China locks down southern city as Omicron variant surges

China has ordered population of the southern metropolis of Baise to live domestic and suspended transportation hyperlinks amid a surge in Covid-19 instances as a minimum in part related to the omicron variant. Classes had been suspended, non-vital groups closed and mass checking out of citizens ordered. Restaurants are best authorised to serve take-out. Traffic […]

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US Warship Transits Sensitive Taiwan Strait A Week After Chinese Air Incursion

Taipei: A US warship has again sailed through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from China, every week after the Chinese-claimed island reported the most important incursion so far of Chinese air force jets in Taiwan’s air defence zone.The US Navy’s 7th Fleet said the Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur conducted a “routine […]

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