British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) welcomes US President Donald Trump (L) to the NATO summit at the Grove Hotel in Watford, north-east London on 4 December 2019. Peter Nicholls | AFP | Getty Images The UK government has rejected a report that it plans to end a tax on …
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Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott to speak on the first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention. Chris Keane | Reuters The Republican National Convention of 2020 kicks off Monday when President Donald Trump makes his case for re-election during an …
Read More »German doctors say tests indicate Kremlin critic Navalny was poisoned
BERLIN (Reuters) – German doctors say on Monday that medical investigations indicate that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who is in a Berlin hospital after crashing into a plane in Russia last week, was poisoned. Medical specialists carry Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on a stretcher in an ambulance en …
Read More »TikTok pleads US government over Trump ban
TikTok app Narinder Nanu | AFP | Getty Images TikTok, the video-sharing application owned by China-based ByteDance, on Monday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to ban the company’s U.S. operations. In a blog post, TikTok claimed that the ban prevented the company from …
Read More »New Covid-19 cases in the US fall to lowest level in more than two months
The number of new coronavirus infections in the US dropped from a day earlier, reached its lowest level in more than two months and recorded a ninth straight day with less than 50,000 new cases. The nation reported 34,567 new cases on Sunday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins …
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