By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong until recently had an enviable record battling COVID-19, but as an Omicron wave now overwhelms the city, the steps that saved lives are making life unbearable for many of its 7.4 million people. Like an immune system overreacting and harming the person it is meant to protect, …
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By Carlos Osorio and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -Police, some on horseback, pushed into crowds of demonstrators to clear them from the streets of downtown Ottawa on Friday, arresting more than 100 and hauling away vehicles that had been blocking the capital’s core for over three weeks in a protest against pandemic restrictions. Fearing escalation …
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By Paul Sandle and Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -An Atlantic storm battered northwestern European on Friday with record winds of up to 122 miles per hour, killing at least nine people, knocking out power for tens of thousands and shredding the roof of London’s O2 arena. Storm Eunice, which brewed in the central Atlantic and …
By Julie Gordon and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -Police warned protesters occupying central Ottawa of “imminent” action to clear them from the capital and began making some arrests on Thursday to end a crisis that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned was threatening public safety. Truckers opposing coronavirus mandates have blocked roads in downtown Ottawa …
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By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – Lam Foon, 98, sits propped up and swaddled in soggy woollen blankets in a hospital bed just outside the entrance to Hong Kong’s Caritas Medical Centre, waiting for tests to confirm her preliminary positive result for COVID-19. “I don’t feel so good,” she told Reuters through a surgical …
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(Refiles to restore dropped word ‘not’ in second paragraph) (Reuters) -Elon Musk compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Adolf Hitler in a tweet that appeared to support truckers protesting vaccine mandates — and which immediately triggered a storm on Twitter. Musk sent the tweet on Wednesday just before midnight in California, and had deleted …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) -The Hong Kong government plans to make up to 10,000 hotel rooms available for COVID-19 patients as the city battles a surge in cases and local media reported the government will make testing compulsory from March. Chief Executive Carrie Lam renewed an appeal for support from the global financial hub’s 7.5 million …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine accused government forces on Thursday of opening fire on their territory four times in the past 24 hours and said they were trying to establish if anyone had been hurt or killed. It was not immediately clear how serious the incidents were and there was no immediate reaction …
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By Nelson Renteria MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday asked U.S. senators to stay out of El Salvador’s “internal affairs” after they called for an investigation into the economic risks the United States faces due to the Central American country’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender. Senators Jim Risch, Bill Cassidy and …
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By David Ljunggren and Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) -Police in the Canadian capital Ottawa on Wednesday started warning truck drivers blockading the downtown core that they should depart or face arrest, part of a promised crackdown to end a three-week-old protest over COVID restrictions. Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino blamed extremist groups for helping …
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