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U.S. ‘outraged’ by rocket attack in Baghdad – state department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is "outraged" by Monday's rocket attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad that killed five civilians https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26J2LD, the U.S. State D...
Sep 29, 2020
Campaigners say Myanmar students face jail over anti-war pamphlet protest
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar student representatives said on Tuesday that 14 students had been arrested and charged with offences carrying up to two years in jail after handing out pamphlets criticising...
Sep 29, 2020
Sex workers say Brussels prostitution ban drives them underground
By Clement Rossignol and Bart Biesemans BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's capital has banned prostitution in certain districts in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. For sex- workers, howeve...
Sep 29, 2020
Former Ukraine president Poroshenko contracts coronavirus
KYIV (Reuters) - Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has contracted the novel coronavirus, he said in a statement on Facebook on Tuesday. "Therefore, from today I am being treated at home. I h...
Sep 29, 2020
Kuwait’s new emir is Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf, says cabinet
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah was named emir by the country's cabinet to succeed his brother Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah who died on Tuesday. The cabinet a...
Sep 29, 2020
Kuwait’s new ruler to seek stability among fractious, powerful neighbours
DUBAI (Reuters) - Kuwait's new ruler in waiting may find it harder than his predecessor to uphold his country's mediating role between rival Gulf powers, if only because he lacks his late brother's de...
Sep 29, 2020
Canada expects to approve new COVID-19 tests soon, government official says
TORONTO (Reuters) - Health Canada expects to authorize new antigen tests for COVID-19 soon, a senior government official said on Tuesday, in an effort to provide additional testing as a second wave of...
Sep 29, 2020
Air leaking from International Space Station but no danger to crew: Roscosmos agency
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The International Space Station is leaking air in above-normal volumes, but the leak presents no danger to the Russian-American crew, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Tues...
Sep 29, 2020
50 years on, ‘Trial of Chicago 7’ feels all about today
By Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It may be set in the late 1960s but "The Trial of the Chicago 7," with its themes of protest, civil rights and police brutality, has much to say about America tod...
Sep 29, 2020
Belarus to suspend major online media outlet Tut.by for three months
MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus' ministry of information will suspend the major online media outlet Tut.by from Oct. 1 until Dec. 30, it said in a statement on Tuesday. (Reporting by Andrei Makhovsky; writi...
Sep 29, 2020
