SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The Chinese financial hub of Shanghai said on Tuesday seven people infected with COVID-19 died on Monday. That was up from three deaths on Sunday. For April 18, the city reported 17,332 new local asymptomatic coronavirus cases, down from 19,831 on the previous days. Symptomatic cases stood at 3,084, up from 2,417, …
By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday it had dropped its “Do Not Travel” COVID-19 recommendations for about 90 international destinations. Last week, the CDC said it was revising its travel recommendations and said it would its reserve Level 4 travel health notices “for special circumstances, …
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By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -A court sentenced six men to death on Monday in a mass trial for the mob lynching of a clothes factory’s Sri Lankan manager in eastern Pakistan last year, the case’s public prosecutor said. Scores of enraged workers in the city of Sialkot tortured and burned the man in …
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By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The World Bank is reducing its global growth forecast for 2022 by nearly a full percentage point, to 3.2% from 4.1%, due to the impacts from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, World Bank President David Malpass said on Monday. Malpass told reporters on a conference call that the …
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(Reuters) – Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for unity among her people, according to a source familiar with her legal proceedings, in rare remarks since her overthrow in a military coup last year. Suu Kyi, the daughter of Myanmar’s late independence hero Aung San, is on trial accused of a litany …
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(Reuters) – Global ratings agency Moody’s on Monday downgraded Sri Lanka’s rating to ‘Ca’ from ‘Caa2’, citing the country’s decision to suspend certain external debt repayments. The agency maintained Sri Lanka’s outlook at stable. (Reporting by Shivansh Tiwary; Editing by Devika Syamnath)
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -The U.S. envoy for North Korea said that Washington would act “responsibly and decisively” in response to “escalatory actions” after a series of test missile launches raised concerns that the North was preparing to resume nuclear testing. U.S. Special Representative Sung Kim and his deputy, Jung Pak, met with South …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Talks on Taiwan buying the child version of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have stalled as Pfizer does not have the right to sell it, and BioNTech and its Chinese partner do not make it, a Taiwan minister said on Monday. The sales rights for the vaccine in Greater China, including Taiwan, belong …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The tensions of lockdown have exposed divisions among Shanghai residents, pitting young against old, locals against outsiders, and above all, COVID-negative against COVID-positive people. Shanghai’s 25 million people, most of whom live in apartment blocks, have forged new communal bonds during the city’s coronavirus outbreak, through barter and group buying and setting …
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By Daniel Leussink NEMURO, Japan (Reuters) -Japanese fisherman Tsuruyuki Hansaku was barely out of high school when he served 10 months in a Soviet prison, arrested at sea on his father’s boat for catching cod in what the Russians considered their territory. The silver-maned resident of the northern Japanese fishing town of Nemuro, now 79, …
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