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TOKYO (Reuters) - Arlen Lopez of Cuba beat Britain's Ben Whittaker to win the Olympic gold medal in the men's light-heavyweight boxing in Tokyo on Wednesday. Whittaker won the silver while Loren Berto...

KABUL (Reuters) - An explosion near a facility of Afghanistan's main security agency in the capital, Kabul, on Wednesday wounded two civilians and a security official, police said. The blast near a Na...

By Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) - After more than a year at the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese emergency doctor Shoji Yokobori finds himself at the unlikely calm of the Olympics, overs...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The chair of Thailand's Thonburi Healthcare Group (THG) said on Wednesday that a deal to import 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was unlikely to happen, des...

By Ju-min Park KAWAGOE, Japan (Reuters) - Madelene Sagstrom shot a flawless five-under 66 to put Sweden top of the leaderboard at the women's Olympic golf on Wednesday as American world number one Nel...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have appointed Brunei's second minister for foreign affairs, Erywan Yusof, as special envoy to Myanmar,fou...

(Refiles to fix chart, no changes to text) A look at the day ahead from Danilo Masoni. Equity markets continue to rally as if there were no tomorrow, shrugging off COVID-19 and signs of slowing econom...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Top-ranked United States crushed the Dominican Republic in straight sets on Wednesday to reach the women's Olympic volleyball semi-finals, while South Korea stunned Turkey in a thril...

IZU, Japan (Reuters) - Australian track cyclist Matthew Glaetzer has withdrawn from Wednesday's individual sprint and been replaced by Matthew Richardson, Olympic organisers said on Wednesday. No deta...

BEIJING (Reuters) - ByteDance rival Kuaishou Technology said on Wednesday it would stop services of its short video app Zynn on Aug. 20. The termination of Zynn is part of its normal operations, and t...