ABIDJAN, November 7 (Reuters): Ivory Coast opposition leader and former prime minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan was under arrest on Saturday for creating a rival government after President Alassane Ouatta
London, November 7 (IANS): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he believed that there was "a deal to be done" on the post-Brexit trade with the European Union (EU), adding he "very much hopes&qu
London, November 7 (IANS): The UK has imposed an immediate for all travellers from Denmark amid concerns of a mutated Covid-19 strain found in minks that has been transmitted to over 210 people in the Scandinav
MOSCOW, November 7 (Reuters): Scientists in northern Russia have discovered a huge walrus haulout on the shores of the Kara Sea where their habitat is under threat from shrinking ice and human activity.
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Washington, November 7 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped the 49 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 1,241,360, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Washington, November 7 (IANS): White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, an official has confirmed.
Meadows is the latest high-ranking White official to be infect
WILMINGTON, Delaware, November 7 (Reuters): Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden vowed on Friday the vote count would continue as he took the lead in several battleground states and appeared poised
VIENNA, November 6 (Reuters): Austria on Friday admitted "intolerable mistakes" in the handling of intelligence on the jihadist who killed four people in Vienna on Monday, saying it could have co
ADDIS ABABA, November 6 (Reuters): Ethiopia's leader justified his decision to launch a war in the north of the country, saying on Friday it was necessary to disarm a powerful ethnic faction that had o
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