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Over 50% recent arrivals from China test Covid positive at Milan airport
Italy on Wednesday brought back mandatory coronavirus tests for all airline travellers arriving from China, following reports of rising infection rates in the world's most populous country, The Guardian reported. More than 50 per cent of people screened upon arrival at Milan's Malpensa airport in recent days tested positive for the virus, prompting the Lombardy region to require a mandatory negative test result before entry from China, the report said. However, on Thursday, Italy's far-right premier, Giorgia Meloni, said no new concerning Covid-19 mutations had been found among those entering the country so far, with about half the samples sequenced.
WH hiring lawyers to defend Joe Biden, his son against Republican charges
But the GOP faces a tough call from the White House whose lawyers have told two leading Republicans that the oversight requests they issued during the last Congress would be invalid in the present Congress and they have to be reissued when the Congress meets in January 2023.
China rail project aims to link Tibet to Kathmandu, may be extended to Indian border
When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Nepal in 2019, he pledged that the 170 km railway route would boost landlocked Nepal's economy by improving trade and transport connectivity with China, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported. There have been speculations that the railway could also be extended from Kathmandu to the Nepalese tourist hub of Pokhara and southern city of Lumbini, near the Indian border, the report said.
China reopens key border port four days after Prachanda becomes Nepal's new PM
Amid a ceremony held on Wednesday, officials from the Department of Commerce of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China announced that the Rasuwagadhi- Kerung-Jilong border port resumed its operation for two-way trade. Following the ceremony, six cargo trucks carrying Nepal goods left Rasuwagadhi for Kerung town of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China.
Police in China can track protests by enabling 'alarms' on Hikvision software
Descriptions of protest activity listed among the "alarms" include "gathering crowds to disrupt order in public places", "unlawful assembly, procession, demonstration" and threats to "petition", The Guardian reported. These activities are listed alongside offences such as "gambling" or disruptive events such as "fire hazard" in technical documents available on Hikvision's website and flagged to The Guardian by surveillance research firm IPVM, or Internet Protocol Video Market.
Pakistan's coalition govt undermining democratic process to retain power
The 13-party coalition came to power claiming to be the saviors of democracy. However, it now seems more focused on bringing into action every possible un-democratic move and tactic to maintain its power and complete its tenure, instead of letting the people of the country decide its fate.
Former Uyghur Muslim preacher confirmed dead in prison in China's Xinjiang
Omar Huseyin, 55, was the former hatip, or preacher, at the Qarayulghun Mosque in Korla, known as Ku'erle in Chinese and the second-largest city in Xinjiang. Authorities apprehended him in September 2017 amid a widespread crackdown on Islamic clergy and other prominent Uyghurs, for travelling to the holy city Mecca in 2015, RFA reported.
Russia rains down 120 missiles on Ukraine in biggest attack for weeks
"A massive air raid. More than 100 missiles in several waves," presidential office adviser Oleksiy Arestovych wrote on Facebook, while another adviser Mykhailo Podolyak claimed more than 120 missiles had been fired at Ukraine, Daily Mail reported.
China opens air travel amid Covid surge, experts worried
"International travel will likely surge, yet it may take many more months before volumes return to the pre-pandemic level," Dan Wang, chief economist at Hang Seng Bank China, told Euro News. "Covid is still spreading in most parts of China, greatly disrupting the normal work schedule. Loss in productivity is significant and inflationary pressures in the coming months could be acute as the sudden spike in demand will outpace the recovery in supply," he mentioned.
Fighting in Ukraine currently deadlocked: Spy chief
Speaking to the BBC, Kyrylo Budanov, chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, said: "The situation is just stuck... It doesn't move." After Ukrainian troops recaptured the southern city of Kherson in November, most of the fiercest battles have been around Bakhmut, in the eastern Donetsk region.
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