BEIJING, June 12 (Reuters): Beijing shut six major wholesale food markets on Friday and delayed plans for some students to return to school after China's capital reported new coronavirus infections for
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NEW YORK, June 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The coronavirus pandemic has put millions of children at risk of being pushed into underage labor, reversing two decades of work to combat the practice and p
WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters): President Donald Trump on Thursday authorized U.S. economic and travel sanctions against International Criminal Court employees involved in an investigation into whether Amer
JERUSALEM, June 12 (Reuters): Israel cannot expect to normalise relations with the Arab world if it annexes land in the occupied West Bank, a United Arab Emirates envoy wrote in Israel's top newspaper
LONDON, June 12 (Reuters): Fears of a second wave of COVID-19 infections grew on Friday with a record daily increase in India, warnings against complacency in Europe and word from half a dozen U.S. states
HONG KONG, June 12 (Reuters): The Hong Kong government and China's foreign ministry branch in the city hit back on Friday at a report by Britain criticising Beijing's plans for national security le
MOSCOW, June 12 (Reuters): President Vladimir Putin appealed to what he termed Russians' core values on Friday, the country's national day, as he sought to rally support for a vote on constitutiona
London, June 12 (IANS): A statue of late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London was boarded up as anti-racism and far-right groups both plan protests in the UK capital this weekend, a media report s
New York, June 12 (IANS): A woman in the US has said that 'Blue Lives Murder' shirts available for sale on e-commerce giant Amazon are hate speech, according to a report. For the woman named Ceteka
Seoul, June 12 (IANS): South Korea on Friday reported 56 new COVID-19 cases, with most of them in the Seoul metropolitan area, forcing health authorities to indefinitely extend toughened infection preventive me
Kabul, June 12 (IANS): Four people were killed and a few others injured as a bomb blast ripped through a mosque in Kabul, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Tareq Arian said. The mosque is located
Washington, June 12 (IANS): The US has pledged that it would continue reducing its forces in Iraq and confirmed that it does not seek permanent military presence in the country, said a joint statement on Friday
Washington, June 12 (IANS) The global number of COVID-19 cases has increased to over 7.5 million, while the death toll was nearing 421,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Friday m
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters): A divided Senate Judiciary Committee approved sweeping subpoena power on Thursday for a politically charged congressional probe of an FBI investigation into Republican Presid
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters): The Trump administration is looking at various responses to China's national security law on Hong Kong through the president's working group on capital markets, U.S.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 11 (IANS): A Belgian Prince who contracted coronavirus after attending a party during lockdown in Spain, has been fined 10,400 euros ($11,800), the media reported. Prince Joachim, a
MOSCOW, June 11 (Reuters): Moscow said on Thursday it would hand out shopping vouchers to people who take part in a vote on reforms that could let Vladimir Putin extend his rule, an offer critics denounced
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters): The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said on Thursday it had approved an amendment that would make it illegal to deploy the military against peaceful protesters, amid a n
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters): President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order authorizing U.S. sanctions against International Criminal Court employees involved in an investigation into wheth
AMMAN, June 11 (Reuters): Syrian President Bashar al Assad on Thursday dismissed prime minister Imad Khamis, state media said, in a move that follows weeks of deepening economic hardship and a rare outbrea
