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New record in Dutch daily coronavirus cases, 2777: health authorities
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - New coronavirus cases in the Netherlands hit another record on Friday, with 2,777 cases reported in the past 24 hours, according to health authority data. The rise, part of a bro...
Sep 25, 2020
Russia’s Navalny thanks ‘unknown friends’ for saving his life
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said on Friday he owed his life to the pilots who made an emergency landing when he collapsed on a flight last month, and the paramedics...
Sep 25, 2020
COVID-19 outbreak hits EU patrol boat docked in Italy
ROME (Reuters) - Some 51 out of 186 crew members of a European Union naval vessel on Friday tested positive for the coronavirus, the EU's Irini military mission said in a statement, adding the infecti...
Sep 25, 2020
Disgraced cardinal denies wrong-doing, says ready to give life to pope
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - An Italian cardinal forced to quit his powerful Vatican post, said on Friday Pope Francis had accused him of embezzlement, but he denied wrongdoing and vowed he was ready to l...
Sep 25, 2020
‘Like the Stasi’: UK lawmaker slams COVID-era snooping
LONDON (Reuters) - A British lawmaker photographed by a member of the public travelling in London without a face mask has said the COVID-19 pandemic is fostering a culture of snooping that recalls Eas...
Sep 25, 2020
Chain reaction: bikes and pedestrians do battle in COVID-era Paris
By Michaela Cabrera PARIS (Reuters) - Parisian commuters in their thousands reacted to the COVID-19 epidemic by ditching public transport and walking or biking instead, but now they find themselves fi...
Sep 25, 2020
With schools shut, Indonesian bus drivers ferry COVID-19 patients instead
By Willy Kurniawan JAKARTA (Reuters) - For the past decade, Yusuf Iswahyu has ferried Indonesian children in his yellow bus to and from their schools. But with many shut due to COVID-19, the 29-year-o...
Sep 25, 2020
Iran’s coronavirus single-day 207 death toll highest since August 1: health ministry
(Reuters) - Iran's death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 207 to 25,222 on Friday, with the total number of identified cases spiking to 439,882, a health ministry spokeswoman said. It was the h...
Sep 25, 2020
Retired Colonel Bah Ndaw sworn in as Mali interim president
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Retired Colonel Bah Ndaw was sworn in on Friday as Mali's interim president, tasked with presiding over an 18-month transition back to civilian rule following the Aug. 18 military c...
Sep 25, 2020
Severe flooding in South Sudan displaces more than 600,000: U.N.
By Denis Dumo DUK PADIET, South Sudan (Reuters) - Severe flooding in South Sudan has forced more than 600,000 people to flee their homes since July, the United Nations said, after months of torrential...
Sep 25, 2020
