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Delivery delays force Portugal to extend first phase of vaccinations
LISBON (Reuters) - The first phase of Portugal's vaccination plan against COVID-19 will be extended by around two months into April, the programme leader said on Thursday, as delivery delays mean the ...
Jan 28, 2021
Pirates who kidnapped Turks make contact to talk ransom: media
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Pirates who kidnapped 15 sailors from a Turkish-crewed container ship in the Gulf of Guinea on Saturday have made their first contact with the shipping company to discuss a ransom...
Jan 28, 2021
Protesting Indian farmers locked in stand-off with police near capital
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Saurabh Sharma GHAZIABAD, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of Indian farmers protesting against agricultural reforms and refusing to disperse were locked in a stand-off with riot poli...
Jan 28, 2021
Between burn-out and pride, Berlin hospital staff grapple with COVID
(Reuters) - Their emotions alternating between burn-out and pride, nursing staff at Berlin's Havelhoehe hospital are knuckling down for another shift as, almost a year after COVID first struck, the se...
Jan 28, 2021
Russian police searching Navalny ally’s flat treated to Beethoven piano recital
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators searching the Moscow flat of an ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were given an unusual welcome late on Wednesday - a spirited Beet...
Jan 28, 2021
Iran says U.S., not Tehran, should act first to resolve nuclear deal row
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - The United States should act first by returning to world powers' 2015 nuclear deal with Iran that it ditched in 2018, the Iranian foreign minister tweeted on Thursda...
Jan 28, 2021
Exclusive: Michel says EU should consider legal means to secure promised vaccines
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union should explore legal means to ensure supplies of COVID-19 vaccines it contracted to purchase if negotiations with companies over delayed deliveries are unsucces...
Jan 28, 2021
Ukraine opens criminal case into meddling in U.S. election
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine has launched a criminal investigation into attempts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office said in a statement on the president...
Jan 28, 2021
Mexican president is well, recovering from COVID-19, minister says
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is doing "very well" and is in the process of "full recovery" from COVID-19, a few days after he tested positive for the virus, In...
Jan 28, 2021
Pope Francis to meet Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric on March visit
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Pope Francis is set for an historic meeting with Iraq's top Shi'ite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, during a trip to Iraq planned for March, the patriarch of Iraq's ...
Jan 28, 2021
