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
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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
MOSUL, Iraq, September 8 (Reuters): When the Iraqi city of Mosul went into lockdown in March, Mohammed Sattar, who lost both his legs when his house was shelled in 2017, found himself unable to see the old
KHARTOUM, September 8 (Reuters): Record floods in Sudan have threatened sites housing the royal pyramids of Meroe and Nuri, two of the country's most important archaeological areas, an official said on
DUBAI, September 8 (Reuters): British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was summoned by an Iranian Revolutionary Court on Tuesday and informed about a new charge, state television reported. &
Reuters Two Myanmar soldiers have been taken to The Hague after confessing to murdering minority Rohingya Muslims during a 2017 crackdown, two news organisations and a rights group reported on Tuesday. Th
SEOUL, September 8 (Reuters): South Korea's latest COVID-19 outbreak has triggered a public backlash against conservative Christian churches for defying government orders aimed at preventing the diseas
LONDON, September 8 (Reuters): Britain headed into Tuesday's fresh round of Brexit trade talks with a warning to the European Union that it was ramping up preparations to leave without agreement as bot
NEW YORK, September 8 (Reuters): With less than two months to go until the U.S. election, President Donald Trump is having trouble energizing his core supporters, especially white voters without college de
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, September 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): In a small village in northern Afghanistan, nestled in barren mountains and cut off from main roads, Arsam points to what is left of his hou
NEW YORK, September 8 (Reuters): As the ruins of New York's World Trade Center smoldered following the September 11 attacks of 2001, skeptics doubted it could ever rise again. Now, as the 19th anniv
