BEIRUT, August 30 (Reuters): Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday it was only a matter of time before the group killed an Israeli soldier to avenge the death of one its fighters in Syria
BANGKOK, August 30 (Reuters): About 1,200 Thai royalists gathered on Sunday to support the monarchy after almost daily student-led, anti-government protests calling for change, with some seeking reforms of
BEIJING, August 30 (Reuters) - Twenty-nine people were killed and seven seriously injured when a restaurant collapsed in northern China's Shanxi province, the country's emergencies ministry media said o
RIO DE JANEIRO, August 30 (Reuters) - For Ricardo Moraes, a veteran photographer who for 11 years has documented for Reuters life in Rio de Janeiro's often dangerous cinderblock slums known as "favelas
Washington, August 30 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 24.9 million, while the deaths have increased to over 840,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of Sunday
ROME, August 29 (Reuters): A rescue boat funded by British street artist Banksy has issued urgent calls for help, saying it is stranded in the Mediterranean and overloaded with migrants who it has been unable t
SHANGHAI, August 29 (Reuters): China must build an "impregnable fortress" to maintain stability in Tibet, protect national unity and educate the masses in the struggle against "splittism&quo
Kabul, August 29 (IANS): At least 44 Taliban militants have been killed in Afghanistan's Kunduz province as security forces stepped up operations in the area, an army statement said on Saturday.
Accordin
SHANGHAI, August 29 (Reuters) - Wuhan, Ground Zero for the COVID-19 pandemic and the Chinese city hardest hit by the coronavirus, will reopen all its schools and kindergartens on Tuesday, local authorities said
Washington, August 29 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 24.6 million, while the deaths have increased to over 835,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of Saturda
WASHINGTON, August 28 (Reuters): Thousands of people gathered to march in Washington on Friday to denounce racism and protest police brutality on the anniversary of the march in 1963 where civil rights lea
WARSAW, August 28 (Reuters): It started five years ago with a music video uploaded by a teenage blogger on YouTube.
Now, the Nexta Live channel, with more than 2 million subscribers on the messaging app
LIMA, August 28 (Reuters): Peru will start testing coronavirus vaccines from China's Sinopharm and U.S. drugmaker Johnson & Johnson in September, researchers said, which should help the country gai
GENEVA, August 28 (Reuters): The life of a top Congolese doctor who won the Nobel Peace prize for his work treating war rape victims is in danger after a series of death threats, the U.N. High Commissioner
BAMAKO, August 28 (Reuters): Mali's West African neighbours said on Friday that sanctions they imposed over a coup there were needed to stamp out the "disease" of military takeovers, and that
OSLO, August 28 (Reuters): A 38-year-old Dutch man was killed by a polar bear in the Norwegian Arctic Svalbard islands early on Friday, local authorities said, the first such deadly incident in nine years.
MOSCOW, August 29 (Reuters): Russia has released previously classified footage of the world's largest nuclear explosion, caused when the Soviet Union detonated the so-called Tsar Bomba almost 60 years
KARACHI, Pakistan, Augut 28 (Reuters): Pakistan's flooded financial capital of Karachi was plunged into chaos on Friday with power cuts, streets under water and cellphone outages caused by heavy rain a
BERLIN, August 28 (Reuters): German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that global efforts to combat climate change were insufficient, and that she would accelerate the fight to combat it in coming ye
ADDIS ABABA, August 28 (Reuters): The number of dolphins washed up dead near a Mauritius oil spill site increased to 38 on Friday, a government official told Reuters.
"I can confirm we have so far