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Russian excess deaths over summer outstrip COVID toll by more than 3 to 1
By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - The number of excess deaths in Russia between May and July was more than three times higher than the official coronavirus toll, recent government data show, a dis...
Sep 14, 2020
Israeli who killed Palestinian baby, parents gets life imprisonment
LOD, Israel (Reuters) - An Israeli court sentenced a Jewish settler to life imprisonment on Monday for killing a Palestinian couple and their baby in a 2015 arson attack in the occupied West Bank. The...
Sep 14, 2020
Lavrov cancels trip to Berlin for talks on Tuesday: Russian ministry
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov cancelled a planned trip to Berlin for talks on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, citing a change in his German count...
Sep 14, 2020
Prominent Bahrain lawyer gets suspended sentence for ‘inciting hatred’
By Aziz El Yaakoubi DUBAI (Reuters) - A prominent Bahraini lawyer was handed a six-month suspended prison sentence on Monday for inciting sectarianism, in a case rights groups say erodes defence lawye...
Sep 14, 2020
Israel shouldn’t ‘protect’ former Mexican official, president says
(Reuters) - Israel should not protect a former Mexican official believed to be residing there, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday, adding that Israel had been informed of an ...
Sep 14, 2020
Exclusive: Russian paramedics’ accounts challenge Moscow’s explanation for Navalny’s coma – sources
By Anton Zverev and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) - The paramedics who treated Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny after he fell violently ill on a plane last month found no increase in his...
Sep 14, 2020
Germany: Don’t criticise us for being bearer of bad news on Navalny’s poisoning
BERLIN (Reuters) - The fact that independent laboratories in other countries have confirmed Germany's conclusion that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Russian military nerve agent should bring an en...
Sep 14, 2020
‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero declines to plead to terrorism charges
KIGALI (Reuters) - Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, declined to plead to all the 13 charges facing him in court on Monday, demanding he be allo...
Sep 14, 2020
Victims of violence ask not to be forgotten in Afghan peace process
By Orooj Hakimi KABUL (Reuters) - As Taliban and Afghan government negotiators met for long-awaited peace talks in Qatar, around 50 families gathered at a graveyard in Kabul on Monday imploring them n...
Sep 14, 2020
Romania reopens schools under strict rules as coronavirus cases rise
By Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania reopened schools for 2.8 million children on Monday after a six-month closure to fight the coronavirus outbreak, ordering pupils to wear face masks ...
Sep 14, 2020
