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Madrid residents facing localised lockdown doubt curbs will work
By Graham Keeley (Reuters) - A partial lockdown aimed at stemming a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases is set to begin in some of Madrid's poorer districts next week, but resident's of one of the worst-hit ...
Sep 19, 2020
UK’s Labour ties with Conservatives for first time since 2019, YouGov poll finds
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party has caught up with the governing Conservatives for the first time since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July last year, a YouGov opinion pol...
Sep 19, 2020
Polluted stretch of Manila Bay gets fake white sand makeover
MANILA (Reuters) - Residents of the Philippines' capital on Saturday flocked to an artificial white sand beach that the government has transformed from a polluted stretch of shoreline to mark Internat...
Sep 19, 2020
Taiwan travellers take sightseeing ‘flight to nowhere’
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taiwanese airline carried around 120 passengers on a "flight to nowhere" on Saturday to view the South Korean resort island of Jeju, before flying straight back home, the latest g...
Sep 19, 2020
Germany plans reform to avoid bankruptcy wave due to corona
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany would relax insolvency rules under proposals set out on Saturday to help avert a wave of bankruptcies in Europe's biggest economy, provided companies hit by the coronavirus ...
Sep 19, 2020
Kremlin critic Navalny seen walking in photo from hospital – Navalny’s Instagram
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny posted a picture on Instagram of himself walking down stairs and said that his path to recovery was "clear, although long". He said he s...
Sep 19, 2020
Lebanon’s army finds firework cache at devastated Beirut port
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's army said it had found 1.3 tonnes of fireworks during a search of Beirut port, which was devastated last month in a huge blast that was blamed on a large quantity of chemi...
Sep 19, 2020
India arrests nine al Qaeda militants planning ‘terrorist attacks’
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) said on Saturday it has arrested nine al Qaeda militants who were planning attacks in several locations including the capital New Delh...
Sep 19, 2020
Indonesia reports its biggest daily rise in coronavirus infections
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported its biggest daily rise in coronavirus infections, with 4,168 new cases on Saturday, taking the total to 240,687, data from the country's health ministry showed. ...
Sep 19, 2020
Philippines confirms 3,962 new coronavirus cases, 100 more deaths
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' health ministry on Saturday reported 3,962 new coronavirus infections and 100 additional deaths, with both numbers the highest in five days. In a bulletin, the mini...
Sep 19, 2020
