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British grandma is first in world to get Pfizer vaccine outside trial
LONDON (Reuters) - Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother from Britain, has become the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine outside of a trial following its clinical ap...
Dec 08, 2020
Farmers protest across India against Modi’s liberalisation
By Manoj Kumar and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Farmers' protests against new laws liberalising agricultural markets spread across India on Tuesday, as farm organisations called for a ...
Dec 08, 2020
China condemns U.S. sanctions on Chinese officials over Hong Kong crackdown
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office condemned U.S. sanctions on Chinese officials over their role in a national security law for Hong Kong as "purely double-standards", stat...
Dec 08, 2020
A year on, markets bustling in Chinese city where COVID-19 emerged
By Cate Cadell WUHAN (Reuters) - Hundreds of shoppers pack a wet market on a December weekday morning in the Chinese city of Wuhan, jostling to buy fresh vegetables and live fish, frogs and turtles. A...
Dec 08, 2020
Turkey orders detention of 304 military personnel over suspected Gulen links: Anadolu
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has ordered the detention of 304 military personnel in an operation targeting supporters of the Muslim preacher that Ankara says was behind a failed coup in 2016, state-own...
Dec 08, 2020
Explainer: What hardline Islamic cleric Rizieq Shihab’s return means for Indonesian politics
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Six supporters of Indonesian Islamic cleric Rizieq Shihab were killed in a shootout on Monday, police said, raising worries the clash could reignite tensions between authorities an...
Dec 08, 2020
India investigates if organochlorines behind unknown illness
By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Indian authorities are investigating if organochlorines used as pesticides or in mosquito control caused the death of one person and hospitalisation of ...
Dec 07, 2020
Taiwan says faces daily threat as U.S. notifies of new arms sale
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan faces military threats on a daily basis from "authoritarian forces", President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday, as the United States announced a new $280 million arms sale packa...
Dec 07, 2020
Hong Kong arrests eight more activists as crackdown on opposition shows no sign of let-up
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police arrested eight more activists on Tuesday over anti-government protests last year, the latest move in a relentless crackdown on opposition forces in the Chinese-r...
Dec 07, 2020
Report into NZ mosque attack faults focus on Islamist terror risks, firearms licensing
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A report into last year's Christchurch mosque massacre said New Zealand security agencies were "almost exclusively" focused on the threat from Islamist terrorism, and the police...
Dec 07, 2020
