Russia’s COVID-19 deaths return to record daily highs
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia today reported 820 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, matching an all-time high set on Aug.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia today reported 820 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, matching an all-time high set on Aug.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. special envoy for Haiti, Ambassador Daniel Foote, has resigned, a senior State Department official said today, amid mass deportations of Haitians who fled recent political turmoil and natural disasters at home.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday promised to buy 500 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses to donate to other countries as it comes under increasing pressure to share its supply with the rest of the world.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Beginning more than a millennium ago, intrepid seafarers traversed vast Pacific Ocean expanses in double-hulled sailing canoes to reach the far-flung islands of Polynesia, the planet’s last habitable region to be settled by people.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Brazilian miner Vale SA has given up all rights to mining prospects on indigenous lands in Brazil, recognizing that they require the consent of the communities and legislation regulating such activity, the company said on Wednesday.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Clerics from Egypt’s ancient seat of Sunni study Al-Azhar, who spent years teaching in Afghanistan and were planning to open an education centre for girls, hope their tolerant message of Islam will survive the return of the Taliban.
WINDHOEK, (Reuters) – During a heated parliamentary debate, Namibian opposition lawmakers yesterday criticised a 1.1 billion euro ($1.3 billion) compensation offer from Germany for its 1904-1908 genocide in the southwest African country and called on the government to renegotiate terms.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is giving $247 million in humanitarian aid and $89 million in economic and development aid to Venezuelans, State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement on Wednesday.
LA PALMA, Spain, (Reuters) – Lava poured from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma for a fourth day today, blanketing houses and fields, a day after people with homes on the path of the molten rock were allowed back briefly to recover belongings.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Chinese leader Xi Jinping said yesterday that China would not build new coal-fired power projects abroad, using his address at the United Nations General Assembly to add to pledges to deal with climate change.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday to fund the U.S.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden mapped out a new era of vigorous competition without a new Cold War despite China’s ascendance during his first United Nations address yesterday, promising military restraint and a robust fight against climate change.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said its executive board yesterday to discuss a report prepared for the World Bank alleging that IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva pressured staff to alter data to favor China while serving as the bank’s CEO.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau failed in his bid to win a Liberal majority government after a low-energy campaign in the middle of the pandemic, and party insiders see an increasing chance he will step down before the next vote.
VILNIUS, (Reuters) – Lithuania’s Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The European Court of Human Rights found yesterday that Russia was responsible for the assassination of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died an agonising death in 2006 after being poisoned in London with a rare radioactive substance.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The European Court of Human Rights found today that Russia was responsible for the assassination of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died an agonising death in 2006 after being poisoned in London with a rare radioactive substance.
MONTREAL, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today acknowledged he will need to work with other parties after he fell short of winning a majority in parliamentary elections, leaving him once more dependent on opposition legislators to govern.
CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico, (Reuters) – The White House yesterday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Weeks before the World Bank scrapped its flagship Doing Business rankings following a damning independent probe, a group of external advisers recommended an overhaul of the rankings to limit countries’ efforts to “manipulate their scores.”
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