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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Flights were cancelled, highways shut and essential services disrupted as an Antarctic polar blast swept New Zealand on Tuesday, bringing heavy snow, powerful waves and icy temp...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - With his inauspicious Argentina debut nothing but a distant memory, Lionel Messi became his country's most capped player on Monday in their 4-1 Copa America victory over Boliv...

By Tom Allard and Kate Lamb JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's government will wait until COVID-19 cases fall significantly before opening Bali to foreign tourists, the country's tourism minister said in...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's foreign minister headed to the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday in the first official visit by an Israeli minister to the Gulf state since the two countries established d...

MANILA (Reuters) - President Rodrigo Duterte has prolonged restrictions on movement and businesses in the Philippine capital and nearby provinces until mid-July, and retained stricter COVID-19 curbs i...

(Corrects to remove extraneous words in first paragraph) (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson will not be undertaking local trials for its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine in India, the Economic Times reported o...

By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - A Hindu group has filed a complaint with police against Twitter's country head for showing regions outside a map of India on its website, kickstarting an i...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's deputy prime minister was fined for failing to wear a mask in a service station in violation of COVID-19 prevention orders, the authorities said on Tuesday, the country'...

By Takashi Umekawa and Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO (Reuters) - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shareholders on Tuesday defeated a proposal for the bank to align its business with global targets on climate ch...

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping urged Chinese Communist Party members to remain loyal and continue to serve the people, after awarding a new medal of the highest honou...