VATICAN CITY, November 2 (Reuters): The Vatican says comments by Pope Francis on civil union laws in a documentary last month were taken out of context and did not signal a change in Church doctrine o
LONDON, November 2 (Reuters): A wave of COVID curbs has stirred resistance across Europe, with the right-wing British politician who helped force a referendum on Brexit harnessing popular anger at a n
SEOUL, NOVEMBER 2 (IANS): Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was jailed again on Monday on corruption charges, following the Supreme Court's order last week to confirm an earlier 17-year prison ter
YANGON, November 2 (Reuters): Hardline Buddhist nationalist monk Ashin Wirathu handed himself over to police in Myanmar's commercial capital of Yangon on Monday after more than a year on the run f
KABUL, November 2 (Reuters): Gunmen attacked Kabul University's campus on Monday, killing at least 10 students and trading fire with security forces, a senior Afghan government source and witnesse
MARIB, November 2 (Reuters): When Um Feras realised there were no leisure spaces for women in her city in Yemen, she founded her own cafe and hopes to change attitudes about women-led businesses.
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YANGON, November 2 (Reuters): As Myanmar prepares for a general election next week, an opposition politician has found a new way of connecting with voters facing novel coronavirus restrictions and get
MOSCOW, November 2 (Reuters): U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and his wife are applying for Russian citizenship in order not to be separated from their future son in an era of pandemics and closed b
LHASA, China, November 2 (Reuters): Dzekyid, a 54-year-old barley farmer, presents himself as a role model for his neighbours and for the success of China's efforts to tie economic development to socia
BEIJING, November 2 (Reuters): China's foreign ministry said on Monday it will take all necessary measures to protect Chinese journalists in response to the United States delaying visa renewals for Chi
LOS ANGELES, November 2 (Reuters): When lifelong Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son five months ago that she was voting for Donald Trump in Tuesday's presidential election, he cut her o
DHAKA, November 2 (Reuters): Bangladesh's biggest Islamist group on Monday told the government to cut diplomatic ties with France within 24 hours, as police stopped thousands of its supporters fro
IZMIR, November 2 (Reuters): A three-year-old girl was rescued from a collapsed building in the western Turkish city of Izmir on Monday, nearly three days after a powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea
KIEW SA-TAI, Thailand, November 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): At 93 years, Chungyung Bekaku did not think she would get her Thai citizenship after having lived all her life in the hills of northern Thail
LONDON, November 2 (Reuters): In a corner of north London, a new gleaming butchers is preparing to open.
The only thing it lacks is meat.
To coincide with Sunday's World Vegan Day, Britain's
OPA-LOCKA, Fla./WILMINGTON, Del., November 2 (Reuters): U.S. President Donald Trump will hunt for support in four battleground states on Monday while Democratic rival Joe Biden focuses on Pennsylvania and
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 1 (Reuters): Two days before Election Day, President Donald Trump on Sunday launches a sprint of campaigning across battleground states crucial to the outcome of the U.S. election
QUEBEC CITY, NOVEMBER 1 (Reuters): Two people were killed and five wounded after being stabbed by a man dressed in medieval clothes and wielding a sword, Quebec police said on Sunday, noting the attac
MANILA, NOVEMBER 1 (Reuters): At least 10 people died and three others were missing after Typhoon Goni, the world's strongest typhoon this year, barrelled through the south of the Philippines' main
ISLAMABAD, November 1 (Reuters): Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday his government will give provisional provincial status to part of Kashmir, drawing condemnation from India, which has lon