NEW YORK, November 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Tributes to victims of the transatlantic slave trade can be found in museums and through statues, but a new proposal is calling for a memorial that can n
KAMPALA, November 20 (Reuters): Ugandan pop star and presidential candidate Bobi Wine, whose arrest this week triggered protests that led to at least 37 deaths, was released on bail on Friday after being c
HARARE, November 20 (Reuters): Zimbabwean journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin'ono was freed on bail on Friday after being arrested two weeks ago on charges of obstructing justice.
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BRCKO, Bosnia, November 20 (Reuters): Mirsad Zahirovic is a university-educated journalist and activist who moonlights as a waiter because he is not a member of one of the ruling political parties, which i
LONDON, November 20 (Reuters): People who've had COVID-19 are highly unlikely to contract it again for at least six months after their first infection, according to a British study of healthcare worker
BRUSSELS, November 20 (Reuters): The European Union and Britain remain at odds in last-ditch trade talks over fishing rights, guarantees of fair competition and ways to solve future disputes, even tho
WASHINGTON, November 20 (Reuters): The U.S. government put convicted rapist and murderer Orlando Hall to death by lethal injection on Thursday, the eighth execution under the Trump administration since cap
GENEVA, NOVEMBER 20 (IANS): The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday warned that the antiviral drug remdesivir should not be used to treat Covid-19 patients no matter how ill they are as there is no eviden
BELGRADE, November 20 (Reuters): Patriarch Irinej, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, has died after contracting COVID-19, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday.
Church bells tolled in Belgrad
(Reuters): President Donald Trump will meet with the Republican leaders of the Michigan state legislature on Friday at the White House, as his campaign pursues an increasingly desperate bid to overturn the
DETROIT/WILMINGTON, Del., November 20 (Reuters): After a painstaking recount, Georgia officials confirmed on Thursday that President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in the battleground stat
LONDON, November 20 (Reuters): Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip celebrate their 73rd wedding anniversary on Friday, an occasion they will be unable to share with their family as England is c
Washington, November 20 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 56.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.35 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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LONDON, November 19 (Reuters): Britain announced its biggest military spending increase since the Cold War on Thursday, pledging to end the "era of retreat" as it seeks a post-Brexit role in a wo
WASHINGTON, November 19 (Reuters): The United States on Thursday slapped sanctions on two new companies it accused of being involved in exporting forced labor from North Korea and warned countries to send
KABUL, November 19 (Reuters): In a small art gallery in the Afghan capital, Marzia Panahi watches as one of the young artists she has just employed applies paint to a framed felt canvas propped up against
BRUSSELS, November 19 (Reuters): The European Commission is holding off on updating EU contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit amid a final push in talks with Britain to safeguard free trade from tariffs an
ADDIS ABABA/GENEVA, November 19 (Reuters): Ethiopia's military accused the World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday of supporting and trying to procure arms and dipl
PRAGUE, November 19 (Reuters): Donald Trump would be wiser to acknowledge losing the U.S. presidential election and quit, Czech President Milos Zeman, an early Trump supporter, said on Thursday.
Zeman,
HANOI, November 19 (Reuters): Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook in the country if it does not bow to government pressure to censor more local political content on its platform, a senior official