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Macron defends decision not to order third lockdown as third wave spreads
PARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron defended his decision to hold off on a third lockdown on Saturday, telling the public he had faith in their ability to rein in COVID-19 with less severe cur...
Jan 30, 2021
Costa Rica sees ailing tourist trade stagnant in 2021 after COVID-19 blow
By Alvaro Murillo SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Tourism to Costa Rica will likely stagnate this year at the sharply reduced levels of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, weighing on the economy of the Centr...
Jan 30, 2021
Lithuanian president nominates Belarus opposition leader for Nobel prize – sources
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has nominated Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya for the Nobel Peace Prize, two sources with knowledge of the ...
Jan 30, 2021
Saudi-led coalition destroys explosive-laden drone fired by Yemen’s Houthis, state TV says
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Saturday it had destroyed in Yemeni airspace a drone armed with explosives that was launched by the Iran-aligned Houthi group toward...
Jan 30, 2021
Germany is already ordering vaccines for 2022, minister says
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is ordering vaccines for 2022 in case regular or booster doses are needed to keep the population immune against variants of COVID-19, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Satu...
Jan 30, 2021
UK reassured by EU it will not block vaccine supplies, says minister
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister said on Saturday the EU had reassured him the European Union did not want to disrupt supplies of COVID-19 vaccines to the United Kingdom after the bloc sa...
Jan 30, 2021
Family of journalist Pearl to appeal against freeing of men convicted of his murder
By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - The family of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan in 2001, plans to appeal to Pakistan's Supreme Court to overtur...
Jan 30, 2021
Cuba to quarantine travelers amid COVID-19 surge
HAVANA (Reuters) - Most travelers entering Cuba as of Feb. 6 will be quarantined for up to a week, the government announced on Saturday, and flights from the United States and some other countries red...
Jan 30, 2021
Portugal close to running out of ICU beds for COVID patients
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal said on Saturday it only had seven vacant beds left in intensive care units (ICUs) set up for COVID-19 cases on its mainland, as a surge in infections prompted the authorit...
Jan 30, 2021
Bomb blast kills at least five people in northern Syrian town of Afrin
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and scores wounded when a car bomb detonated in the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, the Turkish defence ministry and local civil defenc...
Jan 30, 2021
