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Kuwait to move to fourth stage of gradual return to normality plan: cabinet
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Kuwaiti cabinet said on Thursday it will start implementing the fourth stage of the gradual go-to-normality plan on Aug. 18 and some activities that were set to open during the f...
Aug 13, 2020
Erdogan says Turkey will exact ‘high price’ for any attack on vessel
ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that any attack on a Turkish ship exploring for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters would incur a "high price" and suggested Turke...
Aug 13, 2020
Merkel spoke to Erdogan, Greek PM on eastern Mediterranean
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke by telephone to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis about their dispute over energy exploration in th...
Aug 13, 2020
Nigeria says reversing U.S. visa ban will take ‘enormous resources’
By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Overturning a U.S. ban on Nigerians seeking immigrant visas will take "enormous resources", but the nation is making progress, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thurs...
Aug 13, 2020
U.S. barring private charter flights to Cuba
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Transportation said on Thursday it will suspend private charter flights to Cuba to increase U.S. economic pressure on the Cuban govern...
Aug 13, 2020
NSA, FBI expose Russian intelligence hacking tool: report
By Christopher Bing (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have exposed a sophisticated Russian hacking tool, they said on Thursday in a rare public report o...
Aug 13, 2020
Coronavirus test blunder leaves possible Merkel successor red-faced
BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of the state of Bavaria, a possible successor to Angela Merkel as the conservative candidate for chancellor, apologised on Thursday for a coronavirus bungle that meant so...
Aug 13, 2020
One killed in Ivory Coast protests against president’s third term bid
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - At least one protester was killed in Ivory Coast on Thursday, a ruling party official and security sources said, as small groups burned makeshift road blocks in protests against Pr...
Aug 13, 2020
France reports new post-lockdown peak in daily COVID-19 cases
PARIS (Reuters) - The French health ministry reported 2,669 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours on Thursday, setting a new post-lockdown daily high for the second day in a row and taking...
Aug 13, 2020
Spain’s Canary Islands curb smoking amid COVID-19 worries
MADRID (Reuters) - The Canary Islands became Spain's second region to all but ban smoking in the streets on Thursday as part of measures to stop a resurgence of coronavirus infections, and other regio...
Aug 13, 2020
