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By Junko Fujita and Paresh Dave YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Young pitchers from Nippon Professional Baseball in the biggest game of their careers led Japan to a first Olympic gold medal in the sport w...

By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - France beat the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team in the men's volleyball final on Saturday in a sensational five-set match to grab their first Olympic gold medal...

By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - At least 30 South Sudanese soldiers were killed and 13 injured in clashes between forces loyal to Vice President Riek Machar and a splinter group, Machar's party spokesm...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain recorded 28,612 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, down from 31,808 a day earlier, and 103 deaths, higher than the 92 reported on Friday, official data showed. The data...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Tencent Holdings-backed Chinese education firm VIPKid said on Saturday it would stop selling classes taught by foreign-based tutors to students in China with immediate effect to c...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said in a video released Saturday that COVID-19 infections have started to surge outside the populous Java-Bali islands, and that movement restrict...

TRAPANI, Italy (Reuters) - A ship carrying 257 migrants docked in the Italian port of Trapani on Saturday almost a week after rescuing the people from international waters off Tunisia. Migrants onboar...

(fixes spelling of Malcom throughout) By Simon Evans YOKOHAMA (Reuters) -Brazil retained their Olympic football title with substitute Malcom scoring an extra-time winner in a 2-1 victory over Spain in...

TAPIOBICSKE, Hungary (Reuters) - Some 40 Hungarian husbands, with their wives on their backs, clambered over rough terrain on Saturday in the nation's second wife-carrying contest. A previous race in ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Protesters marched in cities across France on Saturday in a fourth consecutive weekend of demonstrations, denouncing what they see as oppressive rules compelling them to get COVID-19...