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Ireland significantly tightens nationwide COVID-19 restrictions
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland significantly tightened its nationwide coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday to rein in an increase in cases, urging everyone to restrict visitors to their homes, avoid public...
Aug 18, 2020
Britain to lead training programme for Ukrainian navy
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will lead a multinational programme to help train the Ukrainian navy, the Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday, seeking to bolster security in the region and improve Ukraine'...
Aug 18, 2020
Coronavirus in ‘sustained decline’ in Mexico, top official says
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic is now in "sustained decline" in Mexico after a significant drop in fatalities during the past week, the government's coronavirus czar Hugo Lopez-Gatel...
Aug 18, 2020
Ukraine, Israel urge Hasidic Jews to cancel pilgrimage due to coronavirus
KYIV (Reuters) - The Ukrainian and Israeli governments issued a joint statement on Tuesday asking Israeli Hasidic Jews to cancel their annual pilgrimage to the central Ukrainian town of Uman this year...
Aug 18, 2020
Indians erect banners, pray for Kamala Harris to win U.S. election
PAINGANADU, INDIA (Reuters) - Indians in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, which U.S. vice president hopeful Kamala Harris visited as a kid, erected banners, held special prayers and wished her succes...
Aug 18, 2020
Austria says it will issue travel warning for Spain’s Balearic islands
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria is expanding its travel warning for the Spanish mainland to include the Balearic islands, such as Mallorca and Ibiza, because of an increase in coronavirus infections there,...
Aug 18, 2020
Russian major-general dies, three servicemen injured after blast in Syria: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian major-general died and three other servicemen were injured after a bomb exploded in the path of a Russian military convoy near Deir al Zor in Syria, the RIA news agency ci...
Aug 18, 2020
Russia jails anti-Kremlin activist over Putin mannequin stunt
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced an anti-Kremlin activist to two years in prison for displaying a life-size mannequin of President Vladimir Putin in a striped prison jumpsuit on...
Aug 18, 2020
Russian jets bomb opposition-held Idlib: witnesses
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jets believed to be Russian bombed several towns in rebel-held northwestern Syria in a new flare-up of violence since a Turkish-Russian deal that halted major ...
Aug 18, 2020
Cyprus says willing to engage on defining maritime zones
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus said on Tuesday it was willing to engage with all its neighbours on defining maritime boundaries, amid a tense stand-off with Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean over jurisd...
Aug 18, 2020
