HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the city has recorded 53,943 COVID-19 cases in the fifth wave of infections this year, as authorities struggle to contain a jump in cases that is overwhelming healthcare facilities and resources. (Reporting By Twinnie Siu, Farah Master and Anne Marie Roantree; Editing by …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan said on Tuesday it stood ready to join the United States and other G7 industrialised nations in slapping sanctions on Russia, should President Vladimir Putin order an invasion of Ukraine. The confirmation by the world’s No. 3 economy comes as the crisis in Europe worsens, with the Russian leader ordering troops into …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar on Tuesday said Russia and China were providing the junta with fighter jets being used against civilians, and urged the U.N. Security Council to halt the flow of weapons enabling atrocities. Thomas Andrews, a former U.S. congressman serving in the independent post, released a …
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By Jessie Pang and Sara Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) -Yee, a nurse on the frontline of Hong Kong’s fight against COVID-19, recently became one of the patients her hospital had to turn away, after isolation wards, and later corridors, became overpacked with people on gurneys. At home, the 25-year-old spread the virus to her father, …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday he would like to have a televised debate with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, to resolve differences between the two neighbours. The nuclear-powered rivals have shared antagonistic relations since gaining independence 75 years ago, fighting three wars, with ties strained recently over the northern …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said an Australian surveillance plane was doing its job when it was “put under threat” with a laser from a Chinese navy ship, rejecting Beijing’s assertion that the plane came too close. The P-8A Poseidon, a maritime patrol aircraft, detected a laser emanating from a …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong reported 6,211 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, and another 9,369 cases who came up positive in preliminary tests, as the city battles to curb a coronavirus outbreak that has overwhelmed healthcare facilities in the global financial hub. (Reporting By Twinnie Siu; Editing by Alex Richardson)
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will spend just over A$804 million ($578 million) to buy drones and helicopters and set up mobile stations in Antarctica to strengthen Australia’s national interests, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday. Morrison said the funding, to be used over the next 10 years, would bolster Australia’s strategic and scientific capabilities …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China is concerned about the “worsening” situation in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday, repeating his call for all parties to show restraint and resolve differences through dialogue. Accelerating a crisis the West fears could spark a war, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered on Monday the deployment of troops to two …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Tonga was reconnected to the world on Tuesday following repairs to a submarine cable, officials said, a month after a volcanic eruption and tsunami cut communications to the remote Pacific island nation. “People on the main island will have access almost immediately,” Tonga Cable chief executive James Panuve told …
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