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By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis made a private pre-dawn visit to a Rome religious landmark on Wednesday for the second year in a row because of the COVID-19 pandemic and decried the "...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police searched homes and businesses and made several arrests across 12 states on Wednesday as part of an investigation into foreign workers being brought in illegally to be ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has reported its fourth case of the Omicron coronavirus variant, TV Asahi said on Wednesday. The fresh case was a man in his 50s who had stayed in Nigeria, the network reported...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong government proposal to change the legal aid system could violate the constitutionally guaranteed right of people to choose legal representation in the event that they...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Omicron variant has been reported in 57 nations, with COVID cases rising in southern Africa including Zimbabwe, and the number of patients needing hospitalisation is likely to r...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Demand for office space is set to rise in the long term as the trend toward digitalising work offsets the pandemic-triggered impact of more people working from home, a study by Swis...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Stricter coronavirus restrictions increase people's willingness to receive the vaccine against the coronavirus, a survey in the German-Austrian border regions published showed on We...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation will take longer to fall back to target than earlier thought but so far there is no evidence that high prices are becoming embedded in wages, ECB Vice Preside...

MADRID (Reuters) - Two Spanish police officers waded into a frozen reservoir to rescue a stranded dog as a cold front arrived in the northern part of the country, police said on Wednesday. Video foota...

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian COVID-19 vaccine makers are lobbying the government to authorise boosters as supplies have so outstripped demand that one drugmaker told Reuters it had s...