CLUJ, Romania/BUCHAREST, May 29 (Reuters): Soon after a two-month lockdown to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus eased in Romania in mid-May, Grigore Lup, a Romanian shoemaker from the Transylvanian city
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TUNIS/ANKARA/CAIRO, May 29 (Reuters): As Turkish drones helped drive eastern Libyan forces back from Tripoli this month, Russia was said to be reinforcing them with warplanes, raising the stakes in a stale
NEW YORK, May 29 (Reuters): A spike in harassment of Asian-Americans since the coronavirus pandemic began has led community activists in the United States to fight back - forming street patrols, rallying o
TOKYO, May 29 (Reuters): The phones at the Tokyo suicide hotline start ringing as soon as it opens for its once-weekly overnight session. They don't stop until the lone volunteer fielding calls from hu
KATHMANDU, May 29 (Reuters): Had it not been for the coronavirus, Nepali climbing guide Tashi Lakpa Sherpa would have been on Mount Everest now, guiding clients and trying to add another feather in hi
Reuters Twitter hid a tweet from President Donald Trump on Friday, accusing him of breaking its rules by "glorifying violence" in a message that said looters at protests in Minneapolis would be sho
HONG KONG, MAY 29 (Reuters): - Hong Kong told the United States to keep out of the debate over national security legislation being imposed by China, and warned that withdrawal of the financial hub'
BANGKOK, May 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Cases of online child sex abuse in the Philippines have tripled under coronavirus, the government said, with campaigners warning that the country's lockdow
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Coronavirus is threatening to undo recent gains made toward gender equality as millions of women and girls are predicted to have unwanted pregnancies and fall in
Karachi, May 29 (IANS): The cockpit voice recorder of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane which crashed in Karachi on May 22 killing 97 people, has been found in the wreckage, the media reporte
San Francisco, May 29 (IANS): Far from expanding the scope of free speech online, US President Donald Trump's executive order on "preventing online censorship" may have the opposite effect, social
Hong Kong, May 29 (IANS): Nearly 100 children were arrested during this week's protests in Hong Kong against China's plan to press ahead with a national security law for the city, and also the controver
Sydney, May 29 (IANS): An Australian zookeeper has sustained critical injuries to her head and neck after being mauled by a lion at a zoo in New South Wales (NSW) state on Friday. Ambulance personn
Canberra, May 29 (IANS): An Australian court on Friday ruled in favour of historian Jenny Hocking and allowed her access to letters between Queen Elizabeth II and her representative in the country during the di
New York, May 29 (IANS): At least 40 people were arrested in New York City as people took to the streets to protest against the death of a black man in police custody in Minneapolis. Over 100 peopl
Washington, May 29 (IANS) The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 5.8 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 360,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As
San Francisco, May 29 (IANS) Amid the growing tension with US President Donald Trump over fact-checking his tweets, Twitter has now flagged a couple of tweets posted by China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson
New Delhi, May 29 (PTI): United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday that coronavirus was a 'very bad gift' from China to the rest of the world, as America surpassed the grim milestone of over
SOFIA, May 28 (Reuters): Bulgaria’s highest appeals court on Thursday dismissed a request by the former chief prosecutor to review the parole granted to an Australian convicted of murder in 2009, mea
KIGALI, May 28 (Reuters): A Rwandan court on Thursday handed a life sentence to a former politician found guilty of orchestrating the killing of tens of thousands of people during the 1994 genocide, a cour
