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Emergency authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines needs great care – WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - The emergency authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines requires a "great deal of seriousness and reflection", the World Health Organization said on Monday. Although every country had the ...
Aug 31, 2020
West accepts Moscow was right to approve COVID vaccine, Russian official says
By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) - Comments by a senior U.S. official and moves by Britain towards the possible fast-tracking of COVID-19 vaccines show the West now accepts Russia was righ...
Aug 31, 2020
Top envoy says U.S. preparing tighter oil sanctions on Venezuela
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is looking to tighten oil sanctions on Venezuela in the near future, top U.S. envoy for the country told Reuters on Monday, by potentia...
Aug 31, 2020
Lone revellers brighten Notting Hill’s empty streets on carnival day
LONDON (Reuters) - Notting Hill Carnival, a highlight of the British summer, may have been cancelled this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but a couple of colourful individuals on Monday were de...
Aug 31, 2020
Opening up without control of COVID-19 is recipe for disaster, says WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization called on countries to persevere with restrictions to tackle COVID-19, director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday, saying opening up wi...
Aug 31, 2020
Spain reports more than 23,000 new virus cases since Friday
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain has registered more than 23,000 new coronavirus cases since Friday, health emergency chief Fernando Simon told a news conference on Monday, suggesting the infection rate had d...
Aug 31, 2020
Snowden to testify in defence of creator of Football Leaks
By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) - Fugitive U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden will be one of 45 witnesses testifying in Portugal in defence of Rui Pinto, whose trove of 70 million documents e...
Aug 31, 2020
South Africa’s ANC decides officials charged with graft must step aside
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's governing party executive decided at a weekend meeting that party officials formally charged with corruption and other serious crimes must step aside from their...
Aug 31, 2020
Heads of Hungary’s top arts university quit amid fears of state control
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The management of Hungary's prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts resigned on Monday in protest over the imposition of a government-appointed board which they say will u...
Aug 31, 2020
UAE tells World Court Qatar cannot invoke anti-bias treaty in blockade row
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates argued on Monday that the World Court lacks jurisdiction to hear a case filed against it by neighboring Qatar accusing Abu Dhabi of violating a U.N. anti...
Aug 31, 2020
