YANGON, November 10 (Reuters): Myanmar's military-backed opposition said on Tuesday there had been "many contentious events" during a parliamentary election two days ago which the ruling part
LONDON, November 10 (Reuters): Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20% of those infected with the
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When U.S. law student Areeb Khan tried to sign into the online portal to take his practice bar exam, he was met with a strange message: "Due to poor lighting we are unable to
LONDON, NOVEMBER 10 (Reuters): A trove of 240 rare books worth over $3.3 million have been returned to their owners after they were stolen in London by a gang of Romanian men who abseiled down from a warehouse
MOSCOW/YEREVAN/BAKU, November 10 (Reuters): Russian peacekeeping troops deployed to the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as part of a ceasefire deal to end six weeks of heavy fighting betwee
JOHANNESBURG, November 10 (Reuters): South African police have issued a warrant for the arrest on corruption charges of Ace Magashule, a top official of the governing African National Congress party, a spo
TOKYO/SEOUL/MANILA, November 10 (Reuters): With tropical heat, remote island communities and a dearth of ultra-cold freezers, many Asian countries aren't betting on Pfizer's experimental vaccine so
UNITED NATIONS, NOVEMBER 10 (IANS): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed for global action against hatred and underscored the need for the world to return to reason.
"We must stand togethe
London, November 10 (Reuters): The COVID-19 death toll in Europe is set to pass 300,000, according to a Reuters tally on Tuesday, and authorities fear that despite hopes for a new vaccine, fatalities and infect
WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON, Del., November 10 (Reuters): President Donald Trump will push ahead on Tuesday with legal challenges to the results of last week's election after U.S. Attorney General William Ba
NAIROBI, November 10 (Reuters): Ethiopian troops took an airport in the Tigray region during an offensive against local leaders defying Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's authority, state media said on T
LAKE NAIVASHA, Kenya, November 10 (Reuters): Months of sustained torrential rains have caused a lake in Kenya's Rift Valley to flood its banks, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes and farms,
JERUSALEM, November 10 (Reuters): Saeb Erekat, 65, one of the most experienced and high-profile spokesmen for the Palestinian cause over decades of dispute with Israel, died on Tuesday after contracting CO
TOKYO, November 10 (Reuters): The number of suicides in Japan rose in October for the fourth month in a row to the highest level in more than five years, data showed on Tuesday, a trend activists have blam
Washington, November 10 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 50.8 million, while the deaths have surged to 1,262,370, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of Tuesday mor
KABUL, November 10 (Reuters):- The last thing 33-year-old Khatera saw were the three men on a motorcycle who attacked her just after she left her job at a police station in Afghanistan's central Ghazni prov
WASHINGTON, November 10 (Reuters): US President Donald Trump said on Monday he had "terminated" Defense Secretary Mark Esper, signaling he may use his final months in office after defeat at
GENEVA, November 9 (Reuters): A COVID-19 vaccine may be rolled out by March 2021 to the most vulnerable, which along with other advances could fundamentally change the course of the pandemic, a senior Worl
THE HAGUE, November 9 (Reuters): Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci on Monday pleaded not guilty to all war crimes charges brought against him in his first appearance before a judge after being taken int
LA PAZ, November 9 (Reuters): Bolivia's former longtime leader Evo Morales was preparing a return to his country on Monday after a close ally and member of his MAS socialist party was sworn in as