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Sri Lanka court extends travel ban on Mahinda and Basil Rajapaksa – broadcaster Newsfirst
(Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Supreme Court extended a travel ban on former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, brothers of ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to Aug. 2, n...
Jul 27, 2022
No new daily COVID cases in Macau for first time in over a month
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Authorities in Macau reported no new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday for the first time since mid-June, after the city's worst outbreak of the disease led to a 12-day closure of...
Jul 27, 2022
Corruption convictions no bar to running in Kenya’s elections
By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - A member of parliament fined $7 million for corruption and handed a 67-year jail term; a top civil servant with an asset seizure order against her; lawmakers c...
Jul 27, 2022
Prime ministerial hopeful Sunak pitches UK energy bill tax cuts
LONDON (Reuters) - Rishi Sunak, trailing in the race to become Britain's prime minister, pledged on Wednesday to temporarily scrap taxes on energy bills paid by households, part of a "winter plan" to ...
Jul 27, 2022
S.Korea PM says he will recommend special pardon for Samsung’s Lee to president -Yonhap
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's prime minister said on Wednesday he will recommend a special pardon for Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee to President Yoon Suk-yeol, Yonhap news agency repo...
Jul 27, 2022
Russian firm Wagner made tactical advances in Donbas – UK intelligence
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian private military firm Wagner has likely made tactical advances in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, British military intelligence said on Wednesday. The advances were ma...
Jul 27, 2022
Death toll in Philippines quake rises to 4, with 60 injured
MANILA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake in northern Philippines has killed four people and injured 60, the interior minister said on Wednesday. Two people died in Benguet province, one in Abra province...
Jul 27, 2022
Ukrainian president nominates lawmaker Kostin to be next prosecutor general
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has nominated Andriy Kostin, a lawmaker from the president's political party, to be the country's next prosecutor general. Zelenskiy submitted ...
Jul 27, 2022
Monkeypox emergency could last months, with window closing to stop spread, experts say
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists advising the World Health Organization (WHO) on monkeypox say the window is closing to stop its spread, with cases currently doubling every two weeks, r...
Jul 27, 2022
Toll rises to 38 in Indian spurious liquor incident
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - At least 10 more people have died in India's western state of Gujarat after having drunk spurious liquor, taking the toll in the incident to 38, state officials said on We...
Jul 27, 2022
