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Bluff and brinksmanship: How Britain got a Brexit trade deal done
By John Chalmers, Elizabeth Piper and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - As trade talks with the United Kingdom ground to deadlock on Dec. 9, one European Union official summed up the mood...
Dec 24, 2020
Wife of jailed Kurdish leader hails release ruling, demands Turkish reforms
ANKARA (Reuters) - The wife of detained Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas said on Thursday she expected Turkey to comply with a call from Europe's top rights court to free him, but that the count...
Dec 24, 2020
Russia reopens Soviet-era laboratory to test weapons in Arctic conditions
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has reopened a Soviet-era laboratory to test weapons in extreme Arctic conditions, the military-industrial company which will run the facility said on Thursday, amid a push b...
Dec 24, 2020
A Brexit trade deal at last: EU and UK clinch narrow accord
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain clinched a Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Thursday, just seven days before it exits one of the world's biggest trading blocs in its most significant global shif...
Dec 24, 2020
Half of Russians sceptical Kremlin critic Navalny was poisoned – poll
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Half of Russians believe that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was either not poisoned, as he and Western governments contend, or that his poisoning was stage-managed by Western intell...
Dec 24, 2020
Boats, planes, helicopters: Canada gears up to vaccinate remote indigenous communities
By Moira Warburton TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's indigenous communities have been prioritized for the COVID-19 vaccine but distributing it across difficult and remote terrain will be a challenge, as au...
Dec 24, 2020
Pakistani court orders release of men accused of murdering Daniel Pearl
By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Thursday ordered the immediate release of four men accused of orchestrating the 2002 kidnapping and murder of American journalist...
Dec 24, 2020
Thousands of migrants left without shelter after Bosnia camp burned down
By Dado Ruvic BIHAC, Bosnia (Reuters) - More than a thousand migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were left to sleep in the cold after their camp in northwestern Bosnia burned down ami...
Dec 24, 2020
Indian opposition demands repeal of farm laws after protests
By Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's main opposition party pressed the government on Thursday to call a special parliamentary session to withdraw new agricultural laws that farmers say wil...
Dec 24, 2020
In Brazil, vaccine trial volunteers hope to save lives, not win fame
By Amanda Perobelli SAO PAULO (Reuters) - From doctors weary of seeing patients die to relatives who lost their loved ones, thousands of Brazilians have volunteered for COVID vaccine trials in one of ...
Dec 24, 2020
