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YouTube faces complaints of lax approach on overseas election misinformation
By Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE (Reuters) - After facing heavy criticism for not doing enough to stem misinformation ahead of the U.S. presidential election, YouTube announced last week it would remove vide...
Dec 18, 2020
Analysis-U.S., Iran and inertia, an axis to dampen France’s Lebanese dreams
By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - During a visit to Paris last month, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made clear that Washington was unhappy with France's strategy to help resolve the economic and p...
Dec 18, 2020
‘Life is short’: Wuhan’s COVID-19 survivors share lessons one year on
By Cate Cadell and Thomas Suen WUHAN, China (Reuters) - In late 2019, Wuhan businesswoman Duan Ling and her surgeon husband Fang Yushun began to hear snippets in hospital chat groups about a disease e...
Dec 18, 2020
Iran rejects IAEA chief’s call that new agreement needed after Biden takes office -tweet
(Reuters) - Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday rejected the UN atomic watchdog chief's suggestion that reviving Iran's nuclear deal after a new U.S. administration c...
Dec 18, 2020
Lockheed Martin to help Japan build stealth fighter
TOKYO (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp, the maker of the F-35 jet, will help Japan build a new stealth fighter plane its air force wants to field by the mid-2030s to keep pace with aircraft technology...
Dec 18, 2020
Swiss weigh closing restaurants to curb coronavirus spread- papers
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss Health Minister Alain Berset will ask cabinet colleagues on Friday to close restaurants for a month to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, two newspapers reported. Sw...
Dec 18, 2020
China to vaccinate 50 million people for Lunar New Year – SCMP
(Reuters) - China is planning to vaccinate 50 million people against the coronavirus before the start of the peak Lunar New Year travel season early next year, the South China Morning Post reported on...
Dec 17, 2020
Fiji says two dead as powerful cyclone tears across Pacific nation
By Colin Packham (Reuters) -A powerful cyclone pounded Fiji, killing two people, including a three-month old baby, and leaving a trail of destruction across the Pacific Island nation, authorities said...
Dec 17, 2020
Trinidad to impose stiffer penalties on trafficking of Venezuelans
By Linda Hutchinson-Jafar PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Trinidad and Tobago said on Thursday it would impose stiffer penalties on those trafficking migrants from neighboring Venezuela, days after a Venezu...
Dec 17, 2020
U.S. has evidence hackers accessed its nuclear networks -Politico
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which manages the country's nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers gained access to their...
Dec 17, 2020
