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U.S.-Canada border shutdown likely to extend through November, Ottawa cool to more exemptions – sources
By David Shepardson, Ted Hesson and David Ljunggren WASHINGTON/OTTAWA (Reuters) - The United States and Canada are likely to extend border restrictions until at least the end of November as coronaviru...
Sep 15, 2020
UK joining ‘ranks of despots’ with treaty breach plan, Merkel ally says
BERLIN (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to breach the Brexit treaty breaks Britain's tradition of upholding the rule of law and pushes it into "the ranks of despots", an ally of...
Sep 15, 2020
Canada not ruling out lockdown amid COVID-19 surge but eyes ‘surgical approach’
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's health minister on Tuesday said she could not rule out another full lockdown if needed amid a surge in new COVID-19 cases, but added that the government was significantly m...
Sep 15, 2020
Russian loan won’t keep Lukashenko afloat for long
By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber and Katya Golubkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - A $1.5 billion loan from Russia will shore up Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for the time being as he tries to face down m...
Sep 15, 2020
U.N. war crimes experts urge Turkey to rein in rebels in Syria
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Turkey must rein in Syrian rebels it supports in northern Syria who may have carried out kidnappings, torture and looting of civilian property, United Nations w...
Sep 15, 2020
Brazil’s Bolsonaro, amid funding concerns, scraps new welfare plan
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday said he was scrapping plans to launch a new social welfare program called Renda Brasil and will keep the Bolsa Familia cond...
Sep 15, 2020
Defying fatwa, Iraqis flock to COVID cemetery to exhume dead, re-bury elsewhere
By Ahmed Saeed NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - It took Abu Haider and his relatives several hours to dig up his nephew's grave and exhume the body at a cemetery in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf built espec...
Sep 15, 2020
Myanmar reports highest COVID-19 daily toll, with 307 new cases
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar reported 307 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, its highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic in March, as the country battles a second wave of infections. The healt...
Sep 15, 2020
Ireland delays reopening of Dublin bars as COVID-19 case numbers climb
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish government delayed on Tuesday the planned reopening of all pubs in Dublin following a surge in COVID-19 cases in the capital, but bars across the rest of the country will ...
Sep 15, 2020
Greece ready for talks with Turkey if ‘encouraging step’ is pursued
By Angeliki Koutantou and Orhan Coskun ATHENS/ANKARA (Reuters) - Greece said on Tuesday it was ready for talks with Turkey over contested Mediterranean waters if Ankara continues "disengaging itself" ...
Sep 15, 2020
