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Sweden to lift COVID ban on visits to care homes
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden will lift its ban on visits to care homes, the government said on Tuesday, as a result of a falling rate of new coronavirus infections and better routines to prevent new c...
Sep 15, 2020
Thai PM pledges to maintain peace during planned anti-government protest
By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's prime minister pledged on Tuesday to ensure that a major protest this weekend against his government would be peaceful but said he was concerned ...
Sep 15, 2020
Ireland sets new rules for quarantine-free travel
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland on Tuesday set out new rules for its quarantine-free travel "green list", saying visitors from a list of countries with a COVID-19 infection rate of under 25 cases per 100,0...
Sep 15, 2020
UK’s creaking COVID-19 test system puts health services at risk
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's testing system for COVID-19 was creaking on Tuesday as a bottleneck prevented people including medics from getting a test in a potential threat to key health services, hea...
Sep 15, 2020
India says it has doubled budget for roads and bridges on China border
By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has doubled the budget for vital roads and bridges along the undemarcated border with China in recent years in response to Beijing's rapid infrastructure...
Sep 15, 2020
Mongolians protest visit of China diplomat as language dispute simmers
ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) - Demonstrators rallied in Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar on Tuesday to protest against a visit by China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, amid accusations that Beijing is suppressing nat...
Sep 15, 2020
‘There’s nothing we can do,’ striking South African undertakers tell bereaved
By Emma Rumney JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Grieving South African families are being left searching for someone to collect the bodies of deceased relatives after funeral parlors like Hloni Swarts' went o...
Sep 15, 2020
Migrants stranded by Lesbos fire resist new temporary camp
LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) - Thousands of migrants stranded on Lesbos since a fire destroyed their camp last week refused to move into a new facility set up to house them on Tuesday, demanding instead t...
Sep 15, 2020
South Korea says no use of nuclear weapons in joint operational plans with U.S.
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Tuesday none of its joint military action plans with the United States include any use of nuclear weapons, after a book by a U.S. journalist spark...
Sep 15, 2020
Crises pile up in Sudan as aid slows and prices soar
By Khalid Abdelaziz and Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM/CAIRO (Reuters) - Saleha Adam had hoped things would get better after the ousting of Sudan's veteran leader Omar al-Bashir, and that more food and aid mig...
Sep 15, 2020
