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UK may be moving too slowly to tackle COVID-19 outbreak, government adviser says
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could be moving too slowly to tackle the sharp rise in COVID-19 cases because of a lag between case numbers and deaths which means fatalities have remained relatively low, a...
Sep 26, 2020
Indonesia reports 4,494 new coronavirus infections, 90 deaths: health ministry
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported 4,494 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, taking the total number of cases to 271,339, official data from the health ministry showed on Saturday. The Southea...
Sep 26, 2020
Suspected accomplice of Paris knife attacker released: source
PARIS (Reuters) - A suspected accomplice of a man believed to have attacked and wounded two people with a meat cleaver on Friday in front of a Paris office building has been released, a judicial sourc...
Sep 26, 2020
Lebanon’s prime minister-designate steps down after failing to form cabinet
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's prime minister-designate quit on Saturday after almost a month of efforts to line up a non-partisan cabinet despite French pressure on the country's sectarian leaders to r...
Sep 26, 2020
Armed militia kills at least 15 people in western Ethiopia
By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An armed militia killed at least 15 people in a pre-dawn attack on Friday in western Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said in a statemen...
Sep 26, 2020
Philippines surpasses 300,000 confirmed coronavirus cases
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' health ministry on Saturday reported 2,747 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections and 88 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 301,256 ...
Sep 26, 2020
Iranian president accuses U.S. of savagery after new sanctions
(Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States on Saturday of "savagery" after Washington imposed new sanctions on Tehran, and said Iranians should direct their anger at the Wh...
Sep 26, 2020
Less razzmatazz, but Nobel Prizes go ahead amid pandemic
By Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The winners of this year's Nobel Prizes will miss out on a swanky gala in Stockholm surrounded by royalty and Sweden's glitterati, but 2020 will at least not be ...
Sep 26, 2020
Netflix says it does not agree with Chinese author’s views on Uighur Muslims
(Reuters) - Netflix Inc , in a response to U.S. senators' concerns over the company's plans to adapt a Chinese science-fiction book trilogy, said on Friday it did not agree with the Chinese author's v...
Sep 26, 2020
Australia begins disposal of about 350 dead whales as rescue efforts end
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian wildlife officials began disposing of hundreds of dead pilot whales on Saturday after concluding there was no longer any hope of rescuing any more. In Au...
Sep 26, 2020
