OTTAWA, June 2 (Reuters): Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, when asked about U.S. President Donald Trump's possibly calling in the military to quell protests, paused for more than 20 seconds
PHILADELPHIA, June 2 (Reuters): Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday vowed in a speech to try to heal the racial divide in America and blasted President Donald Trump's response to pro
DUBAI, June 2 (Reuters): An Iranian professor imprisoned in the United States after being acquitted of stealing trade secrets has left the country and is on his way back to Iran, Foreign Minister Mohammad
MANILA, June 2 (Reuters): Lawyers and human rights activists in the Philippines have raised the alarm over a new anti-terrorism bill pushed by President Rodrigo Duterte, warning of draconian and arbit
GENEVA, June 2 (Reuters): Protests in U.S. cities triggered by the killing of George Floyd underscore "police violence" against people of colour, and historic inequalities in access to health, ed
MOSCOW, June 2 (Reuters): President Vladimir Putin approved a strategic document on Tuesday naming the creation and deployment of anti-missile and strike weapons in space as one of the main military threat
MANILA, June 2 (Reuters): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has suspended his decision to scrap a two-decade-old troop deployment agreement with the United States due to political and other developments
WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters): Eight states and the District of Columbia hold primary elections on Tuesday, the biggest test yet of officials' readiness to manage a surge of mail ballots and the safety
LONDON, June 2 (Reuters): The United Kingdom on Tuesday called on China to step back from the brink over a national security law in Hong Kong that it said was a breach of Beijing's international commit
GENEVA, June 2 (Reuters): New cases of COVID-19 reported daily are steadily declining in Western Europe, but not in hotspots in Russia and Eastern Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesda
BEIJING, June 2 (Reuters): The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the novel coronavirus outbreak first emerged, found no new cases of COVID-19 and 300 asymptomatic carriers after testing most of its 11 million r
BRUSSELS, June 2 (Reuters): The European Union is "shocked and appalled" by the death of black American George Floyd in police custody, the bloc's top diplomat said on Tuesday, calling it &qu
BEIJING, June 2 (Reuters): Two years ago, Zhou Xiaoxuan publicly accused one of China's most recognizable people of groping and forcibly kissing her, setting off a firestorm in a country that did not s
HONG KONG, June 2 (Reuters): When Ming Wong saw that Britain was prepared to offer extended visa rights and a "path to citizenship" for British National Overseas (BNO) passport holders in Hong Ko
TUNIS, June 2 (Reuters): Libya's warring parties have agreed to restart ceasefire talks, the United Nations mission to the country said late on Monday after weeks of intense fighting near the capital T
WASHINGTON/MINNEAPOLIS, June 2 (Reuters): Four St Louis police officers were hit by gunfire late on Monday during violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody, hours after President Don
DHAKA, June 2 (Reuters): An elderly Rohingya refugee has become the first person to die from coronavirus in the camps in southern Bangladesh, officials said on Tuesday.
The man, aged 71, died
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The World Health Organization (WHO) should have enough information in 24 hours to decide whether to continue suspending its trials of hydroxychloroquine for use against the new coronavirus, its chief
WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS, June 1 (Reuters): The United States will end its relationship with the World Health Organization over the body's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Donald T
JERUSALEM, June 1 (Reuters): Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Monday he ordered the military to step up preparations for Israel's pending annexation of parts of the West Bank, a plan that could