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By Silke Koltrowitz ZURICH (Reuters) - A Swiss law giving the police new powers to fight terrorism could expose people to torture abroad and risks harming children, human rights and legal experts told...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's major chip packager King Yuan Electronics will halt production on the island for two days after several employees contracted COVID-19, Central News Agency reported on Frida...

(Reuters) - European stocks inched higher on Friday in cautious trading ahead of U.S. jobs data, with economic recovery hopes putting the main benchmark on course for its third weekly gain. The pan-Eu...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - No negative side-effects were detected during trials of a combined COVID-19 vaccine using AstraZeneca and Oxford University's shots and Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, the Interfax news...

(Reuters) - The top lawyer for Myanmar's deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, voiced concern on Friday that she had no legal representative listed in the case against her brought by the military junta fo...

MILAN (Reuters) - The European Commission is set to launch an infringement procedure against Italy over a media law potentially curbing Vivendi's interests in the country, newspaper la Repubblica repo...

PARIS (Reuters) - French finance minister Bruno Le Maire urged all members of the G7, which France is part of, to seize the opportunity to broker a deal on a global minimal corporate tax rate. "A glob...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss exchange company SIX on Friday said it was consolidating Swiss and Spanish exchange platforms, as it seeks to boost performance following its 2.57 billion euro ($3.11 billion)...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - A series of explosions rocked an ammunition plant's facilities in the Serbian town of Cacak in the early hours of Friday morning, but there were no reports of casualties, local me...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency has voiced strong opposition to a law passed by Denmark's parliament that would allow processing of claims lodged by asylum seekers outside Europe, calling i...