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By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s subway operator, bus and ferry companies, and one of its biggest supermarket chains, are cutting back services due to a worsening COVID-19 outbreak that has seen daily infections explode since early February. The surge in cases and mixed messaging from government officials have triggered an exodus …

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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen bestowed a presidential honour on former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday for his contribution to boosting relations with the island, as China’s top newspaper lambasted him again as a “liar”. China placed sanctions on Pompeo when he left office at the end of the Trump …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is “very open” to imposing sanctions on Russia’s oil and gas industry as it also weighs the potential market impact, the White House said on Wednesday, as U.S. crude prices hit a near 11-year high and supply disruptions mounted. In television interviews, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that while …

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By Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Landay UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to reprimand Russia for invading Ukraine and demanded that Moscow stop fighting and withdraw its military forces, an action that aims to diplomatically isolate Russia at the world body. The resolution, supported by 141 of the assembly’s …

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By Natalia Zinets and Pavel Polityuk LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia is aiming to erase Ukraine, its history and people, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video on Wednesday as the seventh day of Moscow’s invasion of its neighbour started with heavy shelling of the Black Sea port of Mariupol. Moscow switched to strikes on Ukrainian …

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By James Pearson and Raphael Satter LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Warnings that pro-Russian ransomware gangs would snarl networks in Ukraine and its allies have so far failed to materialise amid disarray among the criminal underworld often behind such attacks and fears insurers would not pay out. Conti, one of the most notorious Russia-based cybercrime groups known …

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By Aleksandar Vasovic KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday Russia must stop bombing Ukrainian cities before meaningful talks on a ceasefire could start, as a first round of negotiations this week had yielded scant progress. Speaking in an interview in a heavily guarded government compound, Zelenskiy urged NATO members to impose a …

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