FILE PHOTO: People line up at a test site where medical workers in protective suits collect swabs for nucleic acid tests after new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were confirmed in Dalian, Liaoning Province , China, July 24, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS BEIJING (Reuters) – China reported 61 new …
Read More »Hundreds clog the airport when evacuations from Vietnam’s Danang begin
HANOI (Reuters) – The airport in the central Vietnamese resort town of Danang filled up on Monday after three residents tested positive for the coronavirus and began evacuating 80,000 people. The Southeast Asian country is on high alert after authorities confirmed the community’s first infections since Saturday, and three other …
Read More »Belarusian self-exiled presidential contender trusts new ‘Joan of Arc’
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A presidential contender who says he fled Belarus because he feared for freedom and custody of his children told Reuters that the country’s opposition is trusting a candidate he characterized as Joan of Arc in recent days. Valery Tsepkalo, a Belarusian opposition figure who was banned from …
Read More »China’s industrial earnings growth accelerates, signs of strong economic recovery
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s industrial companies’ profits rose for the second consecutive month and at the fastest pace in more than a year, adding to signs that the country’s economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis is winning impulse. FILE PHOTO: A worker welds a steel bicycle tire at a factory …
Read More »Vietnam to evacuate 80,000 people from Danang after virus outbreak
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam is evacuating 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, from the Danang tourism hub after three residents tested positive for the coronavirus over the weekend, the government said on Monday. The Southeast Asian country is on high alert after the government confirmed its first infections in the community …
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