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Save the Children, others suspend Afghanistan efforts after Taliban bar on female staff
KABUL (Reuters) - Three big international aid agencies including Save the Children said on Sunday they were suspending their humanitarian programmes in Afghanistan in response to the Taliban-run admin...
Dec 25, 2022
Bloomberg has no interest in acquiring Dow Jones or the Washington Post, spokesman says
(Reuters) - Bloomberg L.P. confirmed on Sunday that it has no interest in acquiring either Dow Jones or the Washington Post, a Bloomberg L.P. spokesman said in a tweet. "There have been no conversatio...
Dec 25, 2022
Iran’s Guards arrest seven people linked to UK over protests – statement
DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran's Revolutionary Guards arrested seven people on Sunday, including dual nationals linked to the United Kingdom, over anti-government protests that have rocked the country, accordi...
Dec 25, 2022
Brazil election-denier camps ‘incubators of terrorism,’ new minister says
By Gabriel Stargardter RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Election-denying protesters camping outside Brazilian army bases have become "incubators of terrorism," Brazil's incoming justice minister said on Sun...
Dec 25, 2022
At least 180 Rohingya feared dead – U.N. refugee agency
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - At least 180 ethnic Rohingya stranded at sea for weeks after leaving Bangladesh in November are feared dead, as their rickety boat is thought to have sunk this month, the United ...
Dec 25, 2022
Ukrainian soldier reunites with family over Christmas call from east
By Vitalii Hnidyi and Herbert Villarraga KHARKIV/KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Leonid Onyshchenko, a gruff-voiced 63-year-old Ukrainian soldier with a thick moustache, has spent many a Christmas...
Dec 25, 2022
At least 3 dead, 4 missing in Spain after bus plunges off bridge into river
MADRID (Reuters) - At least three people died and four were missing after a passenger bus careened off a bridge and plunged into a river in northwestern Spain, local emergency services said on Sunday....
Dec 25, 2022
Paris shooting suspect expressed ‘hatred of foreigners’, says prosecutor
PARIS (Reuters) - The suspect detained over the killing of three Kurdish people in Paris told investigators of his "hatred of foreigners", the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday. The 69-year-old man was ...
Dec 25, 2022
Nepal’s ex-guerrilla chief set to become new prime minister
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A former Maoist guerrilla who led a decade-long insurgency against Nepal's Hindu monarchy will take over as prime minister in alliance with the main opposition af...
Dec 25, 2022
China must raise self-reliance in agricultural technology, Xi says
BEIJING (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping wants China to accelerate efforts to achieve self-reliance in agricultural technology, identifying seed development and core equipment among areas to focus on,...
Dec 25, 2022
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