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Major European powers rebuke Iran over uranium metal plans
PARIS (Reuters) - Three European powers on Saturday warned Iran against starting work on uranium metal-based fuel for a research reactor, saying it contravened the 2015 nuclear deal and stressing that...
Jan 16, 2021
Newsmaker: Rocky road beckons as new CDU chair Laschet seeks to fill Merkel’s shoes
By John Stonestreet (Reuters) - As premier of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous, Armin Laschet has a background in executive leadership lacked by the rivals he defea...
Jan 16, 2021
At least five dead after suspected gas leak at Italian nursing home
MILAN (Reuters) - At least five people have died at a nursing home in Italy from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, local media and officials said on Saturday. The incident happened at the Villa dei...
Jan 16, 2021
Russia to reopen air travel with Finland, Vietnam, India and Qatar: government
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities said on Saturday that flights between Moscow and the capitals of Finland, Vietnam, India and Qatar, suspended since the early weeks of the pandemic, would restar...
Jan 16, 2021
Philippines, China vow cooperation for post-pandemic recovery
MANILA (Reuters) - Foreign ministers of China and the Philippines on Saturday committed to prioritising post-pandemic recovery efforts as senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi wrapped up a week-long visit t...
Jan 16, 2021
Serbia receives million doses of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine
BELGRADE (Reuters) - A plane carrying one million doses of Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine arrived on Saturday in Serbia, making it the first European country to receive the Chinese vaccine for mass inoc...
Jan 16, 2021
Japan’s suicides jump 16% in COVID-19 second wave after fall in first wave: study
TOKYO (Reuters) - Suicide rates in Japan have jumped in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among women and children, even though they fell in the first wave when the government off...
Jan 16, 2021
Greece starts COVID-19 vaccinations among the elderly
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece kicked off COVID-19 vaccinations among the elderly on Saturday, after first inoculating tens of thousands of frontline workers to fight the spread of the coronavirus. More th...
Jan 16, 2021
Turkey says it will renew offer for joint working group on S-400s to Biden: NTV
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will renew its offer to form a joint working group with the United States to look into the technical aspects of its acquisition of the Russian S-400 defence systems it acquir...
Jan 16, 2021
Saudi to reopen Qatar embassy in coming days: Saudi minister
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia expects to re-open its embassy in Qatar in the coming days, Saudi's foreign minister said on Saturday, following a U.S.-backed detente last week in a three-year-old dis...
Jan 16, 2021
