HONG KONG, June 16 (Reuters): Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday urged opponents of Beijing's plan to impose national security legislation in the financial hub to stop "smearing" the effo
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GENEVA, June 16 (Reuters): U.N. human rights experts said on Tuesday that Israel's plan to annex significant parts of the occupied West Bank would violate international law banning the taking of territory b
GENEVA, June 16 (Reuters): The origins of a new cluster of coronavirus infections in Beijing are uncertain, World Health Organization officials said on Monday, but the claim that it might have been caused
GENEVA, June 16 (Reuters): African countries are lobbying to set up a United Nations commission of inquiry into "systemic racism" and "police brutality" in the United States and other p
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Carolina, a Brazilian mother, hasn't heard anything from her jailed son since March when authorities banned prison visits due to the coronavirus ou
SINGAPORE, June 16 (Reuters): Singapore will halt construction of the fifth terminal at its Changi Airport for at least two years to assess how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact the aviation sector and the
CAIRO, June 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The death of a high-profile Egyptian LGBT+ activist who sought asylum in Canada after being jailed for waving the rainbow flag was mourned on Monday by follower
HARARE, June 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Martha Kahari was already struggling to make ends meet after Zimbabwe's coronavirus lockdown forced her to stop selling second-hand clothes and tomato
SEOUL, June 16 (Reuters): North Korea blew up an office set up to foster better ties with South Korea in its border town of Kaesong on Tuesday after it threatened to take action if North Korean defectors went a
WELLINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - New Zealand said on Tuesday that it has two new cases of the coronavirus, both related to recent travel from the UK, ending a 24-day streak of no new infections in the country.
BEIJING, June 16 (Reuters) - Beijing banned high-risk people from leaving the Chinese capital and halted some transportation services on Tuesday to stop the spread of a fresh coronavirus outbreak to other citie
Washington, June 16 (IANS) The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has topped the 8 million mark, while the death toll surged to over 436,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of T
London, June 16 (IANS) As non-essential stores reopened and more students headed back to schools in England on Monday for the first time in almost three-months, a new rule also came into force in requiring peop
WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters): The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered a watershed victory for LGBT rights and a defeat for President Donald Trump's administration by ruling that a longstanding federal l
MOSCOW, June 15 (Reuters): Five senior editors at Vedomosti, one of Russia's most prominent business newspapers, resigned on Monday in protest at the appointment of an editor-in-chief they say has appl
KATHMANDU, June 15 (Reuters): Nepal will deport five foreign tourists and ban them from entering the Himalayan nation for two years after they joined protests against the government's response to the c
DHAKA, June 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Rohingya refugees attempting to reach Malaysia by boat from Bangladesh are being held hostage by human traffickers who have demanded large ransoms from their relativ
CAIRO, June 15 (Reuters): Sudan's public prosecutor said Monday a mass grave has been discovered east of the capital Khartoum, allegedly containing students killed in 1998 who tried escaping military servic
Reuters A specific mutation in the new coronavirus can significantly increase its ability to infect cells, according to a study by U.S. researchers. The research may explain why early
WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters): As police confront protesters across the United States, they're turning to rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas and other weapons meant to minimize fatalities.
