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In Nagorno-Karabakh, a village split in two by a ceasefire struggles to get by
By Artem Mikryukov and Nvard Hovhannisyan TAGHAVARD, Azerbaijan (Reuters) - Ethnic Armenian farmer Lenser Gabrielyan looks with sorrow at his land in the village of Taghavard, now cut off from him and...
Feb 02, 2021
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine 91.6% effective in late-stage trial
By Polina Ivanova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Sputnik V vaccine was 91.6% effective in preventing people from developing COVID-19, according to peer-reviewed results from its late-stage clinical trial...
Feb 02, 2021
Over half in New Delhi may have had COVID, govt survey suggests
By Krishna N. Das and Chris Thomas NEW DELHI (Reuters) - More than half of New Delhi's 20 million inhabitants may have been infected with the coronavirus, according to a government serological survey ...
Feb 02, 2021
Twitter says Turkish minister’s LGBT comments about protesters “hateful conduct”
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's interior minister on Tuesday condemned protesters at a top Istanbul university as "LGBT deviants" in a statement which Twitter deemed as hateful conduct. Students and tea...
Feb 02, 2021
In Algerian mountains, army operation shows persistent militant threat
By Lamine Chikhi AIN DEFLA, Algeria (Reuters) - Algerian soldiers fired high-calibre rounds into a scrubby hillside of the Ain Defla mountains last week, part of an operation against the persistent th...
Feb 02, 2021
Analysis: In China, post-coup Myanmar likely to find support if sanctions bite
By Yew Lun Tian and Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) - Three weeks before Myanmar's military commander took power in a coup, he met the Chinese government's top diplomat in an exchange that pointed to po...
Feb 02, 2021
UK’s Captain Tom Moore visited by family in hospital
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Captain Tom Moore, the centenarian who became a national hero with his record-breaking fundraising exploits, has been visited by members of his family in hospital as he ba...
Feb 02, 2021
Torture, forced labour rife in North Korea, U.N. says as U.S. mulls sanctions
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Torture and forced labour are rife in North Korea's prisons, amounting to possible crimes against humanity, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday, as the...
Feb 02, 2021
Israel sees 6-month Iran nuclear breakout, longer than Blinken projection
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's energy minister said on Tuesday it would take Iran around six months to produce enough fissile material for a single nuclear weapon, a timeline almost twice as long as t...
Feb 02, 2021
Three killed in wave of bomb attacks in Afghanistan
By Abdul Qadir Sediqi KABUL (Reuters) - At least three people were killed and seven wounded in a series of explosions in Afghanistan on Tuesday, after Western countries called on the Taliban to end a ...
Feb 02, 2021
