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Mexican ex-defense minister to plead in drugs case straining U.S. ties
(Reuters) - The former Mexican defense minister Salvador Cienfuegos is expected to plead not guilty to drug trafficking charges in New York on Thursday, in a case that has deeply strained U.S. and Mex...
Nov 05, 2020
Carlos Ghosn’s accused escape plotters face skeptical U.S. judge in extradition fight
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge in Boston said on Thursday she would likely reject a last-ditch effort by two men to avoid being extradited to Japan to face charges that they helped...
Nov 05, 2020
Heavy shelling hits Nagorno-Karabakh’s largest city: sources
By Nvard Hovhannisyan and Nailia Bagirova YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Nagorno-Karabakh's largest city came under heavy shelling on Thursday, three sources working there said, as Reporters Without Borders...
Nov 05, 2020
Spain’s COVID-19 death toll climbs by 368, new daily high in second wave
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain added 368 fatalities to its coronavirus death toll in the sharpest daily increase for the pandemic's second wave, Health Ministry data showed on Thursday. The rise to a total ...
Nov 05, 2020
Austrian opposition lambasts government over Vienna attack intel failure
By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's opposition parties lambasted the government on Thursday over its admitted mishandling of intelligence that might have prevented a deadly rampage in Vien...
Nov 05, 2020
Belarus’ Lukashenko bans return of citizens abroad to curb coronavirus: TV
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday ordered border guards to prevent the return to Belarus of its citizens who left and are currently abroad - with the exception of t...
Nov 05, 2020
Denmark to impose tight regional lockdown after spread of mink coronavirus mutation
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Thursday a hard lockdown will be imposed in seven municipalities in northern Denmark after a mutation of the coronavirus that was...
Nov 05, 2020
Iran foreign minister, in ally Venezuela, says U.S. no longer ‘controls world’
CARACAS (Reuters) - Iran believes the U.S. government no longer can "control what's happening in the world" or show other countries how to protect citizens' rights, the Iranian foreign minister said o...
Nov 05, 2020
France reports new record daily COVID-19 cases, at more than 58,000
PARIS (Reuters) - French director of public health on Thursday reported 58,046 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, setting a daily record for the second time in four days, versus 40,558 on...
Nov 05, 2020
UK PM says there is light at end of COVID tunnel
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday there was light at the end of the tunnel on COVID-19 as England entered its second countrywide lockdown - for four weeks - to p...
Nov 05, 2020
