JORDAN VALLEY, West Bank, November 5 (Reuters): Israel has demolished most of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank, displacing 73 Palestinians - including 41 children - in the largest such demolitio
ATHENS, November 5 (Reuters): Greece ordered a nationwide lockdown on Thursday for three weeks to help contain a resurgence of COVID-19 cases.
"I've chosen to take drastic measures sooner rathe
JAKARTA, NOVEMBER 5 (IANS): For the first time after 22 years, Indonesia has entered recession due to the heavy coronavirus-induced impact on the country's economy, authorities said on Thursday.
Accordin
WASHINGTON, November 5 (Reuters): Democrat Joe Biden moved closer to victory in the U.S. presidential race on Thursday as election officials tallied votes in the handful of states that will determine the o
BEIJING, November 5 (Reuters): Mainland China has barred entry to non-Chinese visitors from Britain, Belgium and the Philippines and demanded travellers from the United States, France and Germany present r
AMMAN, November 5 (Reuters): Syrian President Bashar al Assad said billions of dollars of deposits held by his countrymen in Lebanon's financial sector that were blocked after a major financial crisis
THE HAGUE, November 5 (Reuters): Former Kosovo Liberation Army spokesman and veteran Kosovar politician Jakup Krasniqi was arrested and transferred to The Hague on Wednesday, the Kosovo war crimes tribunal
London, November 5 (IANS): Amid an ongoing second Covid-19 wave, a new four-week lockdown in England came into force on Thursday, under which people will have to stay at home, while non-essential shops, pubs an
(Reuters): The outcome of the U.S. presidential election hung in the balance on Wednesday as nine states continued to count ballots, including some of the most competitive battleground states where the tal
WASHINGTON, November 4 (Reuters): The excruciatingly close U.S. presidential election hung in the balance on Wednesday, with a handful of closely contested states set to decide the outcome in the coming ho
DAKAR, November 4 (Reuters): Ivory Coast opposition leaders refused to disband their breakaway government on Wednesday despite being put under effective house arrest following a disputed presidential elect
COPENHAGEN, November 4 (Reuters): Denmark will cull its entire herd of up to 17 million mink after a mutation of the coronavirus found in the animals spread to humans, posing risk to any possible future va
BRASILIA, November 4 (Reuters): Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday refrained from commenting on the potential winner of the tight U.S. election, but reiterated his support for President Donald Tr
WARSAW, November 4 (Reuters): Poland announced further restrictions on Wednesday to halt the spread of the coronavirus and said it would impose a full national lockdown if COVID-19 cases continue to surge.
TOKYO, November 4 (Reuters): Japanese health officials have found 164 emaciated dogs crammed into a tiny house in one of the country's worst cases of animal hoarding, an animal rights activist said on
WARSAW, November 4 (Reuters): The Vatican has ordered an investigation into the former archbishop of Gdansk on suspicion of negligence over sex abuse allegations, a month after the pope accepted the r
RIYADH, November 4 (Reuters): Saudi Arabia on Wednesday announced new plans to ease foreign workers' contractual restrictions, abolishing a controversial seven-decade-old sponsorship system known as ka
TEL AVIV, November 4 (Reuters): Malawi said on Tuesday it will open a full embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, becoming the first African nation to do so in the contested city.
In a video statement during a
YANGON, November 4 (Reuters): The Myanmar President Office hit back at the army chief on Wednesday for criticising the government's handling of an upcoming general election, warning that his remarks ri
RIO DE JANEIRO, November 4 (Reuters): State prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro said late on Tuesday they have formally pressed charges against Flavio Bolsonaro, President Jair Bolsonaro's eldest son, over h