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EU is asked to approve extra dose from Pfizer vaccine vials
By Jan Lopatka and Emilio Parodi PRAGUE/ROME (Reuters) - The European Union was asked on Tuesday to allow an extra dose of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech to be taken from each v...
Dec 29, 2020
UN rights experts urge Uganda to halt pre-election violence, arrests
GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations human rights experts called on Uganda on Tuesday to rein in violent security forces and drop charges against political opponents and activists arrested in what the ex...
Dec 29, 2020
Pope appoints successor to liberal Dublin archbishop Martin
VATICAN CITY/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's most liberal Roman Catholic prelate, the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin, is to step aside having reached the normal retirement age for bishops of 75, th...
Dec 29, 2020
Girl killed, many injured as earthquake strikes Croatia, Slovenia shuts nuclear power plant
By Ivana Sekularac ZAGREB (Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck a town in central Croatia on Tuesday, killing a child, injuring many people and wrecking houses, officials said. Rescuers tri...
Dec 29, 2020
Coronavirus herd immunity not yet in sight, Spanish PM says
MADRID (Reuters) - Herd immunity against the coronavirus is not yet in sight for Spain's population, although the start of a vaccination program marks a turning point in the fight against the virus, P...
Dec 29, 2020
EU criticises China for jailing citizen-journalist who reported on COVID
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Tuesday criticised the jailing of a citizen-journalist in China who reported on the early outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic from Wuhan. A Chinese court ha...
Dec 29, 2020
French fashion designer Pierre Cardin dies at 98
PARIS (Reuters) - French designer Pierre Cardin, who upended fashion styles in the 1960s and 70s with futuristic looks, has died at the age of 98, France's Fine Arts Academy said in a statement on Twi...
Dec 29, 2020
Spanish police find Nazi memorabilia stash as they arrest suspected arms traffickers
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police found a warehouse full of Nazi memorabilia as they arrested three suspected leaders of an international arms ring that sold guns to drug traffickers along the Costa d...
Dec 29, 2020
Thousands march against Nepal PM’s dissolution of parliament
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Thousands of opponents of Nepal's Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli marched through the streets of Kathmandu on Tuesday urging him to reverse his decision to dissolv...
Dec 29, 2020
Argentina’s senate poised to vote on legalizing abortion, rare in region
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina was on the cusp of legalizing abortion on Tuesday over the objections of its influential Roman Catholic Church, with the senate preparing to vote on a measure that h...
Dec 29, 2020
