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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran started military exercises near its border with Azerbaijan on Friday as tensions between the two neighbours rose over issues including Baku's relations with Tehran's arch-enemy ...

By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba is speeding up its COVID-19 vaccination program as it aims to fully inoculate 90% of its population against the coronavirus by December, an ambi...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge dismissed Pfizer Inc's challenge to a U.S. anti-kickback law that the drugmaker said prevents it from helping Medicare patients afford two drugs that t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department said Friday that 3,700 employees had been temporarily furloughed after Congress failed to reauthorize surface transportation programs before a...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish Red Crescent is sending aid to Afghanistan to feed internally displaced people in need amid turmoil following the Taliban's takeover, the organisation's head said on F...

DAKAR (Reuters) - The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) on Friday said it has halted its work in Burkina Faso on the order of the government after the aid group voiced concern about local authorities' c...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - A two-part version of Banksy's "Girl With Balloon" painting is seen fetching up to $4.75 million when it goes under the hammer for the first time at a Christie's au...

(Reuters) - Singapore's health ministry reported 2,909 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the highest since the beginning of the pandemic, while it recorded eight new deaths from the disease. A recent s...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's main domestic spy agency has listed dozens of types of information for which Russians who disclose them abroad can be branded as "foreign agents", a move critics say create...

QUITO/GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (Reuters) - The death toll from Ecuador's worst-ever prison riot rose to 118, authorities said, while police reinforcements maintained a presence on Friday at the Penitenciari...