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Hiding from Myanmar's police, journalist Aung Marm Oo refuses to conceal his anger with the civilian government led by Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as his country prepares for an election late
BANGKOK, June 12 (Reuters): A single mother in Thailand is doing brisk business out of face shields with characters from cartoons, games and sci-fi movies, hoping to cash in and promote safety for children
SKOPJE, June 12 (Reuters): North Macedonia's president lifted a state of emergency on Friday that was introduced to contain the coronavirus, a move that paves the way for a parliamentary election.
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TOKYO, June 12 (Reuters): Japan aims to launch a smartphone app based on technology from Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google next week to help curb the spread of coronavirus by tracking close contact w
MINSK, June 12 (Reuters): The leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, on Friday accused his political rival Viktor Babariko of corruption but denied trying to block Babariko from standing against him
WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters): The Trump administration plans to reinterpret a Cold War-era arms agreement between 34 nations with the goal of allowing U.S. defense contractors to sell more American-made d
BEIJING, June 12 (Reuters): Beijing shut six major wholesale food markets on Friday and delayed plans for some students to return to school after China's capital reported new coronavirus infections for
NEW YORK, June 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The coronavirus pandemic has put millions of children at risk of being pushed into underage labor, reversing two decades of work to combat the practice and p
WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters): President Donald Trump on Thursday authorized U.S. economic and travel sanctions against International Criminal Court employees involved in an investigation into whether Amer
JERUSALEM, June 12 (Reuters): Israel cannot expect to normalise relations with the Arab world if it annexes land in the occupied West Bank, a United Arab Emirates envoy wrote in Israel's top newspaper
LONDON, June 12 (Reuters): Fears of a second wave of COVID-19 infections grew on Friday with a record daily increase in India, warnings against complacency in Europe and word from half a dozen U.S. states
HONG KONG, June 12 (Reuters): The Hong Kong government and China's foreign ministry branch in the city hit back on Friday at a report by Britain criticising Beijing's plans for national security le
MOSCOW, June 12 (Reuters): President Vladimir Putin appealed to what he termed Russians' core values on Friday, the country's national day, as he sought to rally support for a vote on constitutiona
London, June 12 (IANS): A statue of late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London was boarded up as anti-racism and far-right groups both plan protests in the UK capital this weekend, a media report s
New York, June 12 (IANS): A woman in the US has said that 'Blue Lives Murder' shirts available for sale on e-commerce giant Amazon are hate speech, according to a report. For the woman named Ceteka
Seoul, June 12 (IANS): South Korea on Friday reported 56 new COVID-19 cases, with most of them in the Seoul metropolitan area, forcing health authorities to indefinitely extend toughened infection preventive me
Kabul, June 12 (IANS): Four people were killed and a few others injured as a bomb blast ripped through a mosque in Kabul, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Tareq Arian said.
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Washington, June 12 (IANS): The US has pledged that it would continue reducing its forces in Iraq and confirmed that it does not seek permanent military presence in the country, said a joint statement on Friday
Washington, June 12 (IANS) The global number of COVID-19 cases has increased to over 7.5 million, while the death toll was nearing 421,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters): A divided Senate Judiciary Committee approved sweeping subpoena power on Thursday for a politically charged congressional probe of an FBI investigation into Republican Presid