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Mr Johnson and Ms von der Leyen were due to speak again at lunchtime on Sunday to take stock of the negotiations and make a decision on how to proceed.Europe's two most powerful leaders, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President…

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - The Nigerian military on Saturday waged a gun battle with armed men who kidnapped dozens of secondary school students in northwestern Katsina state the night before, the country's president said.President…

Paolo Rossi: Italy's 1982 World Cup hero dies at the age of 64

Up to 300,000 coronavirus cases in the United States can be traced back to a two-day conference in Boston attended by 175 biotech executives in February, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.The conference,…

Poland has been rocked by weeks of protests against a Constitutional Court ruling that all but banned abortion. The ruling banning dismissal even for fetal defects has not yet come into force, but critics say it will encourage even more…

Iran executed a dissident on Saturday after condemning him for encouraging a wave of anti-government protests in 2017 through an opposition telegram channel it operated from exile in France, Iranian news agencies reported.Ruhollah Zam ran…

British Minister Alok Sharma says world leaders are not showing the necessary level of ambition.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - On a bright day in mid-November, about a dozen police officers with machine guns stormed into the home of Lisanewerk Desta, a theologian who heads the library and museum division of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church at…

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