Brazil was given 15 days to outline how they have worked to protect the Yanomami and Yekuana indigenous peoples
BRASILIA, July 21 (Reuters) - A commission linked to the Organization of American State
KHARTOUM, July 21 (Reuters): Ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir appeared in court Tuesday at the opening of his trial for leading the military coup that brought him to power in 1989, before the heari
ANKARA, July 21 (Reuters): President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkish forces, which have carried out several incursions into northern Syria since 2016, would remain in the country until Syrians
SEOUL, July 21 (Reuters): South Korean epidemiologists have found that people were more likely to contract the new coronavirus from members of their own households than from contacts outside the home.
STOCKHOLM, JULY 21 (IANS): Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has said she will donate 100,000 euros ($114,000) to help tackle the spread of the coronavirus in the Amazon rainforest.
Thunberg announced
SOFIA, July 21 (Reuters): Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's centre-right government survived a no-confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday that was called during a wave of anti-corruption prote
LONDON, July 21 (Reuters): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was holding his first face-to-face cabinet meeting of top ministers since March 17 on Tuesday, underlining his push to encourage others to go
BEIJING, July 21 (Reuters): China will strive to make up economic losses caused by the coronavirus epidemic and achieve good results for growth this year, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday, according to
BEIRUT, July 21 (Reuters): A pioneering academic at Lebanon's most distinguished university, Charlotte Karam has enjoyed professional success that has made her decision to leave the country all the mor
MAGDEBURG, Germany, July 21 (Reuters): A 28-year old man accused of murdering two people after opening fire on a synagogue in eastern Germany on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur last year was led into a c
TOKYO, July 21 (Reuters): The United States is conducting two military exercises in Asian waters this week involving allies Japan, Australia and India, the U.S. navy said on Tuesday.
The exercises come
LONDON, July 21 (Reuters): Russia meddled in the 2014 Scottish referendum and the British government failed to ask for a deep assessment of possible Kremlin-directed interference in the Brexit vote, the Br
ISLAMABAD, July 21 (Reuters): Pakistan's telecommunications regulator issued a "final warning" to short-form video app TikTok on Monday over explicit content posted on the platform, while liv
BANGKOK, July 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Thai agricultural workers in Israel will be at greater risk of labour abuses under a new partnership between the governments, advocates said, voicing concerns
LONDON, July 21 (Reuters): The University of Oxford's possible COVID-19 vaccine could be rolled out by the end of the year but there is no certainty that will happen, the lead developer of the vaccine
BRUSSELS, July 21 (Reuters): European Union leaders reached a deal on a massive stimulus plan for their coronavirus-blighted economies at a pre-dawn meeting on Tuesday after a fractious summit that went th
MANILA, July 21 (Reuters): The Philippines said on Tuesday it would ramp up testing for the novel coronavirus amid a sharp rise in infections and deaths since a lockdown was eased in June, while President
BEIJING, July 21 (Reuters): China said on Tuesday it would respond strongly to Britain's suspension of its extradition treaty for Chinese-ruled Hong Kong, and called on the UK to immediately correct it
Geneva, July 21 (IANS) The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that his organization is deeply concerned about the impact of COVID-19 on indigenous peoples in the Americas, the current epicenter o
Washington, July 21 (IANS) The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has increased to over 14.6 million, while the deaths have topped to more than 609,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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