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
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Britain's Oxford University said on Monday initial findings from a study on the long term impact of COVID-19 has found that a large number of patients discharged from hospitals still experience s
Washington, October 19 (IANS): Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has said that US President Donald Trump continues to "lie about the circumstances" of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country
Washington, October 19 (IANS): Anthony Fauci, America's top infectious disease expert, said that he was not surprised that US President Donald Trump had tested positive for the novel coronavirus after the S
KARACHI, Pakistan, October 19 (Reuters): Tens of thousands of opposition supporters rallied in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi on Sunday as part of a campaign to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan, who
PARIS, October 19 (Reuters): A campaign by coronavirus-stricken aviation giants to persuade the world it's safe to fly has been questioned by one of the scientists whose research it draws upon.
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BANGKOK, October 19 (Reuters): Thai police said on Monday they had ordered an investigation of four news outlets under emergency measures introduced last week and imposed curbs on messaging app Telegram to
LA PAZ, October 19 (Reuters): Bolivia's socialist candidate Luis Arce looks set to win the country's presidential election without the need for a run-off, an unofficial count indicated on Mond