BANGKOK, October 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): An exodus of workers from big cities and families opting to delay having babies because of the coronavirus may trigger a demographic shift in some countrie
BEIJING, October 30 (Reuters): Days after a 17-year-old girl tested positive for COVID-19 in a remote part of western China last week, health authorities said they had tested over 4.7 million people in the
Paris, October 30 (IANS): Twitter has removed former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's controversial tweet glorifying violence even though France is demanding suspension of his account on the soci
Miami, October 30 (IANS): US First Lady Melania Trump made a rare joint appearance alongside her husband, President Donald Trump at a re-election campaign rally in Florida.
At the rally held in Tampa on Thur
Paris, October 30 (IANS): A Tunisian man who stabbed three people to death inside a church in the French city of Nice, had arrived in Europe on board a migrant boat last month, officials said on Friday.
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CHICAGO, October 30 (Reuters): If all goes well, the first doses of a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine will likely become available to some high-risk Americans in late December or early January, Dr.
YANGON, October 30 (Reuters) - Myanmar goes to the polls on November 8 in its second general election since the end of full military rule in 2011.
Here is a timeline of some key events in the nation's re
October 30 (Reuters) - The United States broke its single-day record for new coronavirus infections on Thursday, reporting over 91,000 new cases, as hospitalizations also hit new highs in many states, according
Washington, October 30 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases was nearing the 45 million mark, while the deaths have surged to 1,179,270, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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WASHINGTON, October 29 (Reuters): The White House coronavirus task force is warning of a persistent and broad spread of COVID-19 in the western half of the United States and its members urged aggressive mi
FRANKFURT, October 29 (Reuters): A coronavirus strain that emerged in Spain in June has spread across Europe and now makes up a large proportion of infections in several countries, researchers said, highli
MOSCOW, October 29 (Reuters): Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a staunch ally of President Vladimir Putin, threw a champagne party in Russia's parliament in 2016 to toast Donald Trump's presidential election
MADRID, October 29 (Reuters): Spain will be under a state of emergency until early May, giving regions legal backing to decide curfews and restrict travel to try and contain rampant COVID-19 contagion.
AMSTERDAM, October 29 (Reuters): A U.N. judge on Thursday ordered Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga to undergo a medical examination to see whether he is fit to be sent to Arusha, Tanzania for trial
LONDON, October 29 (Reuters): Growing evidence that COVID-19 antibody levels can wane swiftly after someone is infected is not necessarily bad news for immunity, experts said on Thursday, and does not
KUALA LUMPUR, October 29 (Reuters): Malaysia's former premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday Muslims have a right to "kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past" but he d
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 29 (IANS): With five days to go for the US election and a week out from the final presidential debate, it's raining polls and the needle isn't moving wildly in national numbers althoug
VATICAN CITY, October 29 (Reuters): Pope Francis condemned as "savage" an attack in which three people were killed at a church in France on Thursday, and the Vatican said terrorism and violence w
MOSCOW, October 29 (Reuters): Russia has temporarily stopped vaccinating new volunteers in its COVID-19 vaccine trial due to high demand and a shortage of doses, a representative at the firm running the study s
BANGKOK, October 29 (Reuters): Thai protesters criticised spending by King Maha Vajiralongkorn's palace and held a "fashion show" that parodied members of the royal family at a rally in Bangk