PHILADELPHIA, September 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said a vaccine against the deadly coronavirus could be three or four weeks away, despite cautionary notes sounded by some U.S. publi
TOKYO, September 16 (Reuters) - Japan's Yoshihide Suga was voted prime minister by parliament's lower house on Wednesday, becoming the country's first new leader in nearly eight years, as he readied
Washington, September 16 (IANS): Nearly 550,000 children in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to a new report of the American Academy of Pediatrics a
NAJAF, Iraq, September 15 (Reuters): It took Abu Haider and his relatives several hours to dig up his nephew's grave and exhume the body at a cemetery in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf built especially fo
GENEVA, September 15 (Reuters): Nearly two dozen activist groups said on Tuesday that crimes against humanity and genocide are taking place against Uighurs in China's remote Xinjiang region, where more
PARIS, September 15 (Reuters): U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday warned France that its efforts to resolve the crisis in Lebanon would be in vain without immediately tackling the issue of Iran
GENEVA, September 15 (Reuters): Dozens of Western countries called on Tuesday for the release of women activists detained in Saudi Arabia and for those behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to b
LONDON, September 15 (Reuters): All the world's governments have fallen short on pledges made a decade ago to protect wildlife, though cases of conservation show that the destruction of nature can be s
BRUSSELS, September 15 (Reuters): The European Parliament on Tuesday voted in favour of including greenhouse gas emissions from the maritime sector in the European Union's carbon market from 2022, thro
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo, September 15 (Reuters): Fifty-two inmates at a prison in the northeastern Congo city of Bunia have starved to death this year because of insufficient government funding,
EL ESPINAR, Spain, September 15 (Reuters): A wedding ring worn by her father 84 years ago when he was shot dead by General Francisco Franco's fascist forces finally gave certainty to Rosa Maria Insua,
MEXICO CITY, September 15 (Reuters): Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday moved closer to an unprecedented national vote on what he describes as the corrupt rule of his predecessor
WASHINGTON, September 15 (Reuters): The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Tuesday will become the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo when they sign agreements toward normalizing relations w
WASHINGTON, September 15 (Reuters): President Donald Trump on Tuesday told Fox News he is not pressuring the U.S. government for a vaccine against the deadly coronavirus for political reasons.
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BANGKOK, September 15 (Reuters): Thailand's prime minister pledged on Tuesday to ensure that a major protest this weekend against his government would be peaceful but said he was concerned that outside
JERUSALEM, September 15 (Reuters): Israel's rapprochement with Gulf Arab states has left the Palestinians feeling abandoned by traditional allies and clutching an old playbook in a rapidly changin
KARACHI, September 15 (Reuters): Millions of students in Pakistan returned to classes on Tuesday after a break of six months, as schools and colleges began to reopen for the first time since the outbreak o
TOKYO, September 15 (Reuters): Former Nissan Motor Co Ltd executive Greg Kelly denied charges he helped former boss Carlos Ghosn hide income as the American lawyer's trial opened in Tokyo on Tuesday, a
TAIPEI, September 15 (Reuters): The Vatican has asked Taiwan not to worry about the extension of a deal between the Vatican and China on the appointment of bishops as it was a religious matter and not a di
NEW YORK, September 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage of CO