By Krisztina Than and Nikolaj Skydsgaard BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Coronavirus infections are hitting record levels in many countries across Europe as winter takes hold, prompting a call for action from the World Health Organization which described the new …
COVID-hit China keeps vigil at borders, restricts local tourism
BEIJING (Reuters) -China is on high alert at its international ports of entry to reduce the risk of COVID-19 cases entering from abroad, and it has stepped up restrictions within the country amid a growing outbreak less than 100 days before the Beijing…
China’s COVID-19 outbreak developing rapidly, health official says
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s latest COVID-19 outbreak is developing rapidly, a health official said, as the authorities demanded high vigilance at ports of entry amid growing infections in a northeastern border city caused by the virus arriving from abr…
Rare plea for help as China’s zero tolerance for COVID hits border town
BEIJING (Reuters) – A former vice mayor of a Chinese town on the border with Myanmar lamented local lockdowns and disruptions caused by repeated COVID-19 outbreaks and wrote a rare plea for a “strong” helping hand from Beijing. Ruili, in the province o…
Slavery-era Georgia law is key defense argument in trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s killing
By Rich McKay and Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – A pivotal defense argument of the three white men on trial in Georgia for killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, is that they were trying to make a citizen’s arrest under a Civil War-era law that was later r…
Analysis-The 1970s all over again? Stagflation debate splits Wall St
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – Phil Orlando has not heard this many people mentioning stagflation since he was a financial journalist in the late 1970s, when oil prices were soaring and inflation stood at more than double its current level. Now …
China’s growing COVID-19 outbreak tests vulnerable border towns
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has reported nearly 250 locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 since the start of the current outbreak 10 days ago, with many infections in remote towns along porous international borders in the country’s northwest. China had 5…
Russian COVID cases hit record high as eastern Europe imposes new curbs
By Luiza Ilie and Gleb Stolyarov BUCHAREST/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reported a record high number of daily COVID-19 cases and some central European countries imposed fresh restrictions on Monday, as a new wave of the pandemic gathered pace. In Asia, t…
Turkey’s Erdogan said to welcome embassies’ statements amid expulsions row
By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Jonathan Spicer ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed statements on Monday by several Western embassies including the United States that they abide by a diplomatic convention not to interfere in a host countr…
World ‘way off track’ in halting warming, UN warns ahead of COP26
By Emma Farge and Gerry Mey GENEVA/GLASGOW (Reuters) -Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is “way off track” in capping rising temperatures, the United Nations said on Monday in a stark illustration of the task facing cli…