BLANTYRE, Malawi, August 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): A senior traditional leader in Malawi has ordered village chiefs to dissolve all the child marriages that took place during the country's coron
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WASHINGTON, August 26 (Reuters): U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised President Donald Trump's foreign policy record in a Republican National Convention speech on Tuesday that Democrats criticiz
WELLINGTON, August 26 (Reuters): One of the heroes of the Christchurch terror attack confronted gunman Brenton Tarrant on the third day of sentencing hearings on Wednesday, telling him: "You should th
BANGKOK, August 26 (Reuters): Thailand's digital minister vowed no relent on Wednesday in a crackdown on social media content deemed illegal and said it was unlikely Facebook would follow through on pl
MINSK, August 26 (Reuters): Belarusian police have rounded up dozens of protesters heading home from peaceful demonstrations, rights groups said on Wednesday, after days in which the authorities exercised
TAIPEI/BEIJING, August 26 (Reuters): Numerous Chinese and U.S. military exercises, Taiwan missiles tracking Chinese fighters and plummeting China-U.S. ties make for a heady cocktail of tension that is rais
TOKYO, August 26 (Reuters): Japanese researchers said on Wednesday that low concentrations of ozone can neutralise coronavirus particles, potentially providing a way for hospitals to disinfect examination
TOKYO, August 26 (Reuters): An excavation in the western Japanese city of Osaka has unearthed more than 1,500 human bones at what is thought to be a burial site dating back some 160 years, city officials h
KENOSHA, Wis., August 26 (Reuters): A third night of street protests over the police shooting of a Black man erupted into gun violence late Tuesday and early Wednesday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, killing at least on
Washington, August 26 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 23.8 million, while the deaths have increased to over 818,000 according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Wednesda
New York, August 26 (IANS): Under a clear night sky, with the sound of crickets for company and an adoring crowd of Donald Trump acolytes in attendance, US First Lady Melania Trump starred on the second night o
MOSCOW, August 25 (Reuters): The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament on Tuesday ordered one of its committees to probe whether foreign forces were behind the alleged poisoning of Kremlin crit
AMSTERDAM/BRUSSELS, August 25 (Reuters): Two European patients are confirmed to have been re-infected with the coronavirus, raising concerns about people's immunity to the virus as the world struggles
MINSK, August 25 (Reuters): Belarus jailed two opposition leaders for 10 days on Tuesday as the government pursued a crackdown on the few figures still at large, while schoolteachers led a new protest of t
PAYERNE, Switzerland, August 25 (Reuters): A parachutist completed the world's first jump from a solar-powered aircraft on Tuesday after the plane soared to a height of 1,520 metres (nearly 5,000 ft) o
UNITED NATIONS, AUGUST 25 (IANS): A top UN official has called for attention to new challenges brought by the global coronavirus pandemic to counter-terrorism efforts. "This pandemic environment raises
MEXICO CITY, August 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The arrest of three Mexican women accused of trafficking more than 20 children from within their extended family has been criticized by rights activists
DUBAI, August 25 (Reuters): If the United States wants an agreement with Iran, it must first come back to Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with six powers that Washington abandoned two years ago, Iranian Pre
KABUL, August 25 (Reuters): Taliban insurgents set off a truck bomb on Tuesday in an attack on Afghan army commandos, killing three people and wounding 41, the defence ministry said, despite steps towards
MOSCOW, August 25 (Reuters): The Kremlin said on Tuesday it saw no need for now to investigate the circumstances leading up to opposition politician Alexei Navalny's illness and that a German clinic
