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Sixty feared dead in bombing of Ukraine school; G7 condemns Putin

8 May 2022 8 May 2022

By Alessandra Prentice ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) -As many as 60 people are feared to have been killed when a bomb struck a village school in eastern Ukraine, the regional governor said on Sunday while Russian forces continued shelling the last holdout of Ukrainian resistance in the ruined southeastern port of Mariupol. Luhansk region Governor Serhiy …

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Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

8 May 2022 8 May 2022

(Reuters) – As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said. MARIUPOL * Ukrainian fighters at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol vowed to continue their stand as long as they are alive. * …

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Taliban order for women to cover faces ‘unconscionable,’ says U.S. official

8 May 2022 8 May 2022

By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Sunday a Taliban decree that ordered Afghan women to cover their faces in public was “unconscionable.” The order from the group’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, on Saturday said that if a woman did not cover her face outside home, …

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Hong Kong’s next leader endorsed by pro-Beijing elites

8 May 2022 8 May 2022

By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong’s leader-in-waiting, John Lee, was endorsed for the city’s top job on Sunday by a committee stacked with pro-Beijing loyalists, as the financial hub attempts to relaunch itself after several years of political upheaval. Lee, the sole candidate, received the votes of 1,416 members of …

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Bombing of school in Ukraine kills two, dozens more feared dead – governor

8 May 2022 8 May 2022

(Reuters) -Two people have been killed in the Russian bombing of a school in the Ukrainian village of Bilohorivka and the 60 who remain under the debris are feared dead, Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the Luhansk region, said on Sunday. Gaidai said Russia dropped a bomb on Saturday afternoon on the school where about 90 …

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Philippines on high alert as all systems go for election

8 May 2022 8 May 2022

MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine police and military said on Sunday they were on high alert as last-minute preparations continued for the country’s general election, even as the overall situation remained “relatively peaceful”. Filipinos vote on Monday to choose President Rodrigo Duterte’s successor, a vice president, 12 senators, hundreds of congressmen and thousands of governors, …

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Russian climber dies at camp on Mount Everest, Nepali official says

8 May 2022 8 May 2022

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin died at Camp I of Mount Everest, the first reported death of a foreigner on the world’s highest peak in the current climbing season that began in March, a Nepali official said on Sunday. Kostrikin, 55, died at the camp, which is located at an …

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Beijing city reports 39 new local COVID infections over past 24 hours

8 May 2022 8 May 2022

(Corrects to show Beijing reported 39, not 38, local COVID infections during the past 24 hours in headline and paragraph 1 after statement from government) BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing reported 39 new domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections during the 24 hours ending at 3 p.m. (0700 GMT) on Sunday, a disease control official at the Chinese …

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‘Stop asking why’: Shanghai tightens COVID lockdown, Beijing keeps testing

8 May 2022 8 May 2022

By Engen Tham and Eduardo Baptista SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai authorities were tightening the city-wide COVID lockdown they imposed more than a month ago, prolonging into late May an ordeal that China’s capital Beijing was desperate to avoid by turning mass testing into an almost daily routine. The commercial hub of 25 million was making a …

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Shanghai tightens lockdown to hit zero-COVID goal by late May – sources

8 May 2022 8 May 2022

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Shanghai is tightening its already strict COVID-19 lockdown in a fresh push to eliminate infections outside quarantined areas of China’s biggest city by late this month, people familiar with the matter said. Curbs will likely vary across the city’s 16 districts as some have already hit the target, but the people said …

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