FILE PHOTO: A United States Postal Service (USPS) truck is seen in the rain in Manhattan during the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, New York, USA. , April 13, 2020. REUTERS / Andrew Kelly WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior Democrats in a House Oversight Committee wrote to …
Read More »Belarusian presidential candidate sends her children abroad after threats
MINSK (Reuters) – The main opposition presidential candidate in Belarus sent her children abroad to an undisclosed location in the EU after receiving threats that they would be taken from them unless she quits her career, an opposition journalist said . FILE PHOTO: Candidate in the upcoming presidential election Svetlana …
Read More »EU leaders struggle with ‘mission impossible’ at stalled recovery summit
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU leaders found themselves at a standstill on Monday after three days of haggling over a plan to revive economies strangled by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the president of his summit nearly set a record he urged them to give one last push on “mission impossible”. Charles …
Read More »Leaking border: tourists and quarantine cheats threaten Canada amid U.S. COVID-19 surge.
OTTAWA / VANCOUVER (Reuters) – For 67 days, little Prince Edward Island was without a single new case of COVID-19. That changed earlier this month when Canada’s smallest province, better known as the fictional house of Anne of Green Gables, announced a group of new cases linked to a foreign …
Read More »Democracy activist Joshua Wong launches a nomination for the Hong Kong legislature
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Leading Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong applied on Monday to run for a seat in the Chinese-ruled city legislature, raising the possibility of a battle with authorities after that he was banned from participating in previous surveys. Wong is one of more than a dozen …
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