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‘I was going to die there’: Lagos panel begins hearing police brutality claims
By Libby George LAGOS (Reuters) - A judicial panel investigating claims of police brutality and the shooting of protesters began hearing complaints in Lagos on Tuesday in a nation on edge following Ni...
Oct 27, 2020
Arc de Triomphe area in Paris evacuated following bomb alert: police
PARIS (Reuters) - The area around the Arc de Triomphe in central Paris has been evacuated following a bomb alert, a police spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday. He said subway lines in the area were also...
Oct 27, 2020
France urges EU to adopt measures against Turkey at next summit
PARIS (Reuters) - France urged fellow European Union leaders on Tuesday to adopt measures against Turkey, after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan questioned French President Emmanuel Macron's mental he...
Oct 27, 2020
EU warns not enough COVID vaccines for all in Europe until 2022
By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Only a share of the European Union population can be inoculated against the new coronavirus before 2022, should an effective vaccine be available, EU offici...
Oct 27, 2020
U.N. in New York cancels in-person meetings due to COVID-19 infections
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations cancelled all in-person meetings at its New York headquarters on Tuesday after five people in Niger's U.N. mission were infected with the coronavirus, diplomats...
Oct 27, 2020
‘Danger was coming’: lone protester who defied Thai police
By Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Head down, arms spread, one man pushes with all his strength against rows of Thai riot police behind their shields. The Reuters image of the night of Oct...
Oct 27, 2020
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in self-isolation after COVID contact: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is self-isolating after coming into contact with a person infected with COVID-19, the RIA news agency reported on Tuesday. Lavrov's previously...
Oct 27, 2020
UK police given more time to question seven men involved in tanker incident
LONDON (Reuters) - British police were granted more time to question seven men arrested after hostile stowaways aboard an oil tanker in the English Channel prompted special forces to storm the vessel ...
Oct 27, 2020
Turkish court sentences U.S. consulate employee to five years jail
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An Istanbul court on Tuesday sentenced a local U.S. consulate employee to jail for aiding the network Ankara accuses of attempting a 2016 coup, in a verdict that could further str...
Oct 27, 2020
Hong Kong police detain three under national security law
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police on Tuesday detained three people under the city's contentious national security law on suspicion of publishing content to incite others to secede ...
Oct 27, 2020
