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Iran allocates $150,000 for families of each victim of Ukraine plane crash – IRNA
(Reuters) - Iran's cabinet on Wednesday allocated $150,000 for the families of each of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian plane downed in Iranian airspace in January, the official IRNA news agency reporte...
Dec 30, 2020
Blast, gunfire at Aden airport after plane carrying new government lands, 5 killed
By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN (Reuters) -At least five people were killed and dozens more wounded in an attack on Aden airport, shortly after a plane carrying a newly formed government for Yemen arrived ...
Dec 30, 2020
Indian state’s “Love Jihad” law denounced by ex-bureaucrats, diplomats in open letter
By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW (Reuters) - Over 100 retired senior civil servants and diplomats urged the Hindu nationalist leader of Uttar Pradesh state to repeal a new law criminalising forced religious ...
Dec 30, 2020
Trump pardon of Blackwater Iraq contractors violates international law – UN
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's pardon of four American men convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as contractors in 2007 violated U.S. obligations under international law...
Dec 30, 2020
Thai women gold panners are rare winners in COVID-hit economy
By Matthew Tostevin SUHKHIRIN, Thailand (Reuters) - As the yellowish mud swirls away in the waters of Thailand's Sai Buri river, Sunisa Srisuwanno lifts her wooden pan with a cluster of gleaming speck...
Dec 30, 2020
Turkish court gives 92 life sentences in 2016 coup trial – Anadolu
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court sentenced 92 defendants including former high-ranking army officials to life in jail on Wednesday for their roles in the 2016 attempted coup, state-owned Anadolu n...
Dec 30, 2020
EU looks to new chapter in relations with Britain as Brexit deal is signed
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - With a call for both sides to look forward to a new chapter in their relationship, EU chiefs signed the Brexit trade deal agreed with Britain and sent the text off to London on We...
Dec 30, 2020
Russia bars more British citizens from entry over Navalny sanctions
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it had expanded its list of British citizens barred from entering the country in response to what it described as unacceptable and ungrounded sanctions impo...
Dec 30, 2020
Turkey, U.S. in talks to form joint working group on S-400s, sanctions: minister
ANKARA (Reuters) - Ankara and Washington have started talks to form a joint working group regarding Turkey's purchase of Russian S-400 missile defence systems and the U.S. sanctions stemming from it, ...
Dec 30, 2020
Philippine president’s guards used ‘smuggled’ COVID-19 vaccines: minister
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine defence minister said on Wednesday that unapproved COVID-19 vaccines given to President Rodrigo Duterte's military security detail had been smuggled into the country,...
Dec 30, 2020
