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Senior Chinese diplomat says China will keep opening up
BEIJING (Reuters) - Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said on Monday the country will keep pursuing a higher level of opening up across the board, and will strengthen its commitment to build an open wor...
Sep 28, 2020
Greek police probe aid workers on Lesbos island
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police have opened an inquiry into the activities of aid workers facilitating what authorities said were illegal entries into the country through the island of Lesbos. Greece ...
Sep 28, 2020
Indonesia police fire warning shots at Papua student protest
By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police fired warning shots on Monday during a protest in Papua by several hundred university students opposing plans to ex...
Sep 28, 2020
Hungary and Poland to set up rule-of-law institute to counter EU attacks
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary and Poland will set up a joint institute to assess the state of rule of law across European Union member states so that they are "not taken for fools" over allegations of ...
Sep 28, 2020
Afghan police seize four tonnes of bomb-making chemical
By Abdul Qadir Sediqi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police seized four tonnes of sodium nitrate, used in the making of car bombs and improvised explosive devices, officials said, in one of the largest such...
Sep 28, 2020
France’s Macron willing to meet Belarus opposition leader: government spokesman
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron would meet with Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanouskaya if she requests a meeting, French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Mond...
Sep 28, 2020
France has no plan to order a new coronavirus lockdown: minister
PARIS (Reuters) - France's government has no plan to order a new nationwide lockdown to contain a resurgence in coronavirus cases in the country, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday. Le Mai...
Sep 28, 2020
Wider image: The pandemic, a deadly cancer and my 14-year-old daughter
By Darrin Zammit Lupi VALLETTA, Malta (Reuters) - Strangely, I can't clearly picture the face of the surgeon who changed my family's life. I'm not sure I'd recognize him if I bumped into him in the st...
Sep 28, 2020
‘Music is not a crime’: U.N. experts urge Nigeria to lift singer’s death sentence
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. rights experts asked Nigeria on Monday to release a 22-year-old singer who was condemned to death over an allegedly blasphemous song, and said the sentence broke international ...
Sep 28, 2020
Nobel laureate Alexievich leaves Belarus to get medical treatment in Germany
MINSK (Reuters) - Nobel laureate author Svetlana Alexievich, a prominent opposition figure, has left Belarus for a trip to Germany, but her departure is not linked to politics and she plans to return,...
Sep 28, 2020
