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Trudeau commits Canada to sharing any extra vaccine doses
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada will donate COVID-19 vaccines to other countries if it receives more doses than necessary, its Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a television interview. Reuters reported...
Dec 18, 2020
Mauritius shipping disaster caused by lack of attention to safety - owner
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nagashiki Shipping said on Friday the grounding of one of its large bulk carriers that caused an ecological disaster in Mauritius was due to a lack of safety awareness and a ...
Dec 18, 2020
OneWeb resumes satellite launches with flight from Russian cosmodrome
MOSCOW (Reuters) - OneWeb, the satellite firm rescued by the British government and India's Bharti Group, resumed flights on Friday in its push to provide global broadband coverage as 36 of its satell...
Dec 18, 2020
Sweden to allow underwater investigation of Estonia wreck site
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden said on Friday it would allow an underwater examination of the ferry Estonia, which sank in the Baltic 26 years ago with the loss of 852 lives, after a documentary film sh...
Dec 18, 2020
Berlin rejigs film festival for pandemic times
BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin became the first of next year's big European film festivals to bow to the coronavirus pandemic, announcing it would hold a reduced, online-only programme in March, a month la...
Dec 18, 2020
Senior Chinese diplomat Wang says U.S. should replace sanctions with dialogue
(Reuters) - The United States should choose dialogue and consultation with China instead of pursuing "unacceptable" unilateral sanctions against Chinese companies, China's State Councillor and foreign...
Dec 18, 2020
Swiss gov't closes restaurants, tells people to stay home to fight virus
ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government ordered all restaurants, sports and recreation centres closed for a month from Tuesday and urged people to stay home to curb stubbornly high coronavirus infecti...
Dec 18, 2020
Saudi-Led coalition destroys an Iranian-made mine in southern Red Sea - state TV
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Saudi-Led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Friday it destroyed a marine mine laid by Iran-aligned Houthis in the southern Red Sea, and that the mine is Iranian-made, Saudi sta...
Dec 18, 2020
Bulgaria expels Russian diplomat over espionage
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry has given a Russian diplomat 72 hours to leave the country after prosecutors alleged he has been involved in espionage in the Balkan country since 2017, i...
Dec 18, 2020
Volkswagen adjusting production amid semiconductor shortage
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany's Volkswagen said on Friday it faced a shortage in the supply of semiconductors and would adjust production at facilities in China, North America and Europe. Semiconductor...
Dec 18, 2020
