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In a Lisbon bakery, Portugal’s president announces run for second term
By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa's announcement on Monday that he was running for office again in next month's election may have been long anticipated...
Dec 07, 2020
U.S. defends how it treats jailed Ghislaine Maxwell
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Prisons said Ghislaine Maxwell is being treated the same as other inmates at her Brooklyn jail, rejecting her lawyers' claim she was subj...
Dec 07, 2020
Greece to keep schools, restaurants shut until after Christmas
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece said on Monday that it will not re-open schools, restaurants and courts until Jan. 7, effectively extending most of the restrictions the country imposed last month to contain...
Dec 07, 2020
WHO hopes to visit China as soon as possible to study coronavirus origins
GENEVA/ZURICH (Reuters) - The World Health Organization wants to visit China "as soon as possible" to study the origins of the new coronavirus, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. "W...
Dec 07, 2020
Chile announces fresh lockdowns, as president snapped without mask
By Aislinn Laing and Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's health authorities on Monday announced a fresh lockdown in the capital Santiago after coronavirus cases spiked 18% in the past week. He...
Dec 07, 2020
Chechnya buries teenager who beheaded French school teacher – rights adviser
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A teenager who beheaded a French school teacher in a killing that convulsed France has been buried in his native Chechnya after his relatives repatriated his body, a local human rig...
Dec 07, 2020
Protester killed in Iraq’s Kurdistan region after days of unrest
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A protester was shot dead during demonstrations against Kurdish political parties in the northern, Kurdish-run region of Iraq on Monday after several days of unrest, local medical ...
Dec 07, 2020
U.S. imposes sanctions on 14 Chinese officials over Hong Kong crackdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on 14 Chinese officials on Monday, the U.S. Treasury's website showed, in new designations linked to Beijing's disqualification of ...
Dec 07, 2020
Brazil court ruling throws open race for congressional leadership
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A decision by Brazil's Supreme Court barring the current leaders of the Senate and lower house of Congress from re-election in February has thrown open the race to replace them an...
Dec 07, 2020
This lockdown won’t get Germany through the winter – Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel told party colleagues on Monday that existing lockdown measures in place in Germany would not be sufficient to get the country through the winter, participa...
Dec 07, 2020
