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(Reuters) – Russia’s justice ministry has started investigating a museum dedicated to the late president Boris Yeltsin for possible activity as a “foreign agent”, state-owned agency RIA reported on Thursday. The Yeltsin Centre in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg explores the life, work and legacy of Yeltsin, who served as post-Soviet Russia’s first president from 1991 to 1999 and designated Vladimir Putin as his chosen successor. The museum’s steering committee […]

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – Several thousand South Korean and U.S. troops took part in joint live-fire exercises on Thursday, in a show of force after North Korea’s failed attempt last month to launch a spy satellite ratcheted up tensions in the region. The drills, overseen by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, are also being held to mark the 70th anniversary of the alliance between the countries and […]

By Jonathan Allen and Kanishka Singh NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York grand jury voted on Wednesday to indict Daniel Penny, a former U.S. Marine sergeant, in last month’s killing of Jordan Neely, a homeless man, with a chokehold on a Manhattan subway car, a person familiar with the case said. Penny, 24, was captured in videos recorded by bystanders putting Neely in a chokehold on May 1 while they […]

By Jonathan Allen and Kanishka Singh NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York grand jury voted on Wednesday to indict Daniel Penny, a former U.S. Marine sergeant, in last month’s killing of Jordan Neely, a homeless man, with a chokehold on a Manhattan subway car, a person familiar with the case said. Penny, 24, was captured in videos recorded by bystanders putting Neely in a chokehold on May 1 while they […]

By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) – Overseas travel bookings from mainland China are currently at just over half of pre-pandemic levels but are on course to return to the 2019 numbers by the end of this year or early 2024, the head of online travel agency Agoda said on Thursday. China was the world’s largest outbound tourism market before the pandemic with annual spending of $255 billion. The country reopened […]

By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) – Overseas travel bookings from mainland China are currently at just over half of pre-pandemic levels but are on course to return to the 2019 numbers by the end of this year or early 2024, the head of online travel agency Agoda said on Thursday. China was the world’s largest outbound tourism market before the pandemic with annual spending of $255 billion. The country reopened […]

(Adds “Association” in paragraph 19) By Adam Makary CAIRO (Reuters) -Kidney dialysis patients are dying and dead bodies have been left to decompose in a morgue and in city streets as Sudan’s war rages on, despite efforts by volunteers and aid workers to keep critical healthcare running. Sudan’s health sector was already on the edge of collapse due to a lack of resources before the conflict, and it has been […]

(Adds “Association” in paragraph 19) By Adam Makary CAIRO (Reuters) -Kidney dialysis patients are dying and dead bodies have been left to decompose in a morgue and in city streets as Sudan’s war rages on, despite efforts by volunteers and aid workers to keep critical healthcare running. Sudan’s health sector was already on the edge of collapse due to a lack of resources before the conflict, and it has been […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Odey Asset Management is “in advanced discussions” to rehouse funds and transfer staff to other asset managers, it told investors in a letter on Thursday, after imposing exit curbs on key funds in the wake of fresh misconduct allegations against its founder. News of the talks comes in a week of upheaval for the firm after the Financial Times and Tortoise Media reported a raft of fresh […]