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Merkel’s party plans December 4 congress to choose new leader: sources
BERLIN (Reuters) - The executive committee of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) wants to hold a one-day party congress in Stuttgart on Dec. 4 to elect a new leader, participa...
Sep 14, 2020
Relief and fear as Portuguese students go back to school
By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) - Wearing masks and trying to keep a safe distance, more than a million pupils returned to schools across Portugal on Monday, a long-awaited moment for many after s...
Sep 14, 2020
Former student arrested over Delhi riots, to activists’ fury
By Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police arrested a former student leader on Monday for his alleged role in deadly riots in the capital New Delhi earlier this year, to the anger of rights a...
Sep 14, 2020
TRESemmé hair ad angers South Africans still hurting from racist past
By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Sitting in a hair salon as a stylist braids her natural hair, Sana Sebone recalls a time in 2013 when she worked on a construction site and was told her drea...
Sep 14, 2020
UK’s opposition Labour leader Starmer is self-isolating
LONDON (Reuters) - The leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, is self-isolating after a member of his household showed COVID-19 symptoms. "The member of his household has now ...
Sep 14, 2020
Hospital ICUs lean on telemedicine amid U.S. COVID-19 crisis
By Chad Terhune (Reuters) - As the coronavirus pandemic spreads deeper into America's small towns and rural outposts, Dr. Tallulah Holmstrom has seen familiar faces fill her intensive-care unit in Cam...
Sep 14, 2020
Germany could take thousands from Greek refugee camp: Bild
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is considering taking in thousands of refugees from the destroyed Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos as a one-off gesture and hopes the camp can be rebuilt and run by ...
Sep 14, 2020
Russia’s ruling party loses majority in Siberian council targeted by stricken Navalny
By Tom Balmforth and Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW/TOMSK (Reuters) - The ruling United Russia party secured landslide wins at weekend regional elections but lost its majority in a Siberian city council conte...
Sep 14, 2020
Turkish Red Crescent worker killed in northern Syria
ANKARA (Reuters) - An aid worker from Turkey's Red Crescent was killed and another was wounded after masked assailants attacked the group's vehicle near the northern Syrian town of al-Bab, the aid age...
Sep 14, 2020
Salvagers mend ruptures in fire-hit oil tanker off Sri Lanka
By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has initiated repair work on the ruptured fuel oil tank in the engine room of a stricken fully loaded oil supertanker after plugging the leak, the countr...
Sep 14, 2020
