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Analysis-Valuing China assets no easy task after $1 trillion wipeout
By Tom Arnold and Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Any veteran investor will tell you that financial markets overshoot when trouble hits, but what if that market is the world's second-largest economy and...
Aug 16, 2021
Hong Kong reclassifies 15 countries as ‘high risk’ for COVID-19
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's government said it would upgrade 15 overseas places including the United States, Spain and France to "high risk" from "medium risk" by Aug. 20, meaning international ...
Aug 16, 2021
The rise and fall of Malaysia’s Muhyiddin Yassin
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin resigned on Monday, ending a torrid 17 months in office as he battled political infighting and questions over his legitimacy, while h...
Aug 16, 2021
MLB roundup: Fernando Tatis Jr. homers twice in return for Padres
Fernando Tatis Jr. delivered four hits, including a pair of solo home runs, in his return from a 13-game absence because of a left shoulder injury, leading the San Diego Padres to an 8-2 win against t...
Aug 16, 2021
Russia will evacuate some embassy staff in Afghanistan – official
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will evacuate some of its Afghanistan embassy's roughly 100 staff, Zamir Kabulov, President Vladimir Putin's special representative on Afghanistan, told the Ekho Moskvy radio...
Aug 16, 2021
Spain’s Spanish and Afghan staff in Kabul in airport ahead of evacuation to Spain
MADRID (Reuters) - All Spain's staff in Kabul, Afghanistan, either Spanish or Afghan, are currently in the airport ahead of their evacuation to Spain, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said o...
Aug 16, 2021
Australia works to get citizens, humanitarian cases out of Afghanistan
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia is working to get more than 130 of its citizens and people who have been granted humanitarian visas out of Afghanistan after the Islamist Taliban seized control of the ...
Aug 16, 2021
Tokyo Paralympics opens wheelchair, limb repair centre in Games village
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Paralympics organisers opened a repair centre on Sunday for prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs and other equipment in the athletes' village ahead of next week's start of the Games. ...
Aug 16, 2021
Malaysia’s Muhyiddin says resigned after losing confidence of parliament
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said in a televised address on Monday that he resigned because he lost the confidence of the majority of lawmakers in parliament. Muh...
Aug 16, 2021
At least five killed at Kabul airport – witnesses
KABUL (Reuters) - At least five people were killed in Kabul airport as hundreds of people tried to forcibly enter planes leaving the Afghan capital, witnesses told Reuters. One witness said he had see...
Aug 16, 2021
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