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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will raise coronavirus restrictions to the highest level in capital Seoul and some neighbouring regions from Monday, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said on Friday. The annou...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese authorities in the southwestern province of Yunnan reported eight new confirmed locally transmitted cases for July 8. This compared with two confirmed locally transmitted ...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday said Pfizer will increase COVID-19 vaccine delivery to about one million doses a week from July 19, more than tripli...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - At least 11 people have been injured after a hot air balloon crashed into a house in a popular tourist town in the South Island of New Zealand. The crash occurred at about 10 a....

(Reuters) - Nick Kyrgios will not represent Australia at this year's Olympics in Tokyo because he does not want to compete if there are no fans in the stands, he said on Thursday. Earlier in the day, ...

(Reuters) - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck central California on Thursday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said, adding the quake had a depth of 10 kms (6.21 miles). (Reporti...

LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Rishi Sunak called for progress on a global deal to agree a minimum corporate tax rate and how to split revenue from large multinationals, as finance minist...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - In a snub to El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, more than three-quarters of Salvadorans are skeptical of the maverick leader's push to adopt the cryptocurrency bitcoin as p...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico reported 9,452 new confirmed COVID-19 infections on Thursday, according to data from the health ministry, as case numbers continued to rise this week amid signs of a res...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced on Thursday that it terminated the commercial paper funding facility, an emergency lending program launched during the pandemic to h...