WASHINGTON, November 6 (Reuters): The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil, the son-in-law of President Michel Aoun, accusing him of corruption, the Trea
MADRID, November 6 (Reuters): Prosecutors at Spain's Supreme Court said on Friday they had opened a new preliminary investigation into former king Juan Carlos' business dealings following a re
MOSCOW, November 6 (Reuters): President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ordering the Russian government to work towards meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement to fight climate change, but disappointed activis
TEGUCIGALPA/GUATEMALA CITY, November 6 (Reuters): The remains of Hurricane Eta dumped more torrential rain across large parts of Central America early on Friday after days of devastating floods and landsli
THE HAGUE, November 6 (Reuters): Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, who suddenly resigned and was taken into the custody of a war crimes tribunal on Thursday, will face a judge for the first time on Mon
WASHINGTON, November 6 (Reuters): Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took the lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia for the first time on Friday,
BOGOTA, November 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Armed with tablets, dozens of indigenous and Venezuelan migrant children in Colombia's northern desert region are learning at home while the coronavirus
LONDON, November 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): England's month-long coronavirus lockdown will hinder efforts to spot and support children trafficked by drug gangs, researchers said on Friday, warning
DHAKA, November 6 (Reuters): A religious charity has opened the first school in Bangladesh for hijras, a transgender community whose members face widespread discrimination in the mostly conservative Muslim
GENEVA, November 6 (Reuters): The World Health Organization is looking at biosecurity around mink farms in countries across the world to prevent further "spillover events" after Denmark ordered a
BEIJING, November 6 (Reuters): China has never interfered in other countries' affairs nor does it have any interest in doing so, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday, in response to Australia ch
HANOI, November 6 (Reuters): Vietnam will stick to its strategy of containing COVID-19 rather than rush to secure a supply of a vaccine that could be financially risky, the head of the country's corona
LONDON, November 6 (Reuters): Severe disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to immunisation campaigns against measles and polio are putting millions of vulnerable children at risk from deadly and debi
SINGAPORE/LONDON, November 6 (Reuters): One of two Muslims allowed to run for the ruling party in Buddhist-majority Myanmar's general election on Sunday, Sithu Maung, worries fake news on Facebook coul
Kabul, November 6 (IANS): The Afghan National Army has received 429 military vehicles from the US as part of Washingon and the NATOs continued support to the war-torn country's forces, the Defence Ministry
STOCKHOLM, November 6 (Reuters): Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg hit back at Donald Trump on Twitter late on Thursday saying the U.S. president should "chill" about the election, a ripost
WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON, Del., November 6 (Reuters): With his re-election chances fading as more votes are counted in a handful of battleground states, U.S. President Donald Trump launched an extraordinary a
PHOENIX, November 6 (Reuters): Backers of President Donald Trump ramped up demonstrations on Thursday night against an election they believe was rigged or being stolen, in some cases bringing guns or clash
(Reuters): Former Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos pleaded not guilty to drug charges on Thursday in a case that has put U.S.-Mexican cooperation in the fight against powerful cartels to the te
ABIDJAN/CONAKRY, November 5 (Reuters): For some Africans, President Donald Trump's actions in the aftermath of the U.S. election have been a cause for dark humour, while others reacted with dismay or d