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Myanmar bars major election monitoring group from observing polls
(Reuters) - A major election-monitoring group in Myanmar says it has been barred from observing polls set for November, raising questions about the credibility of a vote seen as a crucial test of demo...
Aug 13, 2020
Gone fishing – English angling sees post-lockdown boom
LONDON (Reuters) - Fishing in England has seen a post COVID-19 lockdown boom as more people take advantage of the mental health and wellbeing benefits of casting a rod and being at one with nature, th...
Aug 13, 2020
Hardened Lebanese merchants battered by Beirut blast
By Michael Georgy BEIRUT (Reuters) - Sleep Comfort survived Lebanon's 15-year civil war. But nothing could have prepared the high-end family furniture business for the Beirut port blast that destroyed...
Aug 13, 2020
North Macedonia’s pro-Western leader gets nod to form new government
SKOPJE (Reuters) - North Macedonia's president on Thursday handed a mandate to pro-Western ex-prime minister Zoran Zaev to form a new government after his party bloc narrowly won a July 15 election. "...
Aug 13, 2020
EU eyes sanctions over disputed Belarus election ‘as soon as end-August’
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will likely impose new sanctions on Belarus as soon as later this month, diplomats and officials said, after President Alexander Lukashenk...
Aug 13, 2020
Belgian students to self-collect saliva in large COVID-19 testing experiment
By Francesco Guarascio and Yves Herman BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Thousands of students at a Belgian university will collect weekly from September a sample of their saliva for a rapid COVID-19 test replacin...
Aug 13, 2020
Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa family cements power with ministerial picks
By Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed five members of his own family to cabinet and ministerial roles following his resounding parliamentary election w...
Aug 13, 2020
Mass arrests in Ethiopia raise spectre of repressive past
By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has detained more than 9,000 people after deadly clashes last month, the state-run human rights commission told Reuters, raising fears that a governm...
Aug 13, 2020
Armed people enter Belarusian offices of Russian internet firm Yandex
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian internet giant Yandex said on Thursday that armed individuals had entered its offices in the Belarusian capital Minsk. The company said it was trying to get more information...
Aug 13, 2020
Finland recommends use of facemasks on public transport
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's government backs public health authorities' new recommendation to use facemasks on public transport and in other situations where social distancing is not possible, Prim...
Aug 13, 2020
