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Armenia calls for probe into 'foreign mercenaries' in Karabakh
By Nvard Hovhannisyan and Nailia Bagirova YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Armenia's prime minister called on Monday for an international investigation into the presence of "foreign mercenaries" in Nagorno-Ka...
Thomson Reuters Nov 02, 2020
Uganda's Museveni warns off disruptors as he starts bid for another term
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's veteran president Yoweri Museveni warned that anyone breaking the peace would regret their actions as he formally started his bid for another term in ...
Thomson Reuters Nov 02, 2020
ECB's Rehn calls for regular strategy review, sustainable investments
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should review its strategy on a regular basis in future and adopt more sustainable investment practices, ECB policymaker Olli Rehn said on Monday. The EC...
Thomson Reuters Nov 02, 2020
Brazil's military patrols its remote northern Amazon border region
By Adriano Machado OIAPOQUE, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil has mobilized more than 4,000 soldiers to patrol its northern coast near the jungle border with French Guiana for the trafficking of drugs, weapo...
Thomson Reuters Nov 02, 2020
Share of Russians who would decline COVID-19 vaccine grows, pollster says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A growing number of Russians are unwilling to be inoculated against COVID-19 once a vaccine becomes widely available, the Levada Centre, Russia's only major independent pollster, sa...
Thomson Reuters Nov 02, 2020
Trump or Biden? Billions of dollars at stake as betters lay money down
By Thyagaraju Adinarayan LONDON (Reuters) - The 2020 U.S. election is shaping up to be the biggest betting event of all time, with one player placing a record-breaking one million-pound bet on a victo...
Thomson Reuters Nov 02, 2020
I'm a physicist, I listen to the science, Germany's Merkel says
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said she accords a lot of weight to scientific advice when dealing with the coronavirus, but she declined to say how important it is for her that ...
Thomson Reuters Nov 02, 2020
UK aviation needs government support for new lockdown pain: airport boss
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's airports and airlines need urgent support to survive the "very bleak future" posed by a new lockdown in England, warned the boss of one of the country's biggest airport gr...
Thomson Reuters Nov 02, 2020
Britain says appalled by Iran's new case against Zaghari-Ratcliffe
LONDON (Reuters) - Iran's decision to bring a new case against imprisoned British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is appalling and she should be returned to Britain to rejoin her family, ...
Thomson Reuters Nov 02, 2020
Israeli minister says normalisation deals need U.S. president tough on Iran
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and Qatar are among countries slated to establish relations with Israel under a regional rapprochement launched by U.S. President Donald Trump, an Is...
Thomson Reuters Nov 02, 2020
