LONDON, September 21 (Reuters): Climate change poses such a severe threat that the world's only option is to adopt a military-style response reminiscent of the U.S. Marshall Plan to rebuild post-war Eu
GENEVA/LONDON, September 21 (Reuters): A total of 156 countries have joined the global COVAX scheme intended to ensure fair distribution of supplies of future vaccines against COVID-19, an alliance led by
WILMINGTON, Del., September 21 (Reuters): Donald Trump and his rival for the U.S. presidency, Joe Biden, will campaign in two election battlegrounds on Monday as they spar over the president's plan to
RIO DE JANEIRO, September 21 (Reuters): A new study that analyzed the coronavirus outbreak in Brazil has found a link between the spread of the virus and past outbreaks of dengue fever that suggests exposu
BEIRUT, September 21 (Reuters): President Michel Aoun warned on Monday Lebanon was going "to hell" if a new government could not be formed but agreeing one might take a miracle after positions ha
LONDON, September 21 (Reuters): Britain will face an exponentially growing death rate from COVID-19 within weeks unless urgent action is taken to halt a rapidly spreading second wave of the outbreak, the c
WASHINGTON, September 21 (Reuters): President Donald Trump said on Monday he is looking at four or five jurists to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court and he will announce his no
MADRID, September 21 (Reuters): The regional chief of Madrid requested on Monday help from the army to fight the coronavirus surge in and around the Spanish capital where local authorities have ordered a p
ISLAMABAD, September 21 (Reuters): Pakistan's opposition parties have launched a new platform to begin protests against Prime Minister Imran Khan's government and make a rare denunciation of the mi
YANGON, September 21 (Reuters): Myanmar plans to push ahead with a November general election despite calls from opposition parties to postpone it because of a surge in novel coronavirus cases, officials sa
MOSCOW, September 21 (Reuters): Russia sees "minimal" chances of extending the New START treaty with the United States - the last major nuclear arms pact between the two countries - because
KATHMANDU, September 21 (Reuters): Ang Rita Sherpa, the first man to climb Mount Everest 10 times, died of a lengthy illness on Monday, his family said, an event that fellow sherpas called a major loss to
GABORONE, September 21 (Reuters): The deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana this year which had baffled and alarmed conservationists were caused by toxins produced by cyanobacteria in water, official
SEOUL, September 21 (Reuters): Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has expressed hopes for improved relations in a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Moon's office said on Mon
SYDNEY, September 21 (Reuters): Marine biologists were planning the rescue of around 270 whales stranded on a sandbar off the remote west coast of the Australian island of Tasmania on Monday.
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, September 21 (Reuters): Anthony and Rosemary Terio, married for 65 years, died five days apart in separate New York hospitals last spring, two lives among the nearly 200,000 that the
Washington, September 21 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases was nearing the 31 million mark, while the deaths have increased to almost 960,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
Tokyo, September 21 (IANS): Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga held his first phone talks with US President Donald Trump since he took office last week, during which the two leaders agreed to further
MADRID, September 20 (Reuters): Protesters in some poorer areas of Madrid that are facing lockdown to stem a soaring COVID-19 infection rate took to the streets on Sunday to call for better health pro
UNITED NATIONS, SEPTEMBER 20 (IANS): Ahead of the high-level meetings of the UN scheduled for Monday, the international community expects world leaders to make collective efforts to address global challenges.