Reuters US Top

By Casey Hall and Samuel Shen SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai authorities on Tuesday began dismantling fences around housing compounds and ripping police tape off public squares and buildings, to the relief of the city’s 25 million residents, before a painful two-month lockdown is lifted at midnight. On Monday evening, some of the people allowed out of …

‘Hard to believe it’s actually happening’: Shanghai to lift COVID lockdown Read More »

By Uditha Jayasinghe GONAPOLA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) -Lasanda Deepthi, a 43-year-old Sri Lankan woman, plans her day around fuel queues.     The driver of an auto-rickshaw on the outskirts of the commercial capital Colombo, she keeps a close eye on the petrol gauge of her sky-blue three-wheeler before accepting a job to make sure she …

Sri Lankan woman rickshaw driver has to queue 12 hours, or more, for fuel Read More »

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will meet U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday at the White House, where she said she expects to discuss ongoing U.S. engagement in the Indo-Pacific region. “Top of mind for us, alongside the situation in Ukraine, is the situation in our region,” she …

NZ prime minister to meet Biden to discuss U.S. engagement in Indo-Pacific Read More »

(Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday his government was introducing new legislation to implement a “national freeze” on handgun ownership and prevent people from buying and selling handguns anywhere in the country. “Other than using firearms for sport shooting and hunting, there is no reason anyone in Canada should need guns in …

Canada’s Trudeau announces legislation to prevent buying and selling of handguns Read More »

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea reported 96,020 more people showing fever symptoms and no additional deaths amid the country’s first confirmed coronavirus outbreak, state media KCNA said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien)

By Jasper Ward NASSAU (Reuters) – The United States needs do more to control the illegal flow of weapons to The Bahamas, the country’s prime minister said on Monday, amid growing concern about gun violence and homicides in the Caribbean nation. More than 90% of guns confiscated and used as murder weapons in The Bahamas …

The Bahamas says U.S. must do more to control weapons smuggling Read More »

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan researchers have developed low-cost air quality monitoring sensors that work in extreme conditions and will allow Uganda to switch from expensive imported monitors in its bid to tackle rising air pollution. Kampala, Uganda’s capital home to two million people, ranks among the world’s most polluted cities, with pollution levels up to …

Ugandan researchers develop low cost sensors to track air pollution Read More »

PARIS (Reuters) -France on Monday called for an investigation after a French journalist was killed in Ukraine when the vehicle he was travelling in, which was being used to evacuate civilians near the city of Sievierodonetsk, was hit by shelling. “France demands that a probe be carried out as soon as possible and in transparency …

Paris demands probe after French journalist killed in Ukraine Read More »

ANKARA (Reuters) -A chief adviser to Turkey’s president told his U.S. counterpart that Turkey wanted “concrete steps” on the existence of what it calls “terrorist organisations” in Finland and Sweden before it would consider their NATO bids, the Turkish presidency said. U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Ibrahim Kalin, chief foreign policy adviser to …

Turkey tells U.S. it wants ‘concrete steps’ from Finland, Sweden for NATO bids Read More »