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No need for new coronavirus emergency, Japan PM says, as cases hit record
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan does not need another state of emergency to tackle the novel coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Friday, even though it is seeing record high numbers of...
Nov 13, 2020
French PM to seek three-month delay to March 2021 regional elections
PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Jean Castex will ask for a three-month delay for upcoming regional elections, normally set for March 2021, due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has...
Nov 13, 2020
Tanzania’s re-elected leader keeps finance minister Mpango in new government
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's re-elected President John Magufuli on Friday re-appointed Philip Mpango as finance minister, and promised continued reforms to the mining sector to help deliver th...
Nov 13, 2020
Morocco vows to clear Polisario blockade of Western Sahara road
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco will clear the main road linking Western Sahara to Mauritania that has been blocked since Oct. 21 by supporters of the Polisario independence movement, it said on Friday. The...
Nov 13, 2020
Explainer: Asia-Pacific closes in on world’s biggest trade deal
By Martin Petty (Reuters) - Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies are set to conclude talks on Sunday and sign what could become the world's largest free trade agreement, covering nearly a third of the globa...
Nov 13, 2020
Hungary’s Orban likens EU to former Soviet Union if rule of law criteria accepted
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary cannot accept a link between access to European Union funds and meeting rule-of-law criteria as this would be akin to the EU operating like the former Soviet Union, Prime ...
Nov 13, 2020
Five years after Paris attacks, France back on maximum alert
PARIS (Reuters) - Five years after a squad of Islamist killers waged the deadliest attack during peacetime in modern-day France, Prime Minister Jean Castex on Friday paid tribute to those killed, with...
Nov 13, 2020
China warns of action after Pompeo says Taiwan not part of China
BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China will strike back against any moves that undermine its core interests, its foreign ministry said on Friday, after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Taiwan "...
Nov 13, 2020
China says it extends congratulations to Biden
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry said on Friday that it extended congratulations to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, who won the Nov. 3 election that ...
Nov 13, 2020
Bahrain buries world’s longest serving prime minister
DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain on Friday buried Prince Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa, the world's longest serving prime minister, after his body returned from the United States where he died on Wednesday. ...
Nov 13, 2020
