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Ecuador sees trade deal with China at end of year, debt talks to begin

6 Feb 2022 6 Feb 2022

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador expects to pull together a trade deal with China at the end of this year and will begin formal debt re-negotiations with the Asian country, Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso said on Saturday, after a Beijing visit with his counterpart Xi Jinping. China became Ecuador’s top lender over the last …

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S.Korea surpasses 1 million total COVID cases with daily record

6 Feb 2022 6 Feb 2022

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea on Sunday surpassed one million cumulative COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, as health officials reported a daily record of 38,691 new infections driven by an Omicron variant outbreak. South Korea saw its first confirmed COVID-19 case on January 20, 2020, and soon became the first country outside China to …

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Pakistan says it has killed 20 insurgents in three days of clashes

5 Feb 2022 5 Feb 2022

By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Twenty militants and nine soldiers were killed in recent days during insurgent attacks on two military bases in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province and the military’s response, the military said on Saturday. The attacks, the biggest in recent years by ethnic Baloch insurgents, began on Wednesday night. “A total …

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Olympics-Short track-China kick off Games in style with mixed team relay gold

5 Feb 2022 5 Feb 2022

By Julien Pretot and Krystal Hu BEIJING (Reuters) -China kicked off their home Winter Olympics in style when they claimed the short track speed skating mixed-team relay title in dramatic fashion on Saturday. Ren Ziwei, Wu Dajing, Fan Kexin and Qu Chunyu clocked two minutes 37.348 seconds over 2,000 metres in the final to beat …

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Golf-School’s out for 14-year-old Thai amateur Chantananuwat

5 Feb 2022 5 Feb 2022

(Reuters) – Most kids would be star-struck by simply watching the best professional golfers up close but 14-year-old Ratchanon Chantananuwat went much further by becoming the only amateur to make the cut at the Saudi International on Saturday. The Thai has made the cut on Asian Tour events before but even as his rivals out-drive …

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WHO chief says discussed collaboration on COVID origins with Chinese premier

5 Feb 2022 5 Feb 2022

ZURICH (Reuters) – The head of the World Health Organization said on Saturday he had discussed with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang the need for stronger collaboration on the origins of COVID-19, a subject of controversy that has strained Beijing’s relations with the West. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has previously pressed China to be more forthcoming with …

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Olympics-Short track-Hwang makes 1,000 metres quarter-finals in record time

5 Feb 2022 5 Feb 2022

BEIJING (Reuters) – Hwang Dae-heon added the Olympic record to his world best time as he qualified for the quarter-finals of the short track speed skating 1,000 metres event at the Beijing Games on Saturday. Hwang dominated a tightly-contested heat in one minute 23.042 seconds to beat the mark set by Canada’s Charles Hamelin in …

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Malaysia’s daily COVID cases hit four-month high

5 Feb 2022 5 Feb 2022

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia reported 9,117 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday, the highest daily figure in four months, due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant. The new cases bring the total number of infections since the start of the pandemic to 2,904,131. Malaysia has also reported over 32,000 deaths. Noor Hisham Abdullah, the director …

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Japan’s daily coronavirus tally at record high – NHK

5 Feb 2022 5 Feb 2022

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan hit a record single-day number of COVID-19 cases on Saturday, public broadcaster NHK said, as the Omicron variant continued to spread. The country’s daily virus cases exceeded 100,000 cases, marking a fresh high, NHK reported. Most regions in Japan are now under infection control measures to try to blunt the spread …

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Increased COVID cases at Beijing Games no reason for concern, organisers say

5 Feb 2022 5 Feb 2022

By Karolos Grohmann BEIJING (Reuters) – COVID-19 cases inside Beijing’s Winter Olympic Games bubble hit the second highest since arrivals began after 45 new cases were detected on Feb. 4, but organisers say the situation is under control and cases confined to the ‘closed loop’. The cases among Olympics-related personnel were up from 21 a …

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