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Organised ‘overkill’: China shows off rapid lockdown system after latest outbreak
By Cate Cadell BEIJING (Reuters) - Days after a 17-year-old girl tested positive for COVID-19 in a remote part of western China last week, health authorities said they had tested over 4.7 million peop...
Oct 30, 2020
Exclusive: Russian hackers targeted California, Indiana Democratic parties
By Raphael Satter, Christopher Bing and Joel Schectman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The group of Russian hackers accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election earlier this year targeted the ema...
Oct 30, 2020
France on alert as official warns of more militant attacks after Nice church killings
By Tangi Salan PARIS, France (Reuters) - France's interior minister said on Thursday more militant attacks on its soil were likely and the country was engaged in a war against Islamist ideology follow...
Oct 30, 2020
Killings in France trigger Bangladesh protests against Macron
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Muslims protested in Bangladesh on Friday after killings by a Tunisian migrant in a French church prompted a vow by President Emmanuel Macron to hold his gro...
Oct 30, 2020
Joe Biden says he won’t use threat of cutting U.S. troop levels in ties with South Korea
(Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential challenger Joe Biden said that if elected he will strengthen Washington's alliance with Seoul and not use the threat of reducing U.S. troop levels in South Kor...
Oct 30, 2020
Ethiopia’s election board proposes holding postponed vote in May or June
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's election board has proposed holding a postponed election in May or June 2021, the state-affiliated broadcaster FANA reported on Friday. The government postponed a pa...
Oct 30, 2020
Activists converge on Warsaw for ‘biggest’ protests against abortion ruling
WARSAW (Reuters) - Protesters were planning to converge on Warsaw from across Poland on Friday for what police said would likely be the biggest demonstrations yet against a court ruling that amounted ...
Oct 30, 2020
Montenegro’s top Orthodox Christian cleric dies from COVID-19 infection
PODGORICA (Reuters) - Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovic, the top cleric of the powerful Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, has died from a COVID-19 infection, his office said on Friday. Radovic, 82,...
Oct 30, 2020
Pompeo wraps up Asia tour in Vietnam following prisoner release
HANOI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wound up a visit to Asia in Vietnam on Friday after a tour marked by his repeated calls for help for the United States in confronting security thr...
Oct 30, 2020
National COVID lockdown in England not inevitable, UK minister says
LONDON (Reuters) - A national lockdown in England is not inevitable to contain an increase in COVID-19 cases, British foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Friday, adding that a localised approach cou...
Oct 30, 2020
