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Kenya’s WTO candidate says she will focus on climate change if selected
By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's candidate to become the next head of the World Trade Organisation pledged on Thursday to integrate climate change issues into the WTO agenda if selected. A...
Sep 24, 2020
Could Egypt’s #MeToo movement be the tinder for a ‘feminist revolution’?
By Menna A. Farouk CAIRO (Reuters) - In just two months, Egypt's burgeoning #MeToo movement has exposed sexual assaults, spurred legal reform and emboldened hundreds of abuse victims including celebri...
Sep 24, 2020
Britain’s Labour accuses government of being too slow with business help
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party accused the government of being too slow to help businesses and employees struggling with the coronavirus crisis, saying many people had already lo...
Sep 24, 2020
Signs COVID cases rising in Sweden again ‘worrying’ says PM Lofven
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The coronavirus situation in Europe is worsening and signs that the number new cases is rising in Sweden too is worrying, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Thursday. "In Swede...
Sep 24, 2020
Philippines says U.S. lawmaker’s bid to halt security aid won’t succeed
MANILA (Reuters) - A U.S. lawmaker's push to block police and military aid to the Philippines over human rights concerns is unlikely to succeed, because of the friendship between the leaders of the tw...
Sep 24, 2020
Kosovo Tribunal says war crimes suspect arrested
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Kosovo Specialist Chambers, an international war crimes court, said on Thursday that prosecutors had arrested suspect Salih Mustafa on its orders in Kosovo and he is being tr...
Sep 24, 2020
German court opens criminal proceeedings against former Volkswagen CEO
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A court in Braunschweig, Germany on Thursday said it had opened proceedings against former Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn examining whether he is guilty of market m...
Sep 24, 2020
Hungary PM Orban says EU commission immigration plan ‘no breakthrough’
(Reuters) - The European Commission's migration plan presented on Wednesday is not a breakthrough, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a press briefing in Brussels according to state TV chan...
Sep 24, 2020
Migrants should be returned to their home countries, Czech PM says
WARSAW (Reuters) - Migrants entering the European Union should be stopped and turned back to their home countries, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Thursday in Brussels ahead of negotiations ...
Sep 24, 2020
Iran’s coronavirus death toll rises above 25,000: health ministry
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 175 to 25,015 on Thursday, the highest in the Middle East, with the total number of identified cases spiking to 436,319 in the co...
Sep 24, 2020
