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Analysis: After the cheers come jeers for Germany’s Merkel over COVID-19
By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel banged the podium in frustration as she implored Germans this month to reduce social contacts to curb the spread of COVID-19. At one po...
Dec 16, 2020
Ex-Vatican envoy to France gets 8-month suspended sentence for sexual harassment -AFP
PARIS (Reuters) - A French court has found former Vatican ambassador to France Luigi Ventura guilty of sexual harassment against five men in 2018 and 2019 and given him an eight-month suspended senten...
Dec 16, 2020
Exclusive: WHO-led team expected in China in January to probe COVID-19 origins – experts
By Stephanie Nebehay and Nikolaj Skydsgaard GENEVA/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - An international mission led by the World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to go to China in the first week of January to...
Dec 16, 2020
Armenia opposition calls for Dec. 22 strike to demand PM’s exit over ceasefire deal
YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenia's opposition called on their supporters on Wednesday to join a national strike on Dec. 22 to press for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who they accuse of...
Dec 16, 2020
Nigeria to immediately reopen four land border crossing points
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will reopen four border crossing points immediately, more than a year after closing its land frontiers to crack down on smuggling, the government said on Wednesday. Nigeria c...
Dec 16, 2020
Canada PM hopes for good news soon about fate of two detainees in China
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday he hoped for good news soon about two citizens who have been held in China for the last two years in what Ottawa has describ...
Dec 16, 2020
Canada signs deal to send first astronaut on U.S. mission around the moon
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will for the first time send an astronaut to circle the moon on a U.S. mission planned for 2023, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said on Wednesday, annou...
Dec 16, 2020
Families of kidnapped Nigerian boys fear time running out
By Afolabi Sotunde KANKARA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Families of more than 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys worried they may be brainwashed or held for years as security forces continued the hunt on Wedne...
Dec 16, 2020
Somalia’s opposition urges Turkey not to send arms to police unit
By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's opposition says it has written to Turkey urging it not to send a planned shipment of weapons to a special police unit that they fear incumbent President ...
Dec 16, 2020
Associate of 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack gang found guilty of terrorism-related offences
PARIS (Reuters) - A French court on Wednesday convicted Hayat Boumeddiene, the former partner of an Islamist militant who killed four people in a 2015 attack on a Jewish supermarket, of terrorism-rela...
Dec 16, 2020
