JERUSALEM, November 10 (Reuters): Saeb Erekat, 65, one of the most experienced and high-profile spokesmen for the Palestinian cause over decades of dispute with Israel, died on Tuesday after contracting CO
TOKYO, November 10 (Reuters): The number of suicides in Japan rose in October for the fourth month in a row to the highest level in more than five years, data showed on Tuesday, a trend activists have blam
Washington, November 10 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 50.8 million, while the deaths have surged to 1,262,370, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of Tuesday mor
KABUL, November 10 (Reuters):- The last thing 33-year-old Khatera saw were the three men on a motorcycle who attacked her just after she left her job at a police station in Afghanistan's central Ghazni prov
WASHINGTON, November 10 (Reuters): US President Donald Trump said on Monday he had "terminated" Defense Secretary Mark Esper, signaling he may use his final months in office after defeat at
GENEVA, November 9 (Reuters): A COVID-19 vaccine may be rolled out by March 2021 to the most vulnerable, which along with other advances could fundamentally change the course of the pandemic, a senior Worl
THE HAGUE, November 9 (Reuters): Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci on Monday pleaded not guilty to all war crimes charges brought against him in his first appearance before a judge after being taken int
LA PAZ, November 9 (Reuters): Bolivia's former longtime leader Evo Morales was preparing a return to his country on Monday after a close ally and member of his MAS socialist party was sworn in as
RIO DE JANEIRO, November 9 (Reuters): Latin American children have lost four times more days of education from the coronavirus pandemic than students in the rest of the world, a UNICEF report on Monday sho
MADRID, November 9 (Reuters): Spain's High Court will on Tuesday open the trial of three suspected Islamist militants linked to a 2017 attack in Barcelona which killed 14 people - Spain's deadliest
CHICUZ, Guatemala, November 9 (Reuters): Matilde Ical Chen was toasting tortillas over a wood fire for the midday meal when the landslide ripped through the Guatemalan Mayan indigenous village of Queja, bu
YEREVAN/BAKU, November 9 (Reuters): Armenia reported heavy fighting around a strategic city in Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday, a day after Azerbaijan said it had captured it in a major breakthrough after six w
DANSHA, Ethiopia, November 9 (Reuters): Ethiopia's leader sought to reassure the world on Monday that his country was not heading for civil war despite an escalating military offensive against the rest
WASHINGTON, November 9 (Reuters): President-elect Joe Biden will convene a coronavirus task force on Monday to examine the No. 1 problem confronting him when he takes office in January, while Presiden
WASHINGTON, November 9 (Reuters): Since taking office in January 2017, President Donald Trump has been besieged by civil lawsuits and criminal investigations of his inner circle.
With Democrat Joe Biden
YANGON, November 9 (Reuters): Myanmar’s ruling party led by Aung San Suu Kyi claimed victory on Monday after a general election seen as a referendum on the first democratic government to lead the cou
BEIJING, November 9 (Reuters): China, which has held off on congratulating U.S. presidential election winner Joe Biden even as leaders of other countries have done so, said on Monday it would follow custom
MANILA, NOVEMBER 9 (IANS): At least three inmates were killed and 64 others injured in a riot at a state penitentiary in Philippines' Muntinlupa city on Monday, according to authorities.
The Bureau of Co
LONDON, November 9 (Reuters): Britain could take five to 10 years to properly recover from the pandemic because the COVID-19 financial hit will sap the economy of the firepower it needs to rebuild for Brex
YANGON, November 9 (Reuters): Myanmar's ruling party said on Monday it had won enough seats in parliament to form the next government, after reporting a lead based on its unofficial count of votes from