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Staff at some French testing sites strike over COVID-19 conditions
PARIS (Reuters) - Staff at around 20 health testing clinics in southern France went on strike on Wednesday, saying that the COVID-19 outbreak had left them overworked and at risk without being properl...
Sep 16, 2020
Belarusian leader says he asked Putin for armaments at meeting: Belta
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Wednesday he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to supply Belarus with several types of weapon, the Belta state news agency re...
Sep 16, 2020
WikiLeaks’ Assange was careful to protect informants, court hears
LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange was careful to ensure that the names of informants in hundreds of thousands of leaked secret U.S. government documents were never published, his Lo...
Sep 16, 2020
France regrets that Lebanese government not yet formed but says there is still time
PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Wednesday it regretted the fact that Lebanese politicians had failed to form a government two weeks after French President Emmanuel Macron set a Sept. 15 deadline, but...
Sep 16, 2020
Mass murderer Breivik to apply for parole: report
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik will seek to apply for parole, his lawyer told daily VG on Wednesday. The far-right extremist killed eight people with a bomb in Oslo an...
Sep 16, 2020
Belarusian police say officers’ personal data leaked online
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Belarusian police said on Wednesday that the personal data of 300 of its officers had been leaked online since the opposition began trying to expose the identities of members of...
Sep 16, 2020
Pandemic ‘hero’ Filipino nurses struggle to leave home
By Karen Lema and Clare Baldwin MANILA (Reuters) - From across the Philippines, they gathered to pray by Zoom. They were praying to be allowed to leave: To be allowed to take up nursing jobs in countr...
Sep 16, 2020
Twenty-nine German police suspended for sharing pictures of Hitler
DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - Twenty-nine police officers have been suspended in Germany for sharing pictures of Adolf Hitler and doctored depictions of refugees in gas chambers on their mobile pho...
Sep 16, 2020
Indian, China troops exchanged gunshots twice last week as tensions rose
By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian and Chinese border troops had an exchange of gunfire last week just days before a meeting of their foreign ministers, Indian officials said on Wednesday...
Sep 16, 2020
‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero could face maximum life in prison, prosecution says
By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) - Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, may face 25 years to life in prison if convicted of various offen...
Sep 16, 2020
