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Brazil registers another 713 coronavirus deaths on Thursday
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil has registered 713 additional coronavirus deaths over the last 24 hours and 28,523 new cases, the nation's Health Ministry said on Thursday evening. The South America...
Oct 15, 2020
Foreign lawyers for ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero say they have been denied access to him
By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) - Foreign lawyers of Paul Rusesabagina, depicted as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, say they have been stopped from seeing their cl...
Oct 15, 2020
Tanzania deploys helicopter to boost fight to douse Kilimanjaro fires
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania said on Thursday it had deployed a helicopter to bolster its efforts to put out a blaze that has been burning on Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, in the East ...
Oct 15, 2020
‘I want freedom’: Thais mass to defy protest ban
By Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - From shops, offices and schools they spilled onto a Bangkok street in their tens of thousands, voicing shock and anger and above all defiance. Thailand's...
Oct 15, 2020
Paramilitary convoy attacked in southwestern Pakistan, killing 14
By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A gun and rocket attack targeting a Pakistani paramilitary escort on Thursday killed seven soldiers and seven private security guards in southwestern Paki...
Oct 15, 2020
Saudi minister stresses bringing Israel, Palestinians into talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The main focus of Middle East peace efforts should be to bring Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table, the Saudi foreign minister said on Thursday in a commen...
Oct 15, 2020
Spain adds 13,300 COVID infections, Catalonia to shut bars, eateries
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's cumulative tally of coronavirus infections rose by over 13,300 on Thursday to 921,374 in a slight acceleration from the previous few days, as the region of Catalonia was pre...
Oct 15, 2020
France’s new COVID-19 cases and deaths rise
PARIS (Reuters) - French health authorities on Thursday reported 30,621 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, up on Wednesday's 22,591, while hospitalisations and deaths linked to the diseas...
Oct 15, 2020
Twenty killed in northern Burkina Faso attacks, says government
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Armed groups have killed about 20 people in attacks on three villages in northern Burkina Faso, the government said in a statement on Thursday. The attacks on the villages of D...
Oct 15, 2020
Spain’s right secures removal of plaque honouring anti-fascist leader
MADRID (Reuters) - Authorities in Madrid on Thursday removed a plaque honouring a Civil War-era Republican premier after the far-right Vox party used a loophole in a law meant to tackle Spain's fascis...
Oct 15, 2020
