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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Osaka prefecture is set to report a record number of new coronavirus cases at around 2,300 on Wednesday, Kyodo news agency reported. (Reporting by Takashi Umekawa)

By Anurag Maan and Kavya B (Reuters) -The United States reported more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, equating to around 42 fatalities an hour, according to a Reuters tally, as the Delta varian...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The new Australian professional swimming league announced just before the Tokyo Olympics has been forced to postpone the start of its inaugural season because of the third wave of C...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Delta variant has delayed an expected rate hike in New Zealand, leaving Norway likely the first G10 economy to begin the journey out of an era of emergency-level interest rate l...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd said on Wednesday its first-half net profit grew 4%, as the world's biggest car market recovers. Hangzhou-based Geely, China's highest-profile...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis issued an appeal on Wednesday urging people to get inoculated against COVID-19, saying the vaccines could bring an end to the pandemic, but needed to be taken by ...

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police said on Wednesday four students were arrested for "advocating terrorism" after their student union passed a motion last month mourning the death o...

By Fred Greaves POLLOCK PINES, Calif. (Reuters) - California's wildfire crisis escalated on Tuesday as resurgent strong winds fanned the state's biggest conflagration, drove flames from a separate, sm...

By Peter Hall (Reuters) - Cristiano Ronaldo has been linked with a host of clubs this summer but he seems set to stay put at Juventus, tasked with an even more important role in revitalising the Itali...

KABUL (Reuters) - Over 2,200 diplomats and other civilians have so far been evacuated on military flights out of Kabul, a Western security official in the Afghan capital told Reuters on Wednesday. The...