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Venezuela opposition lawmakers open probe of oil spill on Caribbean coast
By Brian Ellsworth CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition-run congress has opened an investigation into an oil spill that continues to pollute palm-lined beaches along the South American nation's ...
Aug 12, 2020
Chinese national killed at Zijin mining camp in Congo, company says
(Reuters) - A Chinese national was killed during an attack on a mining camp run by Zijin Mining Group Co in the early hours of Tuesday in southern Democratic Republic of Congo, a report on the company...
Aug 12, 2020
Killing of Cameroonian woman by alleged separatists sparks outcry
DOUALA (Reuters) - Human rights activists on Wednesday condemned the killing of a young woman in Cameroon's Anglophone regions after a video of alleged separatist rebels slitting her throat drew outra...
Aug 12, 2020
State Department watchdog finds fault in conduct of U.S. Ambassador to Britain
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to Britain Woody Johnson has made insensitive and inappropriate comments during his tenure, including about race, religion and sex, the State Department's inspec...
Aug 12, 2020
Turkish schools to begin reopening on September 21: education minister
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish schools will start to reopen on Sept. 21 in a gradual transition to in-person education, the country's Education Minister Ziya Selcuk said on Wednesday, delaying the reope...
Aug 12, 2020
Turkish board proposes schools stay closed for another month: minister
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's science board recommended on Wednesday that education in schools should not begin for at least one more month, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said, after the board met to...
Aug 12, 2020
Chile cautiously lifts lockdown lid on capital’s center
By Aislinn Laing and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile will lift one of the world's longest quarantines on Monday, moving the capital Santiago's central business district and adjoini...
Aug 12, 2020
Baby George, born amid Beirut blast, is ‘light in the darkness’
By Charlotte Bruneau and Yara Abi Nader BEIRUT, (Reuters) - Stepping into the delivery room where his wife Emmanuelle was about to give birth, Edmond Khnaisser meant to capture their son's first momen...
Aug 12, 2020
Surge in Spain’s virus cases prompts regional smoking ban, field hospital
MADRID (Reuters) - Coronavirus cases in Spain jumped by nearly 1,700 on Wednesday, part of a surge that has prompted the construction of a military field hospital in the hard-hit Aragon region and led...
Aug 12, 2020
Greece registers 262 new coronavirus cases, highest daily tally
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece reported 262 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, its highest daily tally since the start of the outbreak in the country, health authorities said. The latest jump in cases bri...
Aug 12, 2020
