Author Archives: Syndicated Content
New Zealand Defence Force, medical team deployed to Niue after COVID-19 outbreak
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Defence Force said on Wednesday it had flown a team of civilian doctors, nurses and defence force personnel along with personal protective gear to ti...
Jul 05, 2022
Stocks slide, dollar shines as recession fears deepen
By Sam Byford TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stocks slipped and the dollar stood by a two-decade high on the euro on Wednesday as investors' fears deepened that the continent is leading the world into recess...
Jul 05, 2022
Shanghai orders city's karaoke venues to shut after new outbreak
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai has suspended operations of KTV karaoke venues in the city as it tries to stem a recent outbreak from one such location, but other recently reopened cultural venues like ...
Jul 05, 2022
Ruined Lysychansk eerily silent, residents remain in bomb shelters, after fall to Russia
(Reuters) - Lysychansk was once a city of a 100,000 people in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, but it now lies in ruins after its fall to Russian forces with many residents still living in bomb shelt...
Jul 05, 2022
Heavy fighting, widespread shelling in battle for Donetsk, says Ukrainian officials
By Simon Lewis and Max Hunder SLOVIANSK, Ukraine/KYIV (Reuters) - Russian troops are engaged in heavy fighting supported by widespread artillery fire as they launch a major offensive for Ukraine's Don...
Jul 05, 2022
Dollar rules as recession fears hit euro, pound under fire
By Rae Wee and Alun John SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The dollar stood tall on Wednesday, holding at a 20-year peak against the euro and multi-month highs against other major peers as higher gas pr...
Jul 05, 2022
Qantas engineers vote on work stoppages as they seek higher pay
By Jamie Freed SYDNEY (Reuters) - Qantas Airways Ltd's unionised licensed aircraft engineers are voting on work stoppages of up to 12 hours and overtime bans from next month after failing to reach a p...
Jul 05, 2022
Macau locks down landmark Lisboa hotel after COVID cases found
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Macau has locked down one of the city's most famous hotels, the Grand Lisboa, after more than a dozen COVID-19 cases were found there on Tuesday, with infections spreading rapidl...
Jul 05, 2022
Thousands more evacuate in Sydney even though heavy rains ease
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A wild storm system that has pounded several parts of Sydney with torrential rain for four days has moved away from the city, satellite images showed on Wednesday, although rivers r...
Jul 05, 2022
COVID and bust: China's private health system hurt by tough coronavirus controls
By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) - On March 24, a court in the central Chinese city of Fuyang announced that a $1.5 billion hospital built just four years earlier had filed for bankruptcy because i...
Jul 05, 2022
