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Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing departed for Russia on Sunday, state media says
HANOI (Reuters) - Myanmar junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has left the Southeast Asian country to attend a conference in Moscow, state media reported on Sunday. Min Aung Hlaing will attend...
Jun 20, 2021
U.S. National Security Adviser says comments by N.Korea's Kim are 'interesting signal'
(Reuters) - U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday said Washington sees comments this week by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he is ready for dialogue and confrontation with Presi...
Jun 20, 2021
Bank of Canada to break sequence of lower terminal rates as governments splurge
By Fergal Smith TORONTO (Reuters) - With fiscal spending booming and households flush with cash, investors are betting that the Bank of Canada's next tightening cycle, expected to begin in 2022, will ...
Jun 20, 2021
Italy, hosting G20, will call for tougher 'gig economy' rules
ROME (Reuters) - Italy will call for tougher rules governing 'gig economy' workers when it hosts labour ministers of the world's biggest economies in the Group of 20 next week. Italy's labour minister...
Jun 20, 2021
Delta variant behind COVID-19 resurge in Lisbon area
LISBON (Reuters) - Over half the new COVID-19 cases being reported in the Lisbon region are of the more infectious Delta coronavirus variant, preliminary data showed on Sunday as Portuguese authoritie...
Jun 20, 2021
Boeing to use anti-jamming system from Israel's Elbit in F-15s
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Boeing said on Sunday it will integrate an anti-jamming system developed by Israel's Elbit Systems into a fleet of F-15 fighter jets to be sold to an unnamed customer. Elbit's Im...
Jun 20, 2021
Libyan unity PM says coast road reopened ahead of Berlin talks
By Ahmed Elumami MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - The head of Libya's unity government said on Sunday he had reopened the main coast road across the frozen front line, a gesture of progress in the fragile p...
Jun 20, 2021
New compensation offer made over Suez Canal blockage- lawyer
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) -The owners of a giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March have made a new offer in a compensation dispute with the canal authority, a lawyer for the authorit...
Jun 20, 2021
Israeli cabinet orders inquiry on deadly festival stampede
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's new government approved on Sunday an official inquiry into a stampede in April in which killed 45 people at a Jewish pilgrimage site long deemed dangerously crowded by a...
Jun 20, 2021
Pope joins Myanmar bishops' appeal for humanitarian corridors
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday appealed to Myanmar's military leaders to allow aid to reach displaced, hungry people who have fled fighting since the Feb. 1 coup and to respect religi...
Jun 20, 2021
