WINNIPEG, November 18 (Reuters): In July, the Canadian province of Manitoba went two weeks without a single new case of COVID-19. Theaters and casinos reopened and children soon returned to school.
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LONDON, November 18 (Reuters): British counter-terrorism police said on Wednesday they had arrested a man over the 1974 pub bombings in the city of Birmingham which killed 21 people, the deadliest attack o
LONDON, November 18 (Reuters): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his government's handling of the procurement of protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, after
BANGKOK, November 18 (Reuters): Thai police have water cannon and teargas to fire at protesters. The answer: Inflatable yellow pool ducks.
The giant ducks starred on Wednesday as thousands of prote
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Pfizer Inc said on Wednesday that final results from the late-stage trial of its COVID-19 vaccine showed it was 95% effective, adding it had the required two-months of safety data and would apply for
KINSHASA, November 18 (Reuters): Democratic Republic of Congo announced the end of an almost six-month Ebola outbreak in the west of the country on Wednesday as health authorities looked to apply lessons f
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Britain will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2030, five years earlier than previously planned, as part of what Prime Minister Boris Johnson is casting as a "green revolu
ADDIS ABABA, November 18 (Reuters): The rulers of Ethiopia's rebellious Tigray region refused on Wednesday to surrender to federal troops and instead claimed they were winning a war that has exacerbate
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 18 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 55.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.3 million according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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BANGKOK, November 18 (Reuters): At least 55 people were hurt, some with gunshot wounds, when demonstrators marching on the Thai parliament clashed with police and royalist counter-protesters, in the worst
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters): President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired top U.S. cybersecurity official Chris Krebs in a tweet, accusing him without evidence of making a "highly inaccurate" s
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President Donald Trump will take the fight to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the U.S. presidential election to a court in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, where another legal setback would likely doom h
SAINT-HILAIRE-DE-RIEZ, France, November 17 (Reuters): Marine biologists are investigating the deaths of at least six whales found washed up on France's western shores with no apparent sign of having be
COPENHAGEN, November 17 (Reuters): Denmark's minority government finally gained parliamentary support on Tuesday to legalise the cull it ordered earlier this month of all farmed mink to prevent the spr
LONDON, November 17 (Reuters): Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned his top ministers on Tuesday it was far from certain that a trade agreement would be reached with the European Union but that Britain woul
BANGKOK, November 17 (Reuters): Thai police fired water cannon and teargas at protesters marching on parliament on Tuesday, and at least 18 people were hurt in the most violent confrontation since a youth-
SEOUL, November 17 (Reuters): South Korea will impose stricter social distancing rules for the greater Seoul area a month after easing them, officials said on Tuesday, warning of an even bigger crisis if a
LIMA, November 17 (Reuters): Peru's Congress on Monday chose legislator Francisco Sagasti as the Andean country's caretaker president, in an attempt to defuse a sharp political crisis after angry p
MOSCOW, November 17 (Reuters): Mutations in the coronavirus are appearing in Siberia, the head of Russia's consumer health watchdog said on Tuesday, as the country reported a record daily high of 442 d
GENEVA, November 17 (Reuters): A "full-scale humanitarian crisis" is unfolding in Ethiopia, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, with more than 27,000 now having fled heavy fighting