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Pakistan court frees Islamist accused of killing U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl
By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A panel of three judges of Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered on Thursday the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, an Islamist accused of beheading U.S. ...
Jan 28, 2021
Portugal is in ‘terrible’ phase of pandemic, PM Costa says
By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal is in a terrible phase of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said, warning that it would be some weeks before things might start to ...
Jan 28, 2021
We want the vaccines we’ve ordered, UK says after EU row with AstraZeneca
By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it must receive all of the COVID-19 vaccines it had ordered and paid for after the European Union asked AstraZeneca if ...
Jan 28, 2021
Syrian businessman Haswani denies links to Beirut blast chemicals
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian businessman George Haswani denied any links on Wednesday to last year's explosion that killed 200 people in Beirut, telling Reuters that he knew nothing about a company lin...
Jan 28, 2021
British PM Johnson heads to Scotland to argue against the breakup of UK
By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson heads to Scotland on Thursday in a bid to stem growing support for another independence referendum by arguing that the COVID...
Jan 28, 2021
China warns that Taiwan independence ‘means war’
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Defence Ministry said on Thursday that recent military activities in the Taiwan Strait were a response to interference by foreign forces and provocations by forces supporti...
Jan 28, 2021
German minister sees COVID-19 vaccine shortage well into April
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's health minister expects the current shortage of coronavirus vaccines to continue well into April, he said on Thursday, as the government faced new criticism over the pace ...
Jan 28, 2021
Yemen ‘Arab Spring’ unity torn asunder by hunger and war
SANAA/TAIZ, Yemen (Reuters) - Ten years after joining an uprising in Yemen against autocratic rule and an economy in shambles, the same activists find themselves on opposite sides of a war that has pu...
Jan 28, 2021
Wanted: Bison rangers for woodland in the Garden of England
By Ben Makori BLEAN WOODS, England (Reuters) - Conservationists in England are looking for the country's first ever rangers to look after European bison, Europe's largest land mammal, which is being i...
Jan 28, 2021
South Korea to begin COVID-19 vaccinations for general public in third quarter – KDCA
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Thursday it would begin COVID-19 vaccinations for the general public in the third quarter of this year, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) dir...
Jan 28, 2021
