NAIROBI, November 11 (Reuters): Thousands of Ethiopian refugees were fleeing into neighbouring Sudan on Wednesday as federal troops continued to battle local forces in the closed-off northern Tigray region
LIMA, November 11 (Reuters): The head of Peru's Congress, Manuel Merino, was sworn in as the Andean nation's president on Tuesday, and vowed that elections set for April would stand after lawmakers
HONG KONG, November 11 (Reuters): Hong Kong expelled four opposition members from its legislature on Wednesday after Beijing gave city authorities new powers to curb dissent, raising the prospect of a walk
CANBERRA, NOVEMBER 11 (IANS): Australian police said that they have rescued 46 children and arrested 14 men after a probe into an international child abuse network.
The victims were allegedly subjected to cr
AMMAN, November 11 (Reuters): Syrian President Bashar al Assad on Wednesday blamed U.S. sanctions and pressure on the United Nations and Syria's neighbours for the reticence of more than 5 million refu
VATICAN CITY, November 11 (Reuters): Pope Francis, in his first public comment after the release of an explosive report on the Vatican's mishandling of the case of ex-U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick,
YANGON, November 11 (Reuters): Myanmar's biggest opposition party on Wednesday said it would not recognise this week's general election and urged authorities to hold another vote, with the help of
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 11 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 51.3 million, while the deaths have surged to 1,270,170, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of Wednesday m
WASHINGTON, November 11 (Reuters): President-elect Joe Biden plans further meetings on Wednesday to lay the groundwork for his new administration while President Donald Trump pursues a flurry of lawsuits c
MOSCOW, November 11 (Reuters): Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is 92% effective at protecting people from COVID-19 according to interim trial results, the country's sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesd
DUBAI, November 11 (Reuters): Bahrain's Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa, the world's longest serving prime minister and a staunch ally of neighbouring Saudi Arabia and the United States, has d
MANILA, November 10 (Reuters): Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead a radio journalist outside his home in the Philippines on Tuesday, police said, four years after the broadcaster survived a near-identica
NEW YORK, November 10 (Reuters): Work to distribute the experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE is gearing up after the companies announced successful interim data earlier on
YANGON, November 10 (Reuters): Myanmar's military-backed opposition said on Tuesday there had been "many contentious events" during a parliamentary election two days ago which the ruling part
LONDON, November 10 (Reuters): Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20% of those infected with the
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When U.S. law student Areeb Khan tried to sign into the online portal to take his practice bar exam, he was met with a strange message: "Due to poor lighting we are unable to
LONDON, NOVEMBER 10 (Reuters): A trove of 240 rare books worth over $3.3 million have been returned to their owners after they were stolen in London by a gang of Romanian men who abseiled down from a warehouse
MOSCOW/YEREVAN/BAKU, November 10 (Reuters): Russian peacekeeping troops deployed to the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as part of a ceasefire deal to end six weeks of heavy fighting betwee
JOHANNESBURG, November 10 (Reuters): South African police have issued a warrant for the arrest on corruption charges of Ace Magashule, a top official of the governing African National Congress party, a spo
TOKYO/SEOUL/MANILA, November 10 (Reuters): With tropical heat, remote island communities and a dearth of ultra-cold freezers, many Asian countries aren't betting on Pfizer's experimental vaccine so