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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that the country's ambassador in Moscow, Lynne Tracy, was able to visit Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in prison. "I can report based on what Ambassador Tracy has said that he's in good health and good spirits, considering the circumstances. We continue to call for his immediate release from this unjust detention," Blinken told reporters in Japan after G7 talks. SOUNDBITE
Images of a quiet Shanghai street Tuesday morning. Since March, more than 100,000 cases in Shanghai have led to a lockdown of the city's 25 million inhabitants. The United States announced it had ordered all non-essential employees at its Shanghai consulate to leave, while voicing concerns for the safety of Americans in China as the government enforces hard lockdowns to contain Covid-19. IMAGES
Images of reduced traffic on a street in China's largest city Shanghai under a lattice of restrictions -- which fall short of a citywide shutdown. China reported 5,280 new Covid-19 cases nationwide on Tuesday, more than double the previous day's tally as the highly-transmissible Omicron variant spreads across a country which has tethered tightly to a 'zero-Covid' strategy. IMAGES
New York, Oct 15 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Justin Lane) Wall Street opened Friday in green and the Dow Jones of Industrialists, its main indicator, rose 0.83% encouraged by the quarterly reports from large US banks.
Madrid, Oct 4 (EFE) .- (Camera: Ana Bornay) The Spanish stock market fell 0.09% this Monday, affected by the fall in Wall Street, which did not take advantage of the 3% rise in the price of oil, according to data From the market.