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Nobel winners get prizes at home while the socially distanced band plays
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Dressing down, the 2020 Nobel winners got their awards in a broadcast aired on Thursday as, thousands of kilometres away and sitting two metres apart, musicians played classical ...
Dec 10, 2020
Exclusive: U.S. sanctions on Turkey over Russian defense system are imminent – sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is poised to impose sanctions on Turkey over its acquisition last year of Russian S-400 air defense systems, four sources including two U.S. officials told Reu...
Dec 10, 2020
Exclusive-U.S. nears sale of four sophisticated drones to Morocco – sources
By Mike Stone and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is negotiating the sale of at least four sophisticated large aerial drones to Morocco, according to three U.S. sources fami...
Dec 10, 2020
France delays planned re-opening of theatres
PARIS (Reuters) - France will not reopen museums, cinemas and theatres on Dec. 15 as planned because COVID-19 infection rates are not falling as fast as the government had hoped, Prime Minister Jean C...
Dec 10, 2020
At home of climate accord in Paris, campaigners demand action
PARIS (Reuters) - Campaigners on Thursday unfurled a vast mocked-up poster in front of the Eiffel Tower of French President Emmanuel Macron turning his back on a planet in flames, to press for more ac...
Dec 10, 2020
UN experts call for release of Saudi women’s rights activist
GENEVA (Reuters) - Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul appeared before a special terrorism court in Riyadh on Thursday, her family said, on charges U.N. human rights experts called "spur...
Dec 10, 2020
Israel, Morocco agree to normalize relations in latest U.S.-brokered deal
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israel and Morocco agreed on Thursday to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the help of the United States, making Morocco the fourth Arab country to se...
Dec 10, 2020
Dutch expel two Russian diplomats for suspected espionage
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands on Thursday ordered the expulsion of two Russian diplomats suspected of spying on the Dutch high-tech sector, the AIVD national intelligence agency said. One of t...
Dec 10, 2020
U.S. sanctions people in China, Jamaica, El Salvador over alleged human rights violations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Thursday announced sanctions against 17 officials of China and other foreign governments, as well their immediate family members, for serious human ...
Dec 10, 2020
U.S. blacklists Chechen leader, others in Russia, Haiti, Yemen for rights abuses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday sanctioned alleged human rights abusers in Russia, Yemen and Haiti including Ramzan Kadyrov, who is the leader of Russia's Muslim-majority Chechnya...
Dec 10, 2020
