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Spain’s King Felipe in quarantine after close contact with coronavirus case
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's King Felipe VI started 10 days of quarantine on Monday after coming into close contact with someone who later tested positive for the new coronavirus, a Royal House source s...
Nov 23, 2020
Pope, for first time, says China’s Uighurs are ‘persecuted’
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - In a new book, Pope Francis for the first time calls China's Muslim Uighurs a "persecuted" people, something human rights activists have been urging him to ...
Nov 23, 2020
Burkina Faso’s Kabore ahead in early presidential election results
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Incumbent Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore was leading with just 12 of around 360 voting districts declared on Monday, the electoral commission said, a day after a presidenti...
Nov 23, 2020
EU’s Michel invites Biden to ‘rebuild’ trans-Atlantic alliance
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A top European Union official, in a phone call with Joe Biden on Monday, invited the U.S. president-elect to rebuild "a strong trans-Atlantic alliance" and attend a meeting with t...
Nov 23, 2020
Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says Houthi attack on Jeddah petroleum products station targets global energy security: SPA
CAIRO (Reuters) - The spokesman of the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Monday that Iran-aligned Houthis have been implicated in an attack at a fuel tank at a petroleum products distribut...
Nov 23, 2020
Congo warlord sentenced to life for war crimes
By Fiston Mahamba GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - A military court handed a life sentence on Monday to militia commander Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka for war crimes including murder, sexual slavery and child soldier r...
Nov 23, 2020
Dutch populist Baudet steps down before election over party members’ racist slurs
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch politician Thierry Baudet, leader of the anti-immigration Forum for Democracy, said on Monday he will step down ahead of a parliamentary election in March following allegat...
Nov 23, 2020
Jordan’s king expresses to U.S. President-elect Biden keenness to continue strategic partnership: tweet
CAIRO (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdulllah expressed in a phone call on Monday with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden "keenness to continue bolstering the strategic partnership between the two countries t...
Nov 23, 2020
Head of Egyptian rights group held in solitary confinement, lawyers say
CAIRO (Reuters) - The director of a prominent Egyptian rights group was held in solitary confinement and inhumane conditions for three days after his arrest last week, his lawyers and the group's foun...
Nov 23, 2020
Canada’s Atlantic bubble disintegrates as COVID-19 cases rise
By Moira Warburton TORONTO (Reuters) - The "bubble" pact between Canada's four Atlantic provinces has disintegrated in the face of rising COVID-19 cases across the country, as premiers in Prince Edwar...
Nov 23, 2020
