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22 schools closed in France due to coronavirus: minister
PARIS (Reuters) - French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said on Friday 22 schools were closed in France due to cases of COVID-19. "In mainland France there are currenly 12 schools closed out ...
Sep 04, 2020
Quarantine ‘confusion’ in the UK with different rules for England, Wales and Scotland
LONDON (Reuters) - Travellers to the United Kingdom faced what the transport minister said was confusion on Friday as Wales and Scotland slapped a quarantine on arrivals from Portugal but England and ...
Sep 04, 2020
China’s international schools struggle as teachers, students remain stuck abroad
By Engen Tham and Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's international schools are reopening this month but will be short of key elements - teachers and pupils. Schools across the world are grappling...
Sep 04, 2020
India army chief says talks can resolve border row with China
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane said on Friday he was confident that the ongoing border stand-off with China in the western Himalayas could be resolved through t...
Sep 04, 2020
Rescuers sift Beirut rubble amid signs of life a month after blast
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rescue workers in Beirut dug through the rubble of a collapsed building with their hands on Friday, a day after signs of life were detected under a mound of debris one month after a...
Sep 04, 2020
Malaysia drops criminal charges against Goldman Sachs over 1MDB bond sales: state media
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian prosecutors on Friday withdrew criminal charges against three Goldman Sachs units accused of misleading investors over $6.5 billion in bond sales they helped organiz...
Sep 04, 2020
Fire rages on supertanker off Sri Lanka, one crew presumed dead
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A Philippine crew member missing from a supertanker hit by fire off the Sri Lankan coast is presumed dead, a spokesman for the navy of the Indian Ocean nation said on Friday. The...
Sep 03, 2020
Australian writer detained in China says will ‘fight to the end’
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian writer Yang Hengjun, detained by Chinese authorities for 18 months, has told family he has refused to make a false confession, as his case appears to mo...
Sep 03, 2020
No sign of crew missing near Japan after cattle ship capsizes in storm
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese coastguard said on Friday it was still searching for more than 40 crew members who went missing after a ship carrying cattle from New Zealand to China capsized in stormy...
Sep 03, 2020
Japan’s Suga jumps in popularity, tops favourability poll for next PM
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is now the most preferred candidate among the public to become the next prime minister, surging in popularity after he entered his part...
Sep 03, 2020
