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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Saturday reported nearly 24,000 new COVID-19 cases and a repeat all-time high in the number of daily deaths, at 799, but some officials suggested that infections, especiall...

By Martyn Herman TOKYO (Reuters) - Ecuador's Richard Carapaz produced an incredible late burst to win the gold medal in a thrilling Olympic men's road race as favourite Tadej Pogacar was beaten into t...

By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Thousands of Hungarians planned to join the annual Budapest Pride march on Saturday in a show of support for LGBT people and to protest against a law banning th...

MILAN (Reuters) - Six athletes and seven officials from Italy's Olympic delegation are being quarantined at the Tokyo 2020 Village after coming into "close contact" with a journalist who tested positi...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo reported 1,128 COVID-19 cases on Saturday as Japan's capital kicked off the Olympic Games. Infections have been on the rise in recent weeks, reaching 1,979 on Thursday, the hig...

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - The reign of Japan's "King Kohei" Uchimura, two-time Olympics all-around champion and holder of seven Olympic medals, came to an abrupt end on Saturday when he failed ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Indonesian island of Bali is running out of oxygen for its COVID-19 patients as infections surge, the chief of its health agency said, as Southeast Asia's biggest country strug...

TOKYO (Reuters) - South Korea won the gold medal in the archery mixed team event on Saturday, bringing the country's its first gold at the Tokyo Olympics. Netherlands took silver and Mexico claimed br...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 organisers added to speculation that scandal-hit former chief Yoshiro Mori could return as an honorary adviser on Saturday when they stopped short of dismissing a report a...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Emergency sirens sounded in the southern Russian region of Sochi overnight after rivers burst their banks in heavy rain for a second time this month and flooding closed a motorway. ...