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Japan PM contender Suga suggests overhaul of health ministry
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government needs to reform its health ministry after the coronavirus pandemic settles down, Chief Cabinet Secretary and prime minister hopeful Yoshihide Suga said in a newspa...
Sep 07, 2020
Almost 300 Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia’s Aceh province
By Hidayatullah Tahjuddin and Poppy McPherson Lhokseumawe (Reuters) - Almost 300 Rohingya refugees believed to have been at sea for six months landed in Indonesia's Aceh province in the early on Monda...
Sep 07, 2020
India overtakes Brazil as country second-worst hit by COVID-19
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India's coronavirus infections surged past 4.2 million on Monday as it overtook Brazil to become the country with the second-highest number of cases. With 4,204,613 infections, I...
Sep 07, 2020
China to hold more military drills off northeast, east coasts
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will hold further military exercises from Monday along its northeast and eastern coast, the government said, the latest in a series of unusual back-to-back drills against a b...
Sep 06, 2020
Germany’s confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 814 to 250,799: RKI
BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 814 to 250,799, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Monday. With no new dea...
Sep 06, 2020
Honduran finance minister tweets that he tested positive for COVID-19
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran Finance Minister Marco Midence said on Sunday he has tested positive for coronavirus, only weeks after stepping into the post. Midence, 35, said on Twitter that "today...
Sep 06, 2020
Japan’s search for crew of capsized cattle ship still suspended
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's coastguard said on Monday that its search-and-rescue mission for 40 missing crew from a capsized cattle ship in the East China Sea remains suspended, with no timing set for r...
Sep 06, 2020
Typhoon Haishen heads toward Korea after battering Japan
By Sangmi Cha and Sakura Murakami SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - South Korea hunkered down for the arrival of Typhoon Haishen on Monday, after the powerful storm battered Japan's southern islands but appeare...
Sep 06, 2020
Australia’s secures access to AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine within months
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Monday said it will receive the first batches of a potential COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021, as the country's virus hotspot said the number of new da...
Sep 06, 2020
Death knell sounds for some of Japan’s oldest department stores
TOKYO (Reuters) - After more than three centuries in business, the Onuma department store in northern Japanese city of Yamagata began bankruptcy proceedings this year - one of many distinguished depar...
Sep 06, 2020
