BRASILIA, June 5 (Reuters): One of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks, a paralyzed economy sending investors fleeing for the exit, and accusations that he has undermined Brazil's young democra
MINNEAPOLIS, June 5 (Reuters) - Prominent civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton told mourners on Thursday George Floyd's fatal encounter with police and the nationwide protests his death ignited m
Washington, June 5 (IANS) The total number of global coronavirus has increased to over 6.6 million, while the death toll has topped 389,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of Friday
Los Angeles, June 5 (IANS) A night-time curfew has been lifted in the Los Angeles County as largely peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd continued across the area.
"Based upon curr
LONDON, June 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Major brands taking to social media to condemn racial inequalities have been challenged to back up their words with action to tackle a lack of black leadership
MEXICO CITY, June 4 (Reuters): Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador defended his government's handling of the coronavirus on Thursday after official data showed new deaths for a 24-hour period
BRUSSELS/COPENHAGEN, June 5 (Reuters): As bars across Europe gradually reopen, up to a million free or pre-paid beers are waiting to lure back wary consumers.
Beer makers from global giant Anh
LONDON, June 5 (Reuters): The coronavirus pandemic could encourage a generation to turn away from a culture of selfishness, with young people now wanting to do jobs where they can help others, Dutch histor
LONDON, June 4 (Reuters): British and German police say a German child sex offender, currently in prison in Germany, is a prime suspect in the hunt for missing Madeleine McCann who vanished in Portugal 13
BERLIN, June 4 (Reuters): Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is assumed to be dead and an imprisoned German child abuser is the murder suspect, a German
KABUL, JUNE 4 (IANS): Sirajuddin Haqqani, the deputy leader of the Taliban, said that despite it's belief in the peace negotiation talks as one of the core components of the solution to the conflict in Afgh
JERUSALEM, June 4 (Reuters): Israel's intention to annex parts of the occupied West Bank is being challenged by Jewish settlers who might have been expected to cheer the plan promoted by Prime Minister
KABUL, June 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): With pliers in hand, a group of Afghan girls fashion make-do ventilators from car parts, bike chains and machine sensors, an imperfect solution to the country
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A key measure of carbon dioxide emissions in the Earth's atmosphere hit a record in May even as a global pandemic brought the world's economies to a virtual standstill this year, ac
BERLIN, June 4 (Reuters): Under pressure from its European peers for years to spend more, Germany has finally served up a bumper stimulus package financed with new debt, but Berlin's rediscovered love
YANGON, June 4 (Reuters): To most people in Myanmar, food waste is nothing but garbage, and that attitude leaves Inda Soe Aung baffled.
But the 35-year-old environmentalist isn't complaini
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters): Battered by crisis after crisis, President Donald Trump appears to be in political peril as never before.
Since taking office in 2017, Trump has weathered storm a
BARCELONA, June 4 (Reuters): Queues for food banks have swollen in Spain as the coronavirus crisis has left hundreds of thousands of people teetering on the edge of poverty.
For mother-of-two
HONG KONG/BEIJING, June 4 (Reuters): People in Hong Kong planned to light candles across the city on Thursday to commemorate the bloody 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops in and around Tiananmen Square, circ
GENEVA, June 4 (Reuters): Tens of thousands of people in the Philippines may have been killed in the war on drugs since mid-2016, amid "near impunity" for police and incitement to violence by top