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British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was tried on a new charge of making "propaganda against the system" at Iran's Revolutionary court on Sunday, her lawyer said, one week after she completed a five-year jail sentence.

* Decision likely to delay country's efforts to remove liability for some of the debt

3 Min Read (Reuters) - Central African Republic will vote in a second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday under high security after a surge in rebel violence surrounding December’s polls. President Faustin-Archange Touadera greets supporters after highest court confirmed his re-election at his party headquarter in Bangui, Central Africa Republic January 18, 2021. REUTERS/Antoine Rolland Insurgents laid siege to the capital Bangui in January, strangling food supply routes, forcing more...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read DAKAR (Reuters) - Avima Iron Ore Limited said on Thursday it had written to Congo Republic’s government to demand it either reinstate the company’s production licence that was stripped last November or pay damages of $27 billion. Avima’s iron ore licence was one of three that Congo’s government revoked late last year and handed to a little-known company backed by Chinese investment called Sangha Mining Development Sasu. The government said the companies had f...

* Decision a set back to Mozambique's efforts to remove liability for some of the debt

Montenegro appealed to the European Union and NATO to send it medical workers to help exhausted health services battle a surge in the COVID-19 pandemic in the tiny Adriatic nation, its leading newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Armenia's government said the dismissal of a top army general at the centre of a political crisis went into effect on Wednesday, almost two weeks after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan fired him and accused the military of a coup attempt.

The Czech Republic will get 100,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from France by mid-March, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis told CTK news agency on Thursday.

The Czech Republic has declined an offer to buy AstraZeneca Plc's coronavirus vaccines from an intermediary in the United Arab Emirates, Czech officials said on Wednesday.

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read PRAGUE, March 3 (Reuters) - The Czech Republic has declined an offer to buy AstraZeneca Plc’s coronavirus vaccines from an intermediary in the United Arab Emirates, Czech officials said on Wednesday. Health Minister Jan Blatny said the offer was not officially from the UAE but that it came from an unnamed third party. “An offer arrived from this country from an intermediary, for a purchase from India,” he said on Twitter. “It concerned a batch that does not h...