SANTA ROSA, Calif., September 29 (Reuters): A northern California wildfire raging in the foothills of the Cascade range has claimed three lives, officials said on Monday, as a separate blaze prompted mass
LAGOS, September 29 (Reuters): The head of Poland's Auschwitz Memorial has written to Nigeria's president offering to serve part of a 10-year jail term handed to a 13-year-old boy for blasphemy.
MOSCOW, September 29 (Reuters): Russia plans to share preliminary results of its COVID-19 vaccine trial based on the first six weeks of monitoring participants, raising the tempo in an already frenzied glo
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The global coronavirus death toll surpassed a million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, a bleak statistic in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overloaded health systems and t
KUWAIT, September 29 (Reuters): Kuwait's emir, an unwavering champion of Arab detente amid wars and regional tumult, helped lead his country out of the ruin of Iraq's 1990 invasion to renewed riche
KUWAIT, September 29 (Reuters): Kuwait's ruling Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah has died, his office said in a statement read out on state television on Tuesday.
Sheikh Sabah, 91, had ruled
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Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden will square off for the first time on Tuesday in a pivotal debate that will provide a stark clash of styles and the prospect of a fier
ATHENS, September 29 (Reuters): U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged NATO allies Greece and Turkey on Tuesday to press ahead with talks to resolve their dispute over maritime boundaries as soon as pos
BAKU/YEREVAN, September 29 (Reuters): Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Tuesday of firing into each other's territory, far from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, as the worst spate of figh
JOHANNESBURG, September 29 (Reuters): Africa's overburdened public health systems, dearth of testing facilities and overcrowded slums had experts predicting a disaster when COVID-19 hit the continent i
BUDAPEST, September 29 (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called for the resignation of European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova over what he described as her "derogatory public s
HARARE, September 29 (Reuters): Zimbabwe plans to send brain tissue samples from dead elephants to the United States to test for toxic micro-organisms blamed for hundreds of elephant deaths in neighbouring
WASHINGTON, September 29 (Reuters): U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rallying Democrats to prepare for a once-in-a-century election scenario requiring Congress to decide the outcome of
WASHINGTON, September 29 (Reuters): A report that Donald Trump paid little or no federal income tax in recent years sparked broad outrage on Monday, from rich Democrats to teachers and coffee shop workers
BOON RUEANG, Thailand, September 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The villagers of Ban Boon Rueang in northern Thailand had long known that they benefited from the community wetland forest that supplied them wi
New Delhi, September 29 (ANI): The global death toll of COVID-19 has crossed one million-mark, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The respiratory disease was first reported in the Chinese city
Washington, September 29 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus has surpassed 33.2 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 1,000,820, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of
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Some 120 million rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19 will be made available to low- and middle-income countries over a period of six months and will be priced at a maximum of $5 per unit, the World H
PALAISEAU, France, September 28 (Reuters): A schoolteacher whose body, face and tongue are covered in tattoos and who has had the whites of his eyes surgically turned black said he was prevented from
WASHINGTON, September 28 (Reuters): U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday Trump he paid "many millions of dollars in taxes" but was entitled to depreciation and tax credits and also said he