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China foreign minister to visit South Korea amid hopes for Xi trip, North Korea talks
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - China's foreign minister will visit Seoul next week for meetings with officials there, South Korea's foreign ministry said on Friday, amid efforts to resume bilateral...
Nov 20, 2020
In Burkina Faso, voters left voiceless amid escalating violence
By Edward McAllister and Henry Wilkins OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Djeneba Sawadogo was making a cake when she heard a noise she did not recognise - a series of sharp cracks that rang across the village o...
Nov 20, 2020
Russia jails man for 13 years for trying to pass secrets to CIA: Russian news agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for trying to pass on secret information about Russia's Northern Fleet to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Russian news a...
Nov 20, 2020
Patriarch of Serbian Orthodox Church dies due to coronavirus
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Patriarch Irinej, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, has died due to coronavirus, the country's President Aleksandar Vucic said on his official Instagram account on Friday. ...
Nov 20, 2020
COVID deals blow to Saudi Arabia’s G20 summit ambitions
By Marwa Rashad and Raya Jalabi RIYADH/BEIRUT (Reuters) - When Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter and a leading U.S. ally, took over the G20 presidency in December 2019, hopes in the kingdom w...
Nov 20, 2020
Lawyer suspended over will at heart of Singapore first family feud
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The daughter-in-law of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew has been temporarily suspended from legal practice after she was found guilty of misconduct in preparing and execu...
Nov 20, 2020
Taiwan to start building new submarine fleet next week
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will start work next week to build the first of eight new domestically-developed submarines, it said on Friday, a long-mooted project to strengthen the island's defences in t...
Nov 20, 2020
Ethiopia’s Tigray rebels fire rockets into city, region government says
By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Tigray rebel forces fired rockets into the city of Bahir Dar in the Amhara region on Friday but caused no damage, the regional government said. ...
Nov 19, 2020
Trump, Xi to meet at virtual Asia Pacific forum as trade spat endures
By Rozanna Latiff and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will attend a virtual summit of Asia Pacific leaders on Friday to di...
Nov 19, 2020
Singapore activist faces fine over one-man smiley face sign protest
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore is set to charge an activist with staging a one-man protest without a permit over an incident in which he held up a sign bearing a crudely drawn smiley face outside a p...
Nov 19, 2020
