SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Shanghai carried out another round of mass COVID-19 testing on Saturday, this time testing residents at least twice in a single day, as a city official in China’s financial hub acknowledged shortcomings in the handling of the outbr…
Space station’s first all-private astronaut team welcomed aboard orbiting platform
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The first all-private team of astronauts ever launched to the International Space Station (ISS) were welcomed aboard the orbiting research platform on Saturday to begin a weeklong science mission hailed as a milestone in comm…
Soccer-Neil Warnock retires after 41 years in management
(Reuters) – Neil Warnock announced his retirement from football on Saturday at the age of 73, bringing the curtain down on a record-breaking career spanning more than four decades. Warnock, a former winger who started his managerial career in 1980, las…
Exclusive-Sri Lanka to seek $3 billion to stave off crisis -finance minister
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka will need about $3 billion in external assistance over the next six months to help restore supplies of essential items including fuel and medicine, Finance Minister Ali Sabry told Re…
UK says Russia continues to hit Ukrainian non-combatants
(Reuters) – Russia continues to hit Ukrainian non-combatants, such as the civilians killed in Friday’s rocket strike on Kramatorsk railway station in eastern Ukraine, British military intelligence said on Saturday. “Russian operations continue to focus…
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan ousted in no-confidence vote in parliament
By Asif Shahzad and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted on Sunday when he lost a vote of confidence in parliament, after being deserted by coalition partners who blame him for a crumbling economy and fa…
Zelenskiy braces for ‘hard battle,’ UK’s Johnson visits with aid
By Elizabeth Piper KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine is ready for a tough battle with Russian forces amassing in the east of the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered fresh financial and milita…
India says focus is on stabilising economic ties with Russia
By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India is focused on stabilising its economic ties with Russia and is working to devise a payment mechanism to settle trade amid Western sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, the foreign ministry said …
Ukraine and allies blame Russia for strike on station that killed over 50
By Janis Laizans and Elizabeth Piper KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine and its allies blamed Russia for a missile attack that killed at least 52 people at a train station packed with women, children and the elderly fleeing the threat of a Russian offensive in t…
Shanghai widens COVID testing as other Chinese cities impose curbs
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai on Friday announced a record 21,000 new cases and a third consecutive day of COVID testing as a lockdown of its 26 million people showed no sign of easing and other Chinese cities tightened curbs – even in places with no re…