LONDON, September 9 (Reuters): Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere hit a record high this year, a United Nations report showed on Wednesday, as an economic slowdown amid t
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BANGKOK, September 9 (Reuters): Thai anti-government activists on Wednesday announced plans to hold an overnight protest and to rally up to 100,000 people to march on Government House next week, piling mor
WASHINGTON, September 9 (Reuters): The United States military on Wednesday announced that it would be reducing its presence in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 troops this month, formalizing a move that had been l
CAIRO, September 9 (Reuters): Saudi Arabia told an Arab League meeting on Wednesday it supports all efforts to reach a comprehensive solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. But a statement release
PHNOM PENH, September 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): A high-ranking Cambodian police official has been sacked over sexual misconduct at work in a landmark case in the Southeast Asian nation but will not b
OSLO, September 9 (Reuters): A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 for helping broker a deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, the second time he has
GENEVA, September 9 (Reuters): Weapons provided by Western powers and Iran to the warring sides in Yemen are fuelling the six-year-old conflict, marked by deadly Saudi-led coalition air strikes and Ho
KABUL, September 9 (Reuters): A roadside bomb in Kabul targeted first Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Wednesday morning but he escaped unharmed, his spokesman said. The attack killed at least
VATICAN CITY, September 9 (Reuters): Pope Francis said on Wednesday no one should seek economic or political gain from the coronavirus pandemic and vaccine developers should not see it merely as a profit-m
TOKYO September 9 (Reuters): Eight years after Japan's Democratic Party was ousted and began unravelling, opposition groups are once again unifying for a general election that could come soon, but
BOGOTA, September 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Colombian police broke up an accused sex trafficking ring that recruited women in Colombia and forced them into prostitution in China, authorities sai
BEIJING/SYDNEY, September 9 (Reuters): The Chinese government on Wednesday accused Australia of "blatant irrational behaviour", harassment and violation of the rights of its journalists by search
HAKA/AMMAN, September 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Nizar Kochery has been fighting for migrant workers' rights in the courts for decades, but he has never felt so overwhelmed. As the coronav
LESBOS, Greece, September 9 (Reuters): Thousands of migrants fled fires early on Wednesday that tore through an overcrowded camp under coronavirus lockdown on the Greek island of Lesbos, but there were no
BEIRUT, September 8 (Reuters): Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim religious leader warned against a slide towards violence on Tuesday after a deadly Beirut shootout added to concerns about deteriorating law an
TOKYO, September 8 (Reuters): As Japan's ruling party formally kicked off its leadership race on Tuesday, frontrunner and chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said that preventing the spread of the c
KABUL/PESHAWAR, September 8 (Reuters): U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has held a meeting in Doha with the head of the new Taliban team due to open peace talks with a team representing the Afghan
GENEVA, September 8 (Reuters): The top United Nations human rights official called on Russia on Tuesday to conduct, or cooperate with, a full independent investigation into Germany's findings that oppo
LONDON, September 8 (Reuters): Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who is fighting to avoid extradition to the United States from Britain, was warned by a judge on Tuesday he will be removed from the cou
LAHORE, Pakistan, SEpember 8 (Reuters): A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced a Christian man to death on blasphemy charges. Asif Pervaiz, a garment factory worker, had been accused by his supervisor o
