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EU summit goes through night as Poland holds out on climate deal
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders haggled through the night for a deal on the bloc's new climate target at a summit in Brussels, but were still deadlocked on Friday morning as...
Dec 11, 2020
Australia police finds 450 kg of ‘ecstasy’ in excavator from UK, arrests 5
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities said on Friday they had uncovered almost half a tonne of illicit drug MDMA concealed inside an excavator imported from the United Kingdom. An investigation, l...
Dec 11, 2020
Taiwan commissions new coast guard ships to bolster defences
By Ben Blanchard KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan commissioned the first of a new fleet of coastguard ships on Friday, an advanced catamaran that can be armed with missiles during war, as the isla...
Dec 11, 2020
One year on, Wuhan market at epicentre of virus outbreak remains barricaded and empty
By Cate Cadell WUHAN, China (Reuters) - For over six years, 38-year-old Wuhan restaurant owner Lai Yun started most days the same way - with a trip to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, just ten min...
Dec 11, 2020
U.S., allies to raise human rights in North Korea at U.N. Security Council
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly half the 15-member U.N. Security Council plan to raise the issue of rights abuses in North Korea during a closed-door meeting on Friday - a move likely ...
Dec 11, 2020
Ahead of U.N. climate summit, urgent calls to ‘fix the future’
By Matthew Green and Valerie Volcovici LONDON (Reuters) - When the Paris Agreement on climate change was finalized after two weeks of fraught negotiations and years of past failures, diplomats hugged ...
Dec 11, 2020
Bushfires in a wet year have Australia’s scientists looking to climate change
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - In a summer that was supposed to be unusually cool and wet, Australian builder Rob Lye did not expect to be trapped by a bushfire on sub-tropical Fraser Island and bat...
Dec 11, 2020
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai charged under national security law – local media
HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been charged under the city's national security law on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces and endangering natio...
Dec 10, 2020
Australian Uighur family reunited after leaving Xinjiang
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man from China's Muslim Uighur community was reunited with his family, including a three-year-old son he had never met, after Beijing agreed they cou...
Dec 10, 2020
Mexico reopens case of indigenous woman who died after alleged rape by soldiers
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has reopened the case of a 73-year-old indigenous woman who died after allegedly being raped by members of the military 13 years ago during the so-called war on drugs, t...
Dec 10, 2020
