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Sources close to ex-PM Abe say his camp subsidised backers’ party: media
By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office helped cover the costs of dinner parties held for his supporters, sources close to Abe told local media on Tuesday evenin...
Nov 24, 2020
Australia’s most populous state eases COVID-19 curbs, urges people return to offices
By Colin Packham and Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's New South Wales (NSW) state will ease social distancing restrictions and remove requirements for companies to allow employees work from h...
Nov 24, 2020
U.S. Cabinet official postpones trip to Taiwan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cabinet-level head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, has postponed a visit to Taiwan due to "pressing" priorities at home, his agency said on Tues...
Nov 24, 2020
Colombia’s first lady tests positive for coronavirus
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian first lady Maria Juliana Ruiz has tested positive for coronavirus, the government said on Tuesday, but is asymptomatic. President Ivan Duque and the first lady have regula...
Nov 24, 2020
Pakistan gives U.N. a dossier on India after India submits one on Pakistan
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pakistan gave U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres a dossier on Tuesday accusing India of stoking terrorism in Pakistan, a day after India provided a dossie...
Nov 24, 2020
Hurricanes Eta, Iota hit Nicaragua with $743 million in economic losses
MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua suffered nearly $750 million in damage from Hurricanes Eta and Iota, the government said on Tuesday, as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) promised $1.7 billion in...
Nov 24, 2020
Syria says there is Israeli aggression in southern Quneitra
CAIRO (Reuters) - Syrian state news agency said early on Wednesday that there were two "Israeli aggressions," one of in the Jabal al Mane area in the capital Damascus, and the other in the city of al-...
Nov 24, 2020
Biden says he does not want to see a guarded border between Ireland, U.K
(Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said on Tuesday he did not want to see a guarded border between Ireland and the United Kingdom. Biden told journalists in Wilmington, Delaware, that he had d...
Nov 24, 2020
Doctors Without Borders to withdraw from Venezuela hospital due to restrictions
(Reuters) - Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) will withdraw from a collaboration with a Venezuelan hospital to treat COVID-19 patients due to restrictions on specialists' ability to enter the country, th...
Nov 24, 2020
Niger ex-President Tandja, toppled after extending rule, dies at 82
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Mamadou Tandja, a former Niger president who twice won election after the country's return to civilian rule in 1999 but was overthrown a decade later after altering the constitution...
Nov 24, 2020
