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Facebook says plans to challenge Thai government demand to block group critical of monarchy
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Facebook said on Tuesday it was planning to legally challenge the Thai government after being "compelled" to block access within Thailand to a group with 1 million members that dis...
Aug 25, 2020
Japan’s Abe may speak on health issues this week: media
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to hold a press conference as early as this week about his health after recent visits to a hospital stoked public concern, local media reporte...
Aug 24, 2020
Australian state to make landowners clear fire hazards
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's most populous state said on Tuesday it will compel owners to clear their land of flammable material as it endorsed 76 recommendations from an enquiry in...
Aug 24, 2020
More than 60 survivors pulled from collapsed building in India
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Rescue workers pulled more than 60 people alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in an industrial town near India's financial capital Mumbai, a senior official said on Tuesda...
Aug 24, 2020
South Korea closes most schools in Seoul area to battle resurgent coronavirus
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Tuesday ordered most schools in Seoul and surrounding areas to close and move classes back online, the latest in a series of precautionary measures aimed at heading of...
Aug 24, 2020
Daughter of NZ mosque victim tells gunman: consider ‘beauty of diversity’ while in prison
By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The daughter of a woman killed in the New Zealand mosque shootings challenged white supremacist Brenton Tarrant at his sentencing hearing to use his life in pri...
Aug 24, 2020
Rohingya politicians excluded from Myanmar election
By Shoon Naing YANGON (Reuters) - Aspiring politician Abdul Rasheed was born in Myanmar and is one of the very few members of the Rohingya Muslim minority to have Myanmar citizenship. His father was a...
Aug 24, 2020
Argentina records record number of coronavirus cases and deaths
By Nicols Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina confirmed a record 8,713 new cases of coronavirus on Monday and 381 resulting deaths in just 24 hours, as the Latin American nation battles a surg...
Aug 24, 2020
Australia’s COVID-19 daily cases creep higher but below record levels
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Australian state at the centre of the country's coronavirus second wave on Tuesday reported 148 new COVID-19 cases, more than the previous day but well down from peak levels, an...
Aug 24, 2020
Colombia to move to ‘selective’ quarantine, participate in vaccine trials
By Julia Symmes Cobb and Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia will enter a period of "selective" quarantine when its five months of national coronavirus lockdown ends at the close of August, ...
Aug 24, 2020
