LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said Thursday that Russia had attempted to interfere in its 2019 general election by raising an online scandal over unlawfully acquired confidential documents about a planned free trade agreement with Washington. FILE PHOTO: A Russian flag is seen on the laptop screen in front of a …
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A statue of a UK Black Lives Matter protester was removed on Thursday, just a day after it replaced a monument to 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston. The video shows helmets in Bristol carefully removing the statue of protester Jen Reid with her fist in the air around 5:20 am, …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The reservoir behind Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam is filling up, its water minister said on Wednesday, a day after talks with Sudan and Egypt over the giant Blue Nile hydroelectric project . A satellite image of the brochure shows a close-up view of the Ethiopian Great …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said Thursday that the world needed economic reform to have a chance to beat climate change and that countries should be prepared to break old agreements and contracts to meet green goals. The 17-year-old spoke to Reuters TV after she and other activists …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia plans to produce 30 million doses of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine domestically this year, with the potential to manufacture another 170 million abroad, the head of the country’s sovereign wealth fund told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Kirill Dmitriev, director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), attends …
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