BRASILIA, November 13 (Reuters): Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon increased in October for the first time in four months, government data showed on Friday, as destruction of the world's larges
WASHINGTON, November 13 (Reuters): Hackers working for the Russian and North Korean governments have targeted more than half a dozen organizations involved in COVID-19 treatment and vaccine research around
JAKARTA, November 13 (Reuters): Indonesia has sought emergency authorisation to start a mass vaccination campaign by the end of the year to combat the coronavirus in the archipelago, the Southeast Asian na
LIMA, November 13 (Reuters): Peruvians protesting the abrupt ouster of president Martin Vizcarra clashed on the streets of Lima on Thursday night with riot police, who fired tear gas to disperse the c
LONDON, November 13 (Reuters): Britain and the European Union will resume trade talks in Brussels on Monday after so far failing to close gaps between their positions on two of the thorniest issues that ha
RIO DE JANEIRO, November 13 (Reuters): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's support has fallen in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on the eve of municipal elections, according to a Datafolha survey
ADDIS ABABA/GENEVA, November 13 (Reuters): Fighting between Ethiopian government forces and rebellious northern leaders could spiral out of control and war crimes may have been committed, the United Nation
RABAT/ALGIERS, November 13 (Reuters): The Polisario group seeking independence for Western Sahara on Friday accused Morocco of breaking their nearly three-decade ceasefire and igniting a new war after Moro
LONDON/GENEVA, November 13 (Reuters): A facility set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the GAVI vaccine group has exceeded an interim target of raising more than $2 billion to buy and distribut
SEOUL, November 13 (Reuters): More than 300 drones lit up the sky over Seoul on Friday in a show the government said was meant to give "comfort and hope" to residents enduring the coronavirus pan
New Jersey, November 13 (Reuters): President-elect Joe Biden cemented his U.S. electoral victory by capturing the battleground state of Arizona late on Thursday, but the official transition to his adminis
YANGON, November 13 (Reuters): Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party said on Friday it would seek to form a government of national unity after official election results showed it had comfortab
BEIJING/TAIPEI, November 13 (Reuters): China will strike back against any moves that undermine its core interests, its foreign ministry said on Friday, after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that T
WASHINGTON, November 13 (Reuters): Election security officials have no evidence that ballots were deleted or lost by voting systems in this month's U.S. election, two security groups said in a statemen
BRUSSELS, November 13 (Reuters): Antiviral remdesivir should not be used as a routine treatment for COVID-19 patients in critical care wards, the head of one of the world's top bodies representing inte
MANILA, November 13 (Reuters): Philippine police and soldiers joined a search on Friday for missing people after Typhoon Vamco killed at least 42 people, as residents returned to devastated homes following
JOHANNESBURG, November 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Long queues in the rain, daily four-hour trips in a public taxi, the constant threat of road accidents, and nearly having to use a pen as a knife to
Washington, November 13 (IANS): the overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 52.6 million, while the deaths have surged to 1,291,920, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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ADDIS ABABA, November 12 (Reuters): Scores and probably hundreds of people were stabbed or hacked to death in an area of Ethiopia's Tigray region two days ago, rights group Amnesty International said o