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Canada PM Trudeau won’t comment on possible Meng release, says priority is detainees in China
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday declined to comment on talks between the U.S. Justice Department and lawyers that could lead to the release of a senior Huawei curre...
Dec 04, 2020
U.N. warns 2021 shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a "stampede for vaccines" to combat the coronavi...
Dec 04, 2020
Pompeo says violence levels in Afghanistan ‘unacceptably high’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The violence currently taking place in Afghanistan is 'unacceptably high', U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday, adding that Washington has asked the warring parti...
Dec 04, 2020
War in Ethiopia’s Tigray wrenches families apart
By Seham Eloraby and Baz Ratner UM RAKUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Ethiopian farmer Gebrahid Welderfael said he last saw his wife and 18-year-old daughter in the sewer in his village in the Tigray region wh...
Dec 04, 2020
WHO’s Tedros says concerned about perception pandemic is over
GENEVA (Reuters) - Recent progress on COVID-19 vaccines is positive but the World Health Organization is concerned this has led to a growing perception that the pandemic has come to an end, WHO Direct...
Dec 04, 2020
France to launch platform to flag excessive police checks, Macron says
PARIS (Reuters) - France will launch an online platform next year for people to flag any unnecessary checks by police, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday. "On police checks, we will set up a nat...
Dec 04, 2020
Former Malta PM says he had no indication of journalist murder plot
By Chris Scicluna VALLETTA (Reuters) - Former Malta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told a board of inquiry on Friday that he had no prior indication of any plans for the 2017 murder of anti-corruption j...
Dec 04, 2020
Peru mine workers join in protests, cutting off some major highways to Lima
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Workers from the Doe Run mine complex in Peru joined a growing group of farmworkers in blocking major highways throughout the Andean nation, ratcheting up pressure on ...
Dec 04, 2020
Islamic State shadow follows families as Iraq closes camps
By Charlotte Bruneau and Amina Ismail AL-QAYYARAH, IRAQ (Reuters) - Tuqqa Abdullah and her Iraqi family have wandered from one displaced people's camp to the next in the past three years, buying time ...
Dec 04, 2020
Venezuela’s socialists eye congress control as opposition boycotts vote
By Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela will hold parliamentary elections this Sunday in a vote that the United States, European Union and many citizens view as a fraudulent effort by the ruli...
Dec 04, 2020
