LONDON, June 30 (Reuters): Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to shake Britain's economy out of its coronavirus-induced crisis on Tuesday, by fast-tracking infrastructure investment and slashing property
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BRUSSELS, June 30 (Reuters): The United Nations pushed governments at a virtual conference on Tuesday for nearly $10 billion in aid for Syria, where nine years of war has displaced millions in a human
JERUSALEM, June 30 (Reuters): An Israeli minister played down on Tuesday the likelihood of major moves to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank on July 1, the planned starting point for c
TURKANA, Kenya, June 30 (Reuters): The branches on trees around Kenya's northern town of Lodwar have been stripped bare of leaves, bending downwards under the weight of voracious young locusts. &nbs
GENEVA, June 30 (Reuters): The World Health Organization (WHO) will "read carefully" a Chinese study on a new flu virus found in pigs, a spokesman said on Tuesday, saying the findings underscored
CARACAS, June 30 (Reuters): Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday ordered the European Union envoy to leave the country, hours after the EU announced sanctions against several officials loyal to th
MANILA, June 30 (Reuters): After taking a job in a hospital's COVID-19 emergency room, Philippine doctor Jan Claire Dorado planned to move out of the family home to protect relatives from the risk of i
LONDON, June 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The coronavirus pandemic is reversing progress on ending child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM), jeopardising the futures of millions of girls, a s
HONG KONG, June 30 (Reuters): A pro-democracy group led by Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong disbanded on Tuesday, hours after China's parliament passed national security legislation for the Chinese-ruled
SHANGHAI, June 30 (Reuters): A new flu virus found in Chinese pigs has become more infectious to humans and needs to be watched closely in case it becomes a potential "pandemic virus", a study sa
HONG KONG/BEIJING, June 30 (Reuters): China's parliament passed national security legislation for Hong Kong on Tuesday, setting the stage for the most radical changes to the former British colony's
Washington, June 30 (IANS) The global death toll due to COVID-19 crossed 5 million mark on Monday, as the total number of cases crossed the 10 million mark, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
Geneva, June 30 (IANS) The head of the World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is not even close to being over. It has now been six months since the first cases of a myst
Washington, June 30 (IANS) Former US President Barack Obama has slammed his successor Donald Trump who tries to promote anti-Asian sentiment by using racist language "kung flu" to call the coronavirus
MOSCOW, June 29 (Reuters): Twenty-year-old Russians Yekaterina Mikhailova and Iya Barsegyan have only ever known life under President Vladimir Putin who rose to power in 1999, before they were even born.
GENEVA, June 29 (Reuters): The COVID-19 pandemic is not even close to being over, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Monday. Tedros noted that, six m
BANGKOK, June 29 (Reuters): Undercover video obtained for an investigation into alleged animal cruelty shows baby elephants in Thailand taken from their mothers then exposed to abusive training methods to
WASHINGTON, June 29 Reuters): A spike in U.S. coronavirus infections is fueled in large part by people ignoring public health guidelines to keep their distance and wear masks, the government's top infe
RIYADH, June 29 (Reuters): Saudi and U.S. officials on Monday urged the global community to extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran, saying that failing to do so would allow Tehran to further arm its proxies an
TAIPEI, June 29 (Reuters): Fighting erupted in Taiwan's parliament on Monday as lawmakers from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) broke through barricades erected by the main opposition Kuom
