WARSAW, October 17 (Reuters): Polish prosecutors said on Saturday they had brought fraud charges against a prominent lawyer and former deputy prime minister who is a vocal critic of the government, an
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump takes his re-election push to Michigan and Wisconsin on Saturday before launching a tour of western states to shore up support as national polls show him trailing h
CONFLANS-SAINTE-HONORINE, France, October 17 (Reuters): The 18-year-old who beheaded a teacher outside the school in a Paris suburb where he taught had approached pupils in the street and asked them to poi
VATICAN CITY, October 17 (Reuters): A man living in the same Vatican residence as Pope Francis has tested positive for COVID-19 and gone into isolation, the Vatican said on Saturday.
The man, who was no
WELLINGTON, October 17 (Reuters): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivered the biggest election victory for her centre-left Labour Party in half a century on Saturday as voters rewarded her for a decisive r
WARSAW, October 17 (Reuters): Poland reported a record 9,622 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, according to health ministry data published on Twitter, as fitness workers gathered in the capital to pr
MOSCOW, October 17 (Reuters): The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd have received renewed approval to conduct late-stage clinical trials in India of the Russian COVI
BEIJING, October 17 (Reuters): A Chinese city is offering Sinovac Biotech's <SVA.O> experimental COVID-19 vaccine to essential workers and other high-risk groups as part of a national programme f
PARIS, October 17 (Reuters): A middle school history teacher in France was knifed to death near the school where earlier this month he had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, considered blas
MEXICO CITY, October 17 (Reuters): Mexico's former defense minister Salvador Cienfuegos used his power in office to protect the Beltran-Leyva cartel, directing military operations against rival gangs a
Washington, October 17 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 39 million mark, while the deaths have soared to more than 1,103,350, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
New Delhi, October 17 (IANS): Rattled by the strengthened US naval presence in the region, China has gone in for a fresh round of gunboat diplomacy with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) count
Islamabad, October 17 (IANS): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is facing a serious outburst from the opposition parties, who have now joined together and launched an anti-government campaign, aimed at topplin
Washington, October 17 (IANS): A Republican Senator from the state of Georgia mispronounced Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris' name, leading to racism accusations.
While speaking against
Washington, October 17 (IANS): Former US President Barack Obama is set to campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Philadelphia on October 21, according to Democratic Party sources.
The sour
YEREVAN/BAKU, October 16 (Reuters) - Armenian and Azeri forces fought new clashes on Friday, defying hopes of ending nearly three weeks of fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, and U.S. Secretary of
October 16 (Reuters) - U.S. cases of the novel coronavirus crossed 8 million on Thursday, rising by 1 million in less than a month, as another surge in cases hits the nation at the onset of cooler weather.
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BANGKOK, October 16 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Thai anti-government protesters chanted "Down with Dictatorship" under pouring rain in Bangkok on Friday, defying a government ban on demonstrations fo
ZURICH/GENEVA, October 16 (Reuters): A World Health Organization (WHO) trial that concluded Gilead Sciences Inc. remdesivir did not significantly help COVID-19 patients is reliable, a scientist who evaluated it
ROVANIEMI, October 16 (Reuters): Christmas is coming, but in Santa's home village in northern Finland, the COVID pandemic means that the flocks of tourists who usually start to make merry in Rovaniemi at th