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Moscow’s schools to switch to online education due to coronavirus: Ifax
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Schools in Moscow and the regions of Ulyanovsk and Sakhalin will switch to online remote learning soon due to a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, the Interfax news agency cited the E...
Oct 05, 2020
Malaysia reports 432 new coronavirus cases, biggest daily jump
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia reported 432 new coronavirus cases on Monday, the country's biggest daily jump in infections. Most of the cases were local transmissions, the health ministry said on ...
Oct 05, 2020
Malaysia reports one positive COVID-19 case after meeting at PM’s department
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian health authorities on Monday said an individual who attended a meeting at the prime minister's department over the weekend has tested positive for COVID-19. The heal...
Oct 05, 2020
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth expresses support for mainstream media
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth gave a ringing endorsement of traditional media in a message to journalists on Monday, saying they were providing a vital public service during the COVID-1...
Oct 05, 2020
Ireland faces resistance to ‘nuclear’ COVID-19 lockdown recommendation
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's government faced political and business resistance on Monday to a surprise recommendation by health chiefs for Europe's first major second wave national lockdown to preven...
Oct 05, 2020
Crackdown on illegal housing leaves some Egyptians struggling to pay fees
By Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO (Reuters) - In her village in Egypt's Nile Delta, 35-year-old Shaimaa Saleh has spent sleepless nights worrying how to raise almost $1,000 to save her unfinished three-storey h...
Oct 05, 2020
Philippines’ Duterte scores record high rating, despite virus crisis
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's approval rating has hit a record high, an opinion poll showed on Monday, despite a stubborn coronavirus crisis that has ravaged the economy an...
Oct 05, 2020
Armenians, Azeris accuse each other of striking civilian areas
YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas on a ninth day of fighting, the deadliest in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years. ...
Oct 05, 2020
Two rockets fall in Baghdad, no casualties: Iraq military
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's military said in a statement on Monday that two Katyusha rockets had fallen late on Sunday in Baghdad's Jadiriya area, near the heavily fortified Green Zone, without causing...
Oct 05, 2020
Japan PM Suga under fire after rejecting scholars for advisory body
By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is under fire for rejecting six scholars for membership in a science advisory body set up after World War Two, a move critics...
Oct 05, 2020
