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Trump tweet gave Taliban upper hand in negotiations: Afghan peace official tells Financial Times
KABUL (Reuters) - A tweet by President Donald Trump calling for U.S. troops to be home by Christmas has given the insurgent Taliban the upper hand in negotiations, the top Afghanistan peace official t...
Oct 15, 2020
Signs of progress as EU leaders meet to haggle over climate target
By Kate Abnett and Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Signs of progress towards agreeing a new European Union climate target emerged ahead of a summit on Thursday, as leaders drafted a plan to b...
Oct 15, 2020
Greece blames Turkey for holding up foreign minister’s plane
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece accused Turkey on Thursday of deliberately holding up a government aircraft carrying its foreign minister home from Iraq, leaving it circling for 20 minutes before granting i...
Oct 15, 2020
‘Exhausted’ French healthcare workers tell Macron to hire more medics
NICE, France (Reuters) - French healthcare workers protested against exhausting working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday and demanded the government hire more personnel. In the R...
Oct 15, 2020
Nigeria’s army says it is ready to maintain order as police protests continue
By Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's army says it is ready to maintain law and order and deal decisively with any situation created by "trouble makers", while demonstrators calling for an ...
Oct 15, 2020
Kyrgyzstan president Jeenbekov resigns after unrest
By Olga Dzyubenko and Mariya Gordeyeva BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov resigned on Thursday after days of unrest following a disputed election, saying he wanted to prevent cla...
Oct 15, 2020
Czech PM to represent Poland at EU summit: PAP
WARSAW (Reuters) - Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis will represent Warsaw at the European Union summit on Thursday and Friday, as Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki continues quarantine, Pola...
Oct 15, 2020
China angered as U.S. names human rights envoy for Tibet
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the United States on Thursday of seeking to destabilise Tibet, after the Trump administration appointed a senior human rights official as special coordinat...
Oct 15, 2020
China threatens countermeasures for U.S. sanctions warning to banks over Hong Kong
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry said that China will take countermeasures if the United States insists on going down the wrong path, when asked about a U.S. warning to banks over the crac...
Oct 15, 2020
For isolated tribe, Philippine rickshaw brings learning amid pandemic
By Adrian Portugual and Eloisa Lopez PORAC, Philippines (Reuters) - When the pandemic shut Philippine schools, a group of teachers living near the indigenous Aeta people became so concerned about the ...
Oct 15, 2020
