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Russian PM to visit Belarus on Thursday amid political crisis
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will visit Belarus for talks on Thursday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, as Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko faces the biggest p...
Sep 02, 2020
Montenegro’s president accuses Serbia of meddling in election
PODGORICA (Reuters) - Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic has accused neighbouring Serbia of waging "media and political aggression" ahead of Sunday's parliamentary vote in which his pro-Western pa...
Sep 02, 2020
China will gradually resume direct international flights to Beijing
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's aviation regulator said on Wednesday it will resume direct flights to Beijing from eight countries including Thailand, Cambodia, Greece, Denmark, Sweden and Canada from Sep...
Sep 02, 2020
Russian prosecutors ask Germany for details of poison tests on Navalny: paper
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors have asked Germany to provide details of medical tests conducted on Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition politician lying in a coma in Berlin after a suspected p...
Sep 02, 2020
Israeli flight attendant says “shalom” to UAE, bye to airline
BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel (Reuters) - Hedva Opatovsky's first flight to the United Arab Emirates was her last for El Al, the Israeli flag carrier whose routes she has plied through almost a half-cent...
Sep 02, 2020
Afghanistan frees nearly 200 Taliban prisoners to push peace talks
KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan government released nearly 200 Taliban prisoners to spur the start of long-delayed peace negotiations, senior Afghan officials said on Wednesday. The fresh releases are fr...
Sep 02, 2020
Beijing rejects U.S. report on Chinese warheads
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry on Wednesday rejected a U.S. report that Beijing was expected to double the number of its nuclear warheads. The Pentagon said on Tuesday that China is expe...
Sep 02, 2020
Ethnic Mongolians in China protest removal of traditional language in schools
BEIJING (Reuters) - Ethnic Mongolians in China's north have staged rare protests over changes to school curriculums that remove Mongolian language from core subjects, a show of defiance that has led t...
Sep 02, 2020
UK minister surprised by Scottish independence referendum move
LONDON (Reuters) - A British minister said she was surprised by plans for another Scottish independence referendum given the budget deficit in the country and the economic challenges facing the whole ...
Sep 02, 2020
Australian media agree to joint trial for Pell sex abuse case reporting
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian media outlets have dropped their opposition to a joint trial on charges they breached a gag order on reporting ex-Vatican treasurer George Pell's convic...
Sep 02, 2020
