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BENGALURU (Reuters) - India reported 29,689 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Tuesday, for the lowest daily rise since March 17, according to a Reuters tally. Ind...

By Sam Nussey and Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympic host city Tokyo has asked hospitals to prepare more beds for COVID-19 patients as the Japanese capital grapples with a rise in infections,...

(Reuters) - Chipmaking equipment supplier BE Semiconductor (BESI) beat its second-quarter revenue targets on Tuesday, driven by higher-than-anticipated shipments from its order backlog. Soaring demand...

YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Canada won the bronze medal in softball at the Tokyo Games on Tuesday by beating Mexico 3-2. The United States play Japan for the gold medal later on Tuesday in a rematch o...

By Steve Keating TOKYO (Reuters) - With "King" Kohei Uchimura having stepped down there will be a new Olympic all-around men's gymnastics champion crowned at the Tokyo Games on Wednesday, with Russia,...

(Reuters) - French payment firm Worldline said on Tuesday it bought Handelsbanken's card-acquiring activities in the Nordic countries as it posted a rise in first-half core profit on the back of a pos...

By Chang-Ran Kim CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Tonga's flag-bearing duo exited the taekwondo Tokyo Olympics tournament after no-contest matches against far superior opponents, but the South Pacific islande...

ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan reported record numbers of fresh COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, standing at 6,797 and 789 respectively, signalling that Central Asia has yet to overcome t...

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Catholic Church has converted a pastoral centre in Jakarta into an isolation ward to care for COVID-19 patients in the Indonesian capital as it battles an d...

By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - New Zealand boxer David Nyika did not face much trouble on his way to a 5-0 victory against Youness Baalla in his Olympics heavyweight debut on Tuesday other than ...