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Lebanon orders three-week lockdown to fight virus spread
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon announced a full lockdown for three weeks, including a night curfew, to stem a rise in COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm hospitals in a country already facing ...
Jan 04, 2021
Greece’s Orthodox Church defies Epiphany lockdown order
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's Orthodox Church said on Monday it would defy a government lockdown order imposed to limit the spread of the coronavirus and open churches to the faithful during the Epiphan...
Jan 04, 2021
Spanish doctors disappointed by slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations
By Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish doctors and health experts expressed frustration on Monday at the slow start to the country's campaign to inoculate people against COVID-19, with only a few t...
Jan 04, 2021
Turkish police clash with students protesting Erdogan-appointed university head
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police clashed on Monday with students who protested against President Tayyip Erdogan's appointment of a new rector at one of the country's top universities, saying the proc...
Jan 04, 2021
Canary Islands sees more than eight-fold increase in migrants in 2020
MADRID (Reuters) - The number of undocumented migrants arriving in Spain's Canary Islands on rickety boats was more than eight times higher in 2020 from the previous year, the Spanish Interior Ministr...
Jan 04, 2021
U.S. Treasury Department issues license allowing some transactions with Venezuela’s Guaido
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday issued a license allowing some transactions with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido despite U.S. sanctions on the country and reaffi...
Jan 04, 2021
Ukraine investigates audio recordings discussing journalist’s murder
By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian police said on Monday they were investigating documents and audio recordings dating back to 2012 about plans to murder a Belarusian journalist who was subs...
Jan 04, 2021
Russia now probing case of helicopter downed by Azerbaijan as murder -Interfax
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian military investigators are now treating the Nov. 9 downing of a helicopter over Armenia as "wilful murder", a more serious charge than the previous "death through negligence...
Jan 04, 2021
Vietnam proposes suspending all flights from countries with UK COVID-19 variant
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's heath ministry has proposed suspending or limiting incoming flights from at least 34 countries and territories that have detected cases of the new COVID-19 variant first fo...
Jan 04, 2021
No breakthrough in talks between Indian govt and farmers to end protest
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian government ministers and farmers' leaders on Monday failed to break the deadlock over the farmers' demands to repeal three agricultural reform laws, and will meet again on...
Jan 04, 2021
