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Greenland ‘proud’ its role in U.S. security recognised as air base sore point resolved
By Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The United States and Greenland have agreed to strengthen economic and trade ties after resolving a dispute over a service contract to a U.S. air base in t...
Oct 29, 2020
West Bank Palestinians’ olive trees burn as U.N. urges protection for harvest
By Ali Sawafta and Rami Ayyub BURQA, West Bank (Reuters) - For many West Bank Palestinians, the olive tree is both a revered cultural emblem and an economic necessity - but it has also become a focal ...
Oct 29, 2020
Factbox: Key details from fifth plenum of China’s Communist Party
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Central Committee, the largest of the ruling Communist Party's top decision-making bodies, have concluded a four-day meeting on China's economi...
Oct 29, 2020
Chinese, U.S. military chiefs hold crisis communication, says China defence ministry
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese and U.S. military chiefs held talks on crisis communication this week, amid heightened tensions between the two military superpowers this year in the South China Sea, with ...
Oct 29, 2020
Suspected Islamists kill 18, torch church in east Congo
BENI, Congo (Reuters) - Assailants killed at least 18 people and burned down a church in a village in eastern Congo on Wednesday night, a civil rights group and local committee said, blaming fighters ...
Oct 29, 2020
UK’s Labour responsible for unlawful harassment over anti-Semitism, report says
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's main opposition Labour party was responsible for unlawful harassment and discrimination in its handling of allegations of anti-Semitism under the previous leadership of le...
Oct 29, 2020
Britain pressed to follow French and German lockdowns as COVID rates surge
By Kate Holton and Madeline Chambers LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) - Britain resisted pressure on Thursday to impose a second nationwide lockdown after France and Germany ordered sweeping restrictions on so...
Oct 29, 2020
Tanzania’s opposition candidate calls election a ‘travesty’
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzania's leading opposition presidential candidate on Thursday asked countries around the world not to recognise the eventual results of an election held the previous day, callin...
Oct 29, 2020
China’s Communist Party says it wants to strengthen national security
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Communist Party said it wants to strengthen national security capabilities, state media reported on Thursday. The party's leadership also said at a four-day meeting that it...
Oct 29, 2020
Vietnam says release of U.S. citizen was for humanitarian reasons
HANOI (Reuters) - The release last week of Michael Nguyen, a U.S. citizen who was sentenced to 12 years in a Vietnamese prison for attempting to overthrow the state, was for humanitarian reasons, Viet...
Oct 29, 2020
