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UK records 6,042 new COVID-19 cases
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom recorded 6,042 new cases of COVID-19, official figures showed on Saturday, and 34 new deaths among those who tested positive for the virus within 28 days. (Report...
Sep 26, 2020
Serbia commemorates daring World War Two airlift mission with monument
PRANJANI, Serbia (Reuters) - A monument shaped like a military transport plane was unveiled on a Serbian hillside on Saturday, commemorating the rescue of hundreds of allied pilots who were shot down ...
Sep 26, 2020
Auschwitz memorial director offers to share Nigerian boy’s blasphemy jail term
LAGOS (Reuters) - The head of Poland's Auschwitz Memorial has written to Nigeria's president offering to serve part of a 10-year jail term handed to a 13-year-old boy for blasphemy. Piotr Cywinski req...
Sep 26, 2020
Congolese security forces thwart rebel attempt to seize mining hub
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Pro-independence rebels tried to seize strategic buildings in the Congolese mining hub of Lubumbashi overnight, beheading two policemen and killing a soldier before security force...
Sep 26, 2020
UK universities grapple with spiralling COVID-19 outbreaks
By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - The University of Glasgow has offered a rent rebate to residents and support with securing food and medical supplies for self-isolating students in a sign of the huge...
Sep 26, 2020
Canadian police arrest man over ‘hoax’ Islamic State activity
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police have arrested a man on suspicion of lying about having joined Islamic State and committed execution-style killings, charging him with "hoax-terrorist activity", aut...
Sep 26, 2020
Modi pledges to use India vaccine-production capacity to help ‘all humanity’
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged at the United Nations on Saturday that his country's vaccine production capacity would be made available globally to fight the COVID-19...
Sep 26, 2020
Poland’s ruling nationalists cement new coalition deal
By Joanna Plucinska, Agnieszka Barteczko and Anna Koper WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's ruling nationalists signed a new coalition agreement on Saturday, ending weeks of in-fighting in the three-party all...
Sep 26, 2020
England’s COVID-19 app does not accept a third of test results
LONDON (Reuters) - England's COVID-19 smartphone app launched to curb the spread of the virus does not accept test results processed in the country's state-run laboratories, hospitals or as part of an...
Sep 26, 2020
Sudan rejects linking removal from U.S. terrorism list with Israel ties
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan does not want to link its removal from a U.S. terrorism list that is hindering access to foreign funding for the country's economy with a normalisation of relations with Isr...
Sep 26, 2020
