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U.S. urges Beijing to cease military, diplomatic, economic pressure against Taiwan: State Dept. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Tuesday that Beijing should to cease military, diplomatic, economic pressure against Taiwan, after China's top diplomat called ...
Feb 02, 2021
Persecution of activists in Venezuela soars, say NGOs
CARACAS (Reuters) - Detention, defamation, stigmatization and harassment of charities and rights activists in Venezuela increased 157% between 2019 and 2020, a group of non-governmental organisations ...
Feb 02, 2021
Noisy anti-coup protest reverberates in Myanmar’s largest city
(Reuters) - The din of banging pots and honking car horns reverberated through Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon late on Tuesday in the first widespread protest against the military coup that overthrew...
Feb 02, 2021
EU needs to resolve problems with Northern Ireland Protocol implementation: UK’s Johnson
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union needs to resolve outstanding problems with the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday as post-Brexi...
Feb 02, 2021
Talks to revive Italian government fail, all eyes on president
By Angelo Amante and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Talks to revive Italy's ruling coalition have failed, the small party that triggered the government crisis said on Tuesday, deepening the country'...
Feb 02, 2021
Dutch PM Rutte confirms lockdown to last until at least March
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Tuesday that most of the lockdown measures in the Netherlands, many of which have been in place since October, will remain in place for weeks du...
Feb 02, 2021
U.S. backed Kurds lift siege of Syrian army run enclaves in northeast
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. backed Kurdish-led forces and the Syrian army reached a deal on Tuesday to end a nearly three week long siege of neighborhoods under the control of the Sy...
Feb 02, 2021
Palestinians begin coronavirus vaccination campaign
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians launched a COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Tuesday, with health workers receiving the first shots after the delivery of doses from Israel and internationa...
Feb 02, 2021
U.S. ‘deeply concerned’ by Navalny sentence: Blinken
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is deeply concerned by a prison term meted out to Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday, and repeated its call for his immediate release, saying it would co...
Feb 02, 2021
U.S. says Myanmar military takeover constitutes coup, reviewing aid
By Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department will conduct a review of its foreign assistance to Myanmar after determining that the military takeover in the Asian c...
Feb 02, 2021
