RABAT/ALGIERS, November 13 (Reuters): The Polisario group seeking independence for Western Sahara on Friday accused Morocco of breaking their nearly three-decade ceasefire and igniting a new war after Moro
LONDON/GENEVA, November 13 (Reuters): A facility set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the GAVI vaccine group has exceeded an interim target of raising more than $2 billion to buy and distribut
SEOUL, November 13 (Reuters): More than 300 drones lit up the sky over Seoul on Friday in a show the government said was meant to give "comfort and hope" to residents enduring the coronavirus pan
New Jersey, November 13 (Reuters): President-elect Joe Biden cemented his U.S. electoral victory by capturing the battleground state of Arizona late on Thursday, but the official transition to his adminis
YANGON, November 13 (Reuters): Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party said on Friday it would seek to form a government of national unity after official election results showed it had comfortab
BEIJING/TAIPEI, November 13 (Reuters): China will strike back against any moves that undermine its core interests, its foreign ministry said on Friday, after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that T
WASHINGTON, November 13 (Reuters): Election security officials have no evidence that ballots were deleted or lost by voting systems in this month's U.S. election, two security groups said in a statemen
BRUSSELS, November 13 (Reuters): Antiviral remdesivir should not be used as a routine treatment for COVID-19 patients in critical care wards, the head of one of the world's top bodies representing inte
MANILA, November 13 (Reuters): Philippine police and soldiers joined a search on Friday for missing people after Typhoon Vamco killed at least 42 people, as residents returned to devastated homes following
JOHANNESBURG, November 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Long queues in the rain, daily four-hour trips in a public taxi, the constant threat of road accidents, and nearly having to use a pen as a knife to
Washington, November 13 (IANS): the overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 52.6 million, while the deaths have surged to 1,291,920, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden should move fast to protect digital rights by curbing the use of facial recognition and surveillance, regulating big tech and tackling discrimination
ADDIS ABABA, November 12 (Reuters): Scores and probably hundreds of people were stabbed or hacked to death in an area of Ethiopia's Tigray region two days ago, rights group Amnesty International said o
ZURICH, November 12 (Reuters): This week has seen a flurry of good news from COVID-19 vaccine developers, with Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE trumpeting early data indicating their mRNA candidate is more than
THESSALONIKI, November 12 (Reuters): A surge in coronavirus infections in Greece's northern city of Thessaloniki is pushing the hospital system to its limits, doctors at a medical facility say, as the
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U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Thursday vaccine developers should push to make billions of their COVID-19 vaccines to ensure access to all parts of the world, instead of focusin
PARIS/BERLIN, November 12 (Reuters): European officials warned against COVID-19 complacency on Thursday and said measures to control a surge in infections as winter approaches must remain in force despite
YANGON, November 12 (Reuters): Yarzar Tun's whole family backed Myanmar's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in the landslide 2015 election that swept her to power. As fighting this year in western Ra
LONDON, November 12 (Reuters): Britain has given the green light to a $2.2 billion tunnel under Stonehenge aimed at hiding a nearby main road that has long blighted the mysterious prehistoric circle of sto
LONDON, November 12 (Reuters): Conspiracy theories and misinformation fuel mistrust in vaccines and could push levels that potential COVID-19 vaccines are taken in the United States and Britain below the r