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Belgian king names two to form government – 16 months after election
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Sixteen months after elections, Belgium may finally have a new government as King Philippe on Wednesday tasked the caretaker finance minister and the leader of the...
Sep 23, 2020
Canada’s COVID-19 testing system overwhelmed after slow move to new tests
By Allison Martell TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's recent spike in COVID-19 cases has created day-long lines at testing centers and prolonged waits for results, highlighting gaps in a system that leans h...
Sep 23, 2020
Nigerian gas tanker explosion kills at least 28
ABUJA (Reuters) - At least 28 people were killed on Wednesday when a gas tanker exploded in the central Nigerian state of Kogi and started a blaze, a road safety agency official said. Bisi Kazeem, spo...
Sep 23, 2020
UK fraud office seizes jewels, Rolex watches linked to fugitive
LONDON (Reuters) - A wanted fugitive whose brother was convicted of a role in a 50 million pound ($64 million) British mortgage scam has had opulent necklaces, gold, silver and diamond-encrusted Rolex...
Sep 23, 2020
Gambia MPs reject retroactive bill curbing term limits as unlawful
BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian lawmakers loyal to President Adama Barrow on Wednesday said they had voted against a new constitution that would have barred him from serving two more terms because the char...
Sep 23, 2020
Switzerland sends 2,500 students into quarantine after hotel school COVID outbreak
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland has quarantined the entire undergraduate body of one of its premier hospitality management schools just days after their return from summer recess, regional officials sa...
Sep 23, 2020
Three Egyptian policemen, four militants killed in prison break attempt
CAIRO (Reuters) - Three Egyptian policemen were killed while preventing four Islamist militants on death row fleeing a Cairo prison on Wednesday, the interior ministry said. All four militants were ki...
Sep 23, 2020
U.S. ambassador says Turkey ignores pharma debt at its peril
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said on Wednesday companies will consider abandoning its market if it fails to fully meet debt payments to American pharmaceutical firms, and he crit...
Sep 23, 2020
Lebanon’s fractious politics puts French lifeline at risk
By Ellen Francis BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's sectarian politicians have overshot one deadline they had agreed with France and missing more may put at risk a French lifeline to haul the Middle East na...
Sep 23, 2020
Kenya’s Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders
MAPARASHA HILLS, Kenya (Reuters) - Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ochre gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (war...
Sep 23, 2020
