COPENHAGEN, November 4 (Reuters): Denmark will cull its entire herd of up to 17 million mink after a mutation of the coronavirus found in the animals spread to humans, posing risk to any possible future va
BRASILIA, November 4 (Reuters): Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday refrained from commenting on the potential winner of the tight U.S. election, but reiterated his support for President Donald Tr
WARSAW, November 4 (Reuters): Poland announced further restrictions on Wednesday to halt the spread of the coronavirus and said it would impose a full national lockdown if COVID-19 cases continue to surge.
TOKYO, November 4 (Reuters): Japanese health officials have found 164 emaciated dogs crammed into a tiny house in one of the country's worst cases of animal hoarding, an animal rights activist said on
WARSAW, November 4 (Reuters): The Vatican has ordered an investigation into the former archbishop of Gdansk on suspicion of negligence over sex abuse allegations, a month after the pope accepted the r
RIYADH, November 4 (Reuters): Saudi Arabia on Wednesday announced new plans to ease foreign workers' contractual restrictions, abolishing a controversial seven-decade-old sponsorship system known as ka
TEL AVIV, November 4 (Reuters): Malawi said on Tuesday it will open a full embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, becoming the first African nation to do so in the contested city.
In a video statement during a
YANGON, November 4 (Reuters): The Myanmar President Office hit back at the army chief on Wednesday for criticising the government's handling of an upcoming general election, warning that his remarks ri
RIO DE JANEIRO, November 4 (Reuters): State prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro said late on Tuesday they have formally pressed charges against Flavio Bolsonaro, President Jair Bolsonaro's eldest son, over h
BUDAPEST, November 4 (Reuters): Hungary could run out of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients by the middle of next month under the most pessimistic scenario, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staf
WASHINGTON, November 4 (Reuters): The U.S. presidential election hung in the balance on Wednesday, with a handful of states set to decide the outcome in the coming hours or days, even as Donald Trump falsely cl
LONDON/LAGOS/SARAJEVO, November 4 (Reuters): A day after Americans voted in a bitterly contested election, the rest of the world was none the wiser on Wednesday, with millions of votes still to count, the
MUNDRI, South Sudan, November 4 (Reuters): After the worst rains in living memory inundated her fields, South Sudan farmer Alexandra Karama is, like hundreds of thousands of her compatriots, staring h
COLOMBO, November 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): When women at a Sri Lankan garment factory started to develop coughs and fevers, few took it seriously - the South Asian island had few cases of the corona
ADDIS ABABA, November 4 (Reuters): Heavy fighting broke out in Ethiopia's Tigray region on Wednesday, diplomatic sources said, after the prime minister launched military operations in response to what he sa
ABIDJAN, November 4 (Reuters): Police in Ivory Coast surrounded the houses of two of President Alassane Ouattara's main rivals on Tuesday after the government accused them of sedition for creating a paralle
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Despite incomplete results from several battleground states that could determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential race, President Donald Trump proclaimed victory over Democratic challenger Joe Bi
LONDON, November 4 (Reuters): Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc flagged some of President Donald Trump's posts on the U.S. election as votes were still being counted, in a real-time test of their
WASHINGTON, November 4 (Reuters): The United States formally exited the Paris Agreement on Wednesday, fulfilling a years-long promise by President Donald Trump to withdraw the world’s second-largest
YANGON, November 4 (Reuters): Myanmar’s army chief said on Tuesday the civilian government was making "unacceptable mistakes" in the run-up to a pivotal general election on Sunday, the seco