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Bolivia's interim leader Anez asks ministers to resign after announcing election run

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia's interim President Jeanine Anez has requested the resignation of her ministers in order to face new a "new stage of democratic transition" after the caretaker leader announced she would be a candidate in upcoming elections in May.

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Italy's Salvini fails in bid to seize left's northern stronghold

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's right-wing leader Matteo Salvini failed in his effort to overturn decades of leftist rule in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna on Sunday in an election that brought huge relief to the embattled centre-left.

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Wuhan suspends visa, passports services for Chinese citizens until Jan 30 - government statement

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Wuhan, capital of Hubei province and epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, said it would suspend visa and passport services for Chinese citizens until Jan. 30 to strengthen control of the virus, the city's exit-entry bureau said in a statement on Monday.

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Expert believes China's control measures on Wuhan virus will take effect in 20 days

BEIJING (Xinhua): Momentum of the Wuhan virus epidemic outbreak may decline in 20 days based on the current prevention and control measures of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), a leading virologist said on Sunday (Jan 26).

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With anti-Semitism on the rise, Auschwitz liberation commemorated

WARSAW/OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - World leaders join ageing Holocaust survivors in Poland on Monday to mark 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops, amid concerns over a global resurgence of anti-Semitism.

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Trump told Bolton he wanted to hold Ukraine aid pending help on Biden probe -NYTimes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump told his then-national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security aid to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats, including presidential rival Joe Biden, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

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Schumer says 'John Bolton has the evidence,' urges senate to call impeachment trial witnesses

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday that senior administration officials must testify in President Trump's impeachment trial after a report that Trump told a former aide to hold up military aid to Ukraine pending investigations into political rivals.

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Half of Australians donated to bushfire appeal - survey

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - One in two Australians have donated money to support bushfire relief efforts, a new survey showed over the weekend, with meteorologists warning more hot and dry weather is to return after a heavy rain respite dampened many of the blazes.

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Peruvians elect fractured Congress to replace opposition-led legislature

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvians on Sunday elected a new Congress with some 10 parties represented and no single majority, according to an Ipsos exit poll reported by local news, refilling the empty legislature that was dissolved in September.

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Sorrow and triumph, an Auschwitz survivor's journey back to a former hell

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Jona Laks could smell the burning flesh as she walked towards death at the Auschwitz crematorium. More than 75 years later, aged 90, she has returned to what was the most notorious Nazi death camp of World War Two's Jewish Holocaust.

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Chinese provincial press conference on coronavirus inspires anger, criticism

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - In a rare sign of public discontent with the government, Chinese social media users are venting their anger at the government, after officials from Hubei province, where the coronavirus outbreak began, briefed the media on Sunday.

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France to evacuate citizens from Wuhan by air

PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Sunday it expected to evacuate hundreds of its citizens from the Wuhan area in China, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak.

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Alibaba's Taobao takes down overpriced face masks on its marketplace

(Reuters) - Alibaba's Taobao marketplace said on Sunday that it has removed sales of face masks from shops that show "unstable prices or false advertising", as prices for the products surged as Chinese consumers race to protect themselves from the coronavirus outbreak.

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Dutch Prime Minister apologises for country's role in Holocaust

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Sunday he was sorry for his country's role during the Holocaust and the lack of action against the persecution of Jews, becoming the first Dutch premier to make such an official apology.

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Trump to meet with Netanyahu and Gantz as he readies Mideast peace plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will hold back-to-back meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz on Monday as he prepares to release his long-delayed Middle East peace plan.

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Rabbis call for removal of church at Auschwitz

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Four U.S. rabbis led by New York's Avi Weiss gathered on Sunday in front of a church next to the Nazi German death camp at Birkenau in Poland arguing for its removal from a site where more than a million Jews were murdered.

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Seven killed in truck blast in northern Syria's Azaz - civil defence forces

AZAZ (Reuters) - A truck packed with explosives blew up in the city of Azaz in northern Syria on Sunday, killing seven people and wounded a number of others, civil defence forces said.

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Nearly 50 dead, thousands displaced as storms lash southeast of Brazil

BRASILIA (Reuters) - At least 46 people have died in Brazil and more than 25,000 have been displaced due to widespread flooding following storms and heavy rains that have swept across the south east of the country, authorities said on Sunday.

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Michael Avenatti faces the trial of his life - his own

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Avenatti shot to fame from obscurity two years ago by taking to the airwaves as an outspoken, self-described nemesis of Donald Trump while representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against the U.S. president.

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Trump wanted aid to Ukraine frozen until it helped on probes of political rivals - NYTimes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump told a then-top aide in August he wanted to freeze security aid to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats, including former Vice President Joe Biden, the New York Times reported on Sunday.