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Melbourne imposes new virus restrictions as Australian Open tennis hotel worker tests positive
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second-most populous city reintroduced coronavirus restrictions from Thursday after an Australian Open hotel quarantine worker tested positive to COVID-19, sending more ...
Feb 03, 2021
South Korea’s Moon pledged to upgrade S.Korea-U.S. alliance in call with Biden – presidential office
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday that he pledged to upgrade the country's alliance with the United States in a phone call with President Joe Biden, Seoul's presid...
Feb 03, 2021
Britain trial to test combining Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines in two-shot regimen
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Thursday launched a trial to assess the immune responses generated if doses of the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca Plc are combined in a two-shot schedu...
Feb 03, 2021
Global vaccine trust rising, but France, Japan, others sceptical
LONDON (Reuters) - People's willingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is rising around the world and more than half of those questioned said they would take the shot if it were offered next week,...
Feb 03, 2021
U.S. reaffirms support for Venezuela’s Guaido, sees no talks with Maduro
By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday reaffirmed U.S. recognition of opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate president and ruled out negotiati...
Feb 03, 2021
In first for Europe, Iran envoy faces sentencing over bomb plot
By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - An Iranian diplomat accused of planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled opposition group is to be sentenced on Thursday in the first trial of an Iranian official fo...
Feb 03, 2021
Colombia launches plan to stem killings of activists
BOGOTA (Reuters) - In a bid to tackle killings of human rights activists, Colombia will boost military operations against the criminal groups responsible and will also send more judges to remote areas...
Feb 03, 2021
U.S. ‘deeply disturbed’ by reports of systematic rape of Muslims in China camps
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is "deeply disturbed" by reports of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang...
Feb 03, 2021
West increases pressure on Myanmar generals as charges filed against Suu Kyi
(Reuters) - The United Nations said it would mobilize international pressure to ensure the failure of Monday's military coup in Myanmar, as Myanmar police filed charges against ousted leader Aung San ...
Feb 03, 2021
On road to ending pandemic, more people vaccinated than total cases to date: data
(Reuters) - More people are now vaccinated against COVID-19 than have been infected by the virus that has swept the globe over the past year, a milestone on the road to ending the pandemic, based on d...
Feb 03, 2021
