MOSCOW, June 10 (Reuters): President Vladimir Putin's opponents agree a nationwide vote next month that could extend his rule is a sham, but are split over whether to campaign for a "No" vote
WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters): The White House on Wednesday defended President Donald Trump's promotion of an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory about a 75-year-old protester injured by police in Buffalo, sa
ADDIS ABABA, June 10 (Reuters): Ethiopia's parliament approved on Wednesday an extra year in office for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed after August elections were postponed, two days after a leading opposition p
HOUSTON, June 10 (Reuters): Protesters will take to the streets across the United States again on Wednesday one day after the funeral of George Floyd, whose death in police custody has ignited the biggest
ANKARA, June 10 (Reuters): Turkey on Wednesday dismissed Egypt's proposal for a ceasefire in Libya, saying the plan aimed to save Khalifa Haftar after the collapse of his offensive to control the capit
TEL AVIV, June 10 (Reuters): Israel's Supreme Court struck down a law on Tuesday that had retroactively legalised about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupie
LONDON, June 10 (Reuters): Prince Philip, the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth for more than seven decades, celebrates his 99th birthday on Wednesday, although there will be little public fanfare t
SEOUL, June 10 (Reuters): The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is taking a leading role in a new, more hard-line pressure campaign against South Korea, highlighting what analysts say is a substant
SINGAPORE, June 10 (Reuters): Singapore's Tychan, a biotechnology firm backed by state investor Temasek Holdings, said it will begin human clinical trials next week for a potential monoclonal antibody
SYDNEY, June 10 (Reuters): The world's largest population of nesting green turtles is nearly twice as big as previously thought, scientists said on Wednesday, after drones enabled better surveys of the
HONG KONG, June 10 (Reuters): Hong Kong police arrested 53 people during protests on Tuesday evening that saw hundreds of activists take to the streets, at times blocking roads in the heart of the global f
TOKYO, June 10 (Reuters): Japan wants to take the lead among Group of Seven nations on issuing a statement about the situation in Hong Kong, where China is imposing a new security law, Prime Minister
LONDON, June 10 (Reuters): Population-wide face mask use could push COVID-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics, and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when co
SEOUL, June 10 (Reuters): A day after North Korea suspended communication hotlines with South Korea over defectors who send propaganda and contraband into the North, South Korea said it would take leg
JAKARTA, June 10 (Reuters): Indonesia reported on Wednesday its biggest daily increase in coronavirus cases for a second successive day, with 1,241 new infections, taking its total to 34,316.
June 10 (Reuters) - Studies show people with the coronavirus are most infectious just at the point when they first begin to feel unwell, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Tuesday, making it so har
United Nations, June 10 (IANS) United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the number of people who are acutely food or nutrition insecure will rapidly expand.
"There is more
Houston, June 10 (IANS) The funeral of African American George Floyd was held in the southern US city of Houston, where he was brought up and spent most of his life, two weeks after his tragic death in police c
SEOUL, June 9 (Reuters): North Korea said on Tuesday it would sever hotlines with South Korea as the first step toward shutting down all contact.
The decision, announced by the KCNA state news agen
NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters): United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday told staff they were not banned from joining anti-racism demonstrations sweeping the United States and other countries, in a let