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Macau shuts popular shopping mall in race to contain COVID outbreak
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Macau shut down a popular shopping mall adjacent to MGM China's casino resort on the city's main peninsula after several COVID-19 infections were found, as authorities raced to t...
Jul 06, 2022
Goodbye Shanghai: After 16 years, COVID curbs send American family packing
By Casey Hall SHANGHAI (Reuters) - American Heather Kaye and her family, including cat Mochi, are part of a wave of residents departing Shanghai, leaving behind their homes and memories, driven out by...
Jul 06, 2022
In China’s Shenzhen, nostalgia persists for the old days of Hong Kong culture
By David Kirton SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - A trip to glamorous Hong Kong was a distant dream for most Chinese mainlanders in the mid-1990s, but for schoolgirl Tracey Chen in the southern boomtown of ...
Jul 06, 2022
Sydney residents assess flood damage as wild weather eases
By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Heavy rain that pummelled Sydney over the last five days eased on Thursday as flood-weary residents looked to return to homes to take stock of the damage, some for the...
Jul 06, 2022
N.Korea’s Kim convenes conference for strengthening ‘monolithic’ party rule
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened an unprecedented conference aimed at strengthening the ruling Workers' Party of Korea's (WPK) "monolithic" leadership across so...
Jul 06, 2022
Brazil at risk of unrest more severe than Jan 6 U.S. riots, warns elections chief
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil is at risk of facing a more serious incident than the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, said the head of the country's Electoral Court, Edson Fachin, on Wednesday ah...
Jul 06, 2022
Explainer – Inflation to nuclear power: What’s at stake in Japan’s election
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will vote in upper house elections on Sunday that have implications for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's grip on the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and his ...
Jul 06, 2022
Japan’s Kishida hopes to put stamp on premiership in upper house polls
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong showing by Japan's ruling party in upper house elections on Sunday would give Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a firmer grip on the factious party and allow him t...
Jul 06, 2022
Genoa bridge collapse trial to open four years after disaster
By Emilio Parodi GENOA (Reuters) - A trial of 59 people, including former Atlantia CEO Giovanni Castellucci, over the deadly collapse of a motorway bridge in Genoa opens on Thursday in front of relati...
Jul 06, 2022
Simon Hart resigns as Secretary of State for Wales
(Reuters) - British Conservative party lawmaker Simon Hart stepped down from his role as a Secretary of State for Wales on Wednesday, joining a host of resignations in protest of Prime Minister Boris ...
Jul 06, 2022
