YANGON, October 28 (Reuters): The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday a boat carrying its aid in Myanmar's restive Rakhine State had come under attack, in an incident in which th
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NEW YORK, OCTOBER 28 (IANS): 'What-if' scenarios, polling errors, nightmare scenarios from statistical flubs in 2016 and non toss-up maps are the toast of frenzied US media coverage in the final week be
BEIRUT, October 28 (Reuters): Lebanon's influential Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said on Wednesday that a new government could be formed within a few days if talks keep going positively. Weeks of
ABUJA, October 28 (Reuters): Nigeria's Lagos state government asked the army to intervene to restore order amid anti-police brutality protests, but soldiers did not shoot civilians, the military said,
NAIROBI/GAROWE, October 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Women's rights groups, prominent businesswomen and female politicians in Somalia are urging the country's male-dominated parliament to pass
BERLIN/PARIS, October 28 (Reuters): Germany and France were preparing to announce restrictions approaching the level of last spring's blanket lockdowns on Wednesday as COVID deaths across Europe rose a
KUALA LUMPUR, October 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): A Singapore-based website tapping into the growing demand for environmentally careers in Asia is hoping it would be the link to "meaningful"
MARIETTA, Georgia, October 28 (Reuters): From his jail cell, Chinedu Efoagui sent a plea. “I’m innocent,” he wrote his lawyer. “Have all the charges dropped.” Born in Niger
SEOUL, October 28 (Reuters): President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, one of the world's most fossil-fuel reliant economies, said on Wednesday the country will go carbon neutral by 2050. The announceme
ISTANBUL, October 28 (Reuters): Turkey said on Wednesday it will take legal and diplomatic steps in response to a caricature of President Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which
CAIRO, October 28 (Reuters): Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday freedom of expression should stop if it offends more than 1.5 billion people, following the display of images in Fr
LAS VEGAS/WILMINGTON, Del., October 28 (Reuters): President Donald Trump will hold two campaign rallies on Wednesday in the battleground state of Arizona, where polls show him narrowly trailing Democratic
NEW YORK, October 28 (Reuters): Keith Raniere, the founder of the cult-like group NXIVM where women were kept on starvation diets, branded with his initials, and ordered to have sex with him, was sentenced
PHILADELPHIA, October 28 (Reuters): The family of a Philadelphia Black man shot dead by police appealed on Tuesday for calm as a second night of protests over his death once again turned violent, with clas
PARIS, October 28 (Reuters): French drugmaker Sanofi and Britain's GlaxoSmithKline will supply 200 million doses of their COVID-19 candidate vaccine to a global inoculation scheme backed by the Wo
CHICAGO, October 28 (Reuters): Nearly half a million people in the United States have contracted the novel coronavirus in the last seven days, according to a Reuters tally, as cases and hospitalizations se
Reuters The U.S. envoy for Afghanistan said on Tuesday that the level of violence there was still too high and the Kabul government and Taliban insurgents must work harder towards forging a ceasefire at thei
MOSCOW, October 27 (Reuters): The leader of Russia's Muslim-majority Chechnya region said on Tuesday that French President Emmanuel Macron was inspiring terrorists by justifying cartoons of the Prophet
HONG KONG, October 27 (Reuters): Hong Kong police on Tuesday detained three people under the city's contentious national security law on suspicion of publishing content to incite others to secede from
BANGKOK, October 27 (Reuters): Head down, arms spread, one man pushes with all his strength against rows of Thai riot police behind their shields. The Reuters image of the night of Oct. 16, when police
