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Mobile vaccine team brings relief to Prague’s most vulnerable
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Prague clinic has launched a mobile team to give COVID-19 shots in senior and social care homes, where hundreds of residents will be among the first in the Czech Republic to escap...
Jan 13, 2021
Ukraine says it will hold to account those accused of meddling in US election
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine will do everything in its power to hold to account those accused of meddling in elections in the United States, Andriy Yermak, the head of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's offi...
Jan 13, 2021
Mexico to invoke labor rule to ensure U.S. vaccines for illegal migrants
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will invoke labor provisions in the new North American trade pact in a bid to ensure that illegal migrants in the United States receive coronavirus vaccines, the country...
Jan 13, 2021
U.S. imposes new sanctions on Iranian foundations in last days of Trump’s term
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday blacklisted two Iranian foundations controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and their subsidies, saying the institutions enabled Iran...
Jan 13, 2021
Over 80 people killed in attack in Ethiopian border region with Sudan – state rights commission
NAIROBI (Reuters) - More than 80 civilians were killed in an attack on Tuesday in the Benishangul-Gumuz region on Ethiopia's border with Sudan, the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission sa...
Jan 13, 2021
Denmark to extend lockdown measures by three weeks – media reports
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Wednesday that Denmark would extend its lockdown measures in an effort to combat the coronavirus. "I believe that an extension of the re...
Jan 13, 2021
Review shows Australia made huge miscalculation on funds transfers, Vatican says
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A review of money transfers from the Vatican to Australia showed the amount sent between 2014 and 2020 was a fraction of the A$2.3 billion ($1.77 billion) originally reported ...
Jan 13, 2021
WHO reform needed in wake of pandemic, public health experts say
By Kate Kelland and Josephine Mason LONDON (Reuters) - The role and remit of the World Health Organization (WHO) should be examined in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and reforms will likely be nee...
Jan 13, 2021
Progress stalls in Afghan peace talks as sides await Biden
By Abdul Qadir Sediqi and Charlotte Greenfield KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan peace talks that resumed four days ago are effectively on hold, sources from both sides said on Wednesday, as negotiators wait f...
Jan 13, 2021
Human Rights Watch slams China’s ‘appalling year’ of violations
(Reuters) - China had an "appalling year" for human rights in 2020, a leading advocacy group said on Wednesday, with a crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong, repression of Muslim Uighurs and the silencing...
Jan 13, 2021
