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Greta Thunberg takes climate strike online again as Sweden’s COVID-19 cases mount
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Friday she will stop her regular protest outside Sweden's parliament because of the surge in COVID-19 infections, and return to only campa...
Oct 30, 2020
Congolese husband of Angola’s Isabel dos Santos dies in diving accident: colleague, relatives
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Sindika Dokolo, the Congolese businessman and art collector husband of Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, has died in a diving accident in Dubai, a colleague and two family me...
Oct 30, 2020
Malaysia’s Mahathir denies promoting violence with ‘right to kill French’ posts
By A. Ananthalakshmi and Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday denied promoting violence by saying that Muslims have a right to "kill milli...
Oct 30, 2020
Homesick and bellicose, Karabakh’s exiled Azeris yearn for return
By Olzhas Auyezov and Nailia Bagirova BAKU (Reuters) - Gassan Akhmedov has one last wish - to return to the land of his birth, a land he says has been occupied for more than 25 years. That dream came ...
Oct 30, 2020
Callers flood Polish abortion helpline after number sprayed during protests
By Joanna Plucinska WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish abortion rights support group said it had seen a sharp rise in calls to its helpline since activists started spraying its number on buildings, statues a...
Oct 30, 2020
Britain again touts ‘tiered’ approach to COVID as neighbours lock down
By Alistair Smout and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's "tiered" approach to reining in the coronavirus appears to be working, the foreign minister said on Friday, as EU neighbours France and G...
Oct 30, 2020
‘Eat out to help out’ offer contributed to UK second COVID wave: study
By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - The British government's "Eat out to help out" discount scheme to boost spending at restaurants, cafes and pubs over the summer helped spread the coronavirus and...
Oct 30, 2020
China urges U.S. not to be haven for criminals and their assets
By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Friday the United States should not become a haven for Chinese criminals' ill-gotten wealth and it denied that five people arrested in the United Stat...
Oct 30, 2020
Armenia, Azerbaijan meet in Geneva for Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan arrived in Geneva for talks on Friday to resolve a conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, where hundreds have been killed...
Oct 30, 2020
Tanzania’s Magufuli leads presidential race as opposition cries foul
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzania's President John Magufuli is leading the presidential election count, preliminary results showed on Friday, after a contest this week dismissed by the opposition as a "tra...
Oct 30, 2020
