ALEM, Ore./MEDFORD, September 11 (Reuters): Around half a million people in Oregon evacuated as dozens of extreme, wind-driven wildfires scorched U.S. West Coast states on Friday, destroying thousands
BARCELONA, September 11 (Reuters): Catalan separatists used an annual festival in their region on Friday to urge the Spanish government to agree to a referendum on independence and an amnesty for jailed an
BOGOTA, September 11 (Reuters): Colombia's defense minister apologized on Friday on behalf of the national police for an incident of police brutality that sparked two nights of protests that rocked par
MADRID, September 11 (Reuters): Spain's High Court sentenced a former army colonel from El Salvador on Friday to 133 years in prison for the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in 1989 during the Cen
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All four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd are due to appear in court on Friday, where a judge will hear arguments on several key issues, including whether the m
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, September 11 (Reuters): Russia and China dismissed on Friday allegations by Microsoft Corp that hackers linked to Moscow and Beijing were trying to spy on people tied to both U.S. Presid
BRUSSELS, September 11 (Reuters): The European Commission will propose that the European Union sets a 2030 target of cutting its net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% against 1990 levels, according
LONDON, September 11 (Reuters): The London extradition hearing for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will resume on Monday after one of the lawyers in the case received a negative test result for COVID-19.
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Maria Kolesnikova's decision to rip up her passport and risk prison rather than exile has burnished the musician-turned-politician's status as a hero to the mass protest movement against vete
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 11 (Reuters): Three years ago, Myanmar’s military burned the Rohingya village of Kan Kya to the ground and bulldozed over its remains. Last year, the government eras
BANGKOK, September 11 (Reuters): Authorities in Thailand tightened security on Friday along its border with Myanmar and carried out COVID-19 tests in nearby towns to try to keep the virus out, as Myan
LONDON/BRUSSELS, September 11 (Reuters): The European Union stepped up planning for a 'no-deal' Brexit on Friday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government refused to revoke an ultima
BULAWAYO, September 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): When Smangele Tshuma got divorced after five years of marriage, her in-laws forced her out of the home that she had been living in with her husband in s
MOSCOW, September 11 (Reuters): Russia is not seeking to interfere in the electoral processes of other countries around the world, nor has it in the past, the Kremlin said on Friday, after Microsoft s
WASHINGTON, September 11 (Reuters): A decision by the Trump administration earlier this year to move the flag honoring missing war veterans from a prominent position atop the White House to a less visible
TOKYO, September 11 (Reuters): Months before he announced his resignation, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe set in motion a policy change that could for the first time allow Japan's military to plan for strik
BEIJING/NEW DELHI, September 11 (Reuters): China and India said on Friday they had agreed to de-escalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to restore "peace and tranq
Washington, September 11 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped the 28 million mark, while the deaths have increased to over 908,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Seattle, September 11 (IANS): Hackers with ties to Russia, China and Iran are attacking groups involved with the US presidential election, including people associated with both Joe Biden and Donald Trump for Pr
ZURICH, September 10 (Reuters): AstraZeneca's pause of an experimental vaccine for the coronavirus after the illness of a participant is a "wake-up call" but should not discourage resear