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Russian court bars Navalny’s candidate from local elections
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court has barred a candidate promoted by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in the last video before his sudden illness from running for a seat on the city council in Novosibir...
Aug 31, 2020
Niger floods kill 51, drive thousands from their homes
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Severe flooding in Niger this month has killed 51 people and destroyed thousands of homes after torrential rains caused rivers to burst their banks, authorities said on Monday. Floo...
Aug 31, 2020
Philippines extends partial coronavirus curbs in Manila until Sept. 30
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday partial restrictions in and around the capital Manila will be kept for another month starting Sept. 1 to tackle a rising number o...
Aug 31, 2020
U.S. ambassador to Russia visits jailed ex-Marine Reed
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Russia visited on Monday a former U.S. Marine who has just started a nine-year sentence in a Moscow jail, and said the United States was pushing for his relea...
Aug 31, 2020
Emergency authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines needs great care – WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - The emergency authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines requires a "great deal of seriousness and reflection", the World Health Organization said on Monday. Although every country had the ...
Aug 31, 2020
West accepts Moscow was right to approve COVID vaccine, Russian official says
By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) - Comments by a senior U.S. official and moves by Britain towards the possible fast-tracking of COVID-19 vaccines show the West now accepts Russia was righ...
Aug 31, 2020
Top envoy says U.S. preparing tighter oil sanctions on Venezuela
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is looking to tighten oil sanctions on Venezuela in the near future, top U.S. envoy for the country told Reuters on Monday, by potentia...
Aug 31, 2020
Lone revellers brighten Notting Hill’s empty streets on carnival day
LONDON (Reuters) - Notting Hill Carnival, a highlight of the British summer, may have been cancelled this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but a couple of colourful individuals on Monday were de...
Aug 31, 2020
Opening up without control of COVID-19 is recipe for disaster, says WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization called on countries to persevere with restrictions to tackle COVID-19, director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday, saying opening up wi...
Aug 31, 2020
Spain reports more than 23,000 new virus cases since Friday
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain has registered more than 23,000 new coronavirus cases since Friday, health emergency chief Fernando Simon told a news conference on Monday, suggesting the infection rate had d...
Aug 31, 2020
