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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - World Rugby has cancelled scheduled events in Cape Town and Singapore in this year's Sevens Series due to "ongoing challenges" brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, officials c...

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - During a 2016 presidential debate, then-candidate Donald Trump made a statement that seemed brash at the time: If he were elected and got the chance to nomina...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Fighting broke out in Tripoli early on Friday between rival armed forces, witnesses said, the heaviest clashes in the Libyan capital since the conflict between eastern and western ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Former French prime minister Francois Fillon, who is appealing a five-year jail sentence for embezzling public funds, is under investigation again by financial prosecutors over payme...

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania said on Friday it had recalled its ambassador from Beijing for consultations, in a dispute over Europe's first representative office for Taiwan to use the island's name, ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Britain will not recognise the Taliban as the new government in Kabul but must deal with the new realities in Afghanistan and does not want to see the social and economic fabric ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's environment ministry said on Friday talks with visiting U.S. climate envoy John Kerry this week were "candid, in-depth and pragmatic" and the two sides would continue "dia...

BENGALURU (Reuters) - India has granted homegrown drugmaker Biological E permission to begin midstage studies of its COVID-19 vaccine in children and adolescents, according to an official statement on...

By Chris Gallagher TOKYO (Reuters) - Paris 2024 CEO Etienne Thobois praised Tokyo on Friday for its "remarkable" ability to pull off the Olympics amid the COVID-19 pandemic and said Paris was ready to...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) presented a diverse "team of the future" on Friday, turning to the lieutenants to help reboot his flagging campaign ah...