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U.S. imposes Iran-related sanctions on UAE-based companies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on two United Arab Emirates-based companies, the U.S. Treasury Department said, accusing them of providing support to Iranian ai...
Aug 19, 2020
Pompeo says U.S. expects to trigger snapback on Iran soon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is expecting to trigger snapback - a return of all U.S. sanctions on Iran - soon, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, after the U.N. Security Cou...
Aug 19, 2020
Exclusive: Germany, France push for WHO reform talks in September
By Andreas Rinke and Stephanie Nebehay BERLIN/GENEVA (Reuters) - Germany and France want to give more money and power to the World Health Organisation after the COVID-19 pandemic underscored long-stan...
Aug 19, 2020
Saudi remains committed to Arab Peace Initiative for Israel peace, foreign minister says
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia remains committed to peace with Israel on the basis of the longstanding Arab Peace Initiative, its foreign minister said on Wednesday in the first official comment sinc...
Aug 19, 2020
Erdogan says no threats can deter Turkey’s operations in Mediterranean
ANKARA (Reuters) - No threats can deter Turkey from seeking natural resources in the eastern Mediterranean, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, adding that Ankara expects actors in the region ...
Aug 19, 2020
Lebanon’s Hezbollah ‘got power but lost the country’
By Samia Nakhoul and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a cou...
Aug 19, 2020
Slovenia’s government warns against travel to Croatia
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia urged its citizens to return from Croatia by the end of the week or face an obligatory two-week quarantine after the number of COVID-19 cases continued to rise there, th...
Aug 19, 2020
South Africa investigates COVID-linked corruption of $290 million
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African authorities are investigating government departments for graft over irregularities in coronavirus-related tenders worth 5 billion rand ($290 million), the head of i...
Aug 19, 2020
Keeper of Beirut’s past looks to architectural future after blast
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Standing in front of the rubble of a house destroyed in Beirut's port blast, Henry Loussian brushes off the dust and dirt from fragments of its architecture all but lost among a tan...
Aug 19, 2020
Mali president Keita vowed to end coups. Now he’s been toppled too
By Aaron Ross DAKAR (Reuters) - A month after becoming president of Mali in 2013, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita declared that the days of mutinous soldiers undermining the power of government in the capital ...
Aug 19, 2020
