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Zimbabwe politician who called for protests denied bail for third time
HARARE (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean court on Friday denied bail for the third time to an opposition politician who called for anti-government protests last month, ruling he could be a danger to the public...
Aug 21, 2020
Happy drink in sad times: champagne-makers gather pandemic harvest
By Elizabeth Pineau and Noemie Olive BETHON, France (Reuters) - Winemakers in France's Champagne region are this week gathering a bumper grape harvest, but there is a bitter aftertaste: the slump in d...
Aug 21, 2020
Northern Cyprus set to reopen Cypriot ghost town on ceasefire lines
ANKARA (Reuters) - Northern Cyprus is almost ready to begin reopening the town of Varosha, the breakaway state's premier said on Friday, a former resort area fenced off and abandoned in no-man's land ...
Aug 21, 2020
Singapore to allow New Zealand, Brunei visitors in first border easing
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore on Friday said it would reopen its borders to visitors from New Zealand and Brunei from next month, in the city-state's first steps towards resuming leisure travel sinc...
Aug 21, 2020
Libya’s Tripoli-based government declares ceasefire: statement
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's Tripoli-based, internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) announced a ceasefire on Friday, a statement from its leadership said. GNA head Fayez al-Sarra...
Aug 21, 2020
After Hagia Sophia, Turkey’s historic Chora church also switched to mosque
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan reconverted the historic Chora church, one of Istanbul's most celebrated Byzantine buildings, into a mosque on Friday, a month after opening the fam...
Aug 21, 2020
Russia’s Navalny, Putin’s nemesis and crusader against graft
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Alexei Navalny has been the biggest thorn in the Kremlin's side for more than a decade, persistently detailing what he says is high-level graft and mobilising crowds of young protes...
Aug 21, 2020
U.N. team meets detained Mali president as coup supporters plan to rally
BAMAKO (Reuters) - U.N. human rights officials met overnight with Mali's ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and other officials who have been held by mutineers since a military coup earlier this ...
Aug 21, 2020
Belarus opposition council members appear for questioning in criminal case
By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) - Two leading members of a newly formed opposition council in Belarus were questioned on Friday in a criminal case that accuses the body of trying to seize power fr...
Aug 21, 2020
Philippines protests China’s ‘illicit’ warnings, coast guard conduct
By Enrico Dela Cruz MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has lodged a diplomatic protest over what it said was China's illegal confiscation of fish aggregating devices from Filipino fisherman in a dispu...
Aug 21, 2020
