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Kenya drops charges against officials due to testify against ex-finance minister
By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya dropped charges on Tuesday against two senior former officials who prosecutors said had agreed to provide testimony against a former finance minister and o...
Jan 12, 2021
Greece proposes joint EU vaccination certificate to ease travel
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Tuesday for the creation of an EU-wide COVID-19 vaccination certificate to help restore cross-border travel that has been devastat...
Jan 12, 2021
Kremlin foe Navalny says Russian prison authority has asked a court to jail him
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday that Russia's prison authority has asked a court to jail him for having allegedly broken the terms of a suspended sentence he has been ...
Jan 12, 2021
Snow-struck Madrid struggles with cleanup as record frost grips Spain
MADRID (Reuters) - Authorities struggled to clear ice and fallen trees from the streets of Madrid on Tuesday, and temperatures in parts of Spain hit record lows after a snowstorm wrought havoc across ...
Jan 12, 2021
Factbox: Reports into abuses in the Irish Catholic Church
DUBLIN (Reuters) - An Irish inquiry into alarming death rates among newborns at church-run homes for unwed mothers will hand down its final report on Tuesday, laying bare one of the Catholic Church's ...
Jan 12, 2021
EU seeks space alliance to defend against U.S. and Chinese ambitions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will pursue a more aggressive European space strategy to prevent being muscled out by U.S. and Chinese launcher technology, setting up an European alliance with...
Jan 12, 2021
Inside Israel’s social media campaign to woo the Middle East
By Stephen Farrell, Maha El Dahan, Lisa Barrington and Zainah El-Haroun (Reuters) - Working in close quarters, surrounded by maps of the Middle East, a small team based in Israel's foreign ministry ar...
Jan 12, 2021
Explainer: Why a state of emergency raises concerns in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia declared a state of emergency on Tuesday to try to rein in coronavirus infections and suspended parliament in a move that helps Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin avoid ...
Jan 12, 2021
Uganda orders all social media to be blocked – letter
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda ordered internet service providers to block all social media platforms and messaging apps on Tuesday until further notice, a letter from the country's communications regulat...
Jan 12, 2021
Jordanian sentenced to death over knife attack at tourist site
AMMAN (Reuters) - A state security court in Jordan on Tuesday sentenced a Jordanian to death and jailed two others for their role in a stabbing rampage against foreign tourists in 2019, judicial sourc...
Jan 12, 2021
