KUWAIT, October 20 (Reuters): Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah called on Tuesday for national unity to meet challenges facing the Gulf state, in a speech to lawmakers ahead of elections on
JERUSALEM, October 20 (Reuters): In an historic first visit by a Gulf Arab nation, a United Arab Emirates delegation arrived in Israel on Tuesday to cement the normalisation deal signed last month.
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BEIJING, October 20 (Reuters): China's foreign ministry said the United States should immediately stop interfering in its internal affairs, after the leader of the head of the Tibetan government-in-exi
WASHINGTON, October 20 (Reuters) - The final debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden will feature a mute button to allow each candidate to speak uninterrupted, organizers said on Mo
Washington, October 20 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has increased to 40.3 million, while the deaths have soared to 1,117,430, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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LAS VEGAS/WASHINGTON, October 19 (Reuters): U.S. President Donald Trump blasted coronavirus expert Anthony Fauci as a "disaster" on Monday in a conference call with campaign workers and sought to
PARIS, October 19 (Reuters): French police on Monday raided Islamic associations and foreigners suspected of extremist religious beliefs, police sources said, three days after a suspected Islamist beheaded
AMARA, Iraq, October 19 (Reuters): Hasanain Alminshid had received death threats for his human rights activism for years, but ignored most of them. After his mentor was gunned down outside a police station
LONDON/BRUSSELS, October 19 (Reuters): Britain and the European Union agreed on Monday to intensify trade talks and work on legal texts, a breakthrough of sorts after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said
WELLINGTON, October 19 (Reuters): New Zealand's next parliament is set to be the most inclusive ever, with several people of colour, members from the rainbow communities and a high number of women.
BAKU/YEREVAN, October 19 (Reuters): A new ceasefire in the mountain territory of Nagorno-Karabakh was in jeopardy on Monday with Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces reporting shelling and heavy fighting.
CORAL GABLES, Fla., October 19 (Reuters): Early voting began on Monday in Florida, a battleground state that could decide the Nov. 3 presidential election, while a record 28 million Americans already have
YANGON, October 19 (Reuters): Insurgents from western Myanmar on Monday claimed responsibility for the kidnapping last week of three ruling party candidates in conflict-torn Rakhine state, and demanded the
BRUSSELS/BERLIN/LONDON, October 19 (Reuters): With less than three weeks until the U.S. presidential election, European capitals are concerned about the risk of a disputed outcome and the impact it would h
CARDIFF, October 19 (Reuters): Wales will impose a two-week "fire-break" lockdown from Friday in which everybody apart from essential workers must stay at home to combat an accelerating second wa
YANGON, October 19 (Reuters): After spending years in confinement, few understand uncertainty, isolation and family separation better than Myanmar's former political prisoners.
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WARSAW, October 19 (Reuters): Poland plans to open a temporary hospital at Warsaw's landmark national stadium to ease the strain on the healthcare system from spiking coronavirus cases, the government said
PARIS, October 19 (Reuters): More police operations were under way on Monday in connection with the killing of a French teacher by a suspected Islamist, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
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HANOI, October 19 (Reuters): Vietnamese soldiers with heavy machinery and rescue dogs searched on Monday for the last remaining troops buried under a mudslide, after recovering 18 bodies from the latest in
NEW DELHI, October 19 (Reuters): The head of the Tibetan government in exile said he met the new U.S. special coordinator on Tibet, whose appointment last week angered China, at the State Department, the first