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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday reported 799 coronavirus-related deaths, the most in a single day since the pandemic began and the fourth day in a row it has set a record. Russia is in the grip of...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigative news outlet "Proekt" on Friday said it was closing down a U.S.-registered legal entity a day after authorities in Russia banned its activities, but said it wou...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was due to visit KwaZulu-Natal province - one of the flashpoints of a spasm of violence and heartland of support for his predecessor Ja...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on Cuba on Friday to release protesters and several journalists arrested at demonstrations and denounced alleged excessive use o...

By Anna Brovko and Margaryta Chornokondratenko KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - For 97-year-old Leonid Stanislavskyi, a Ukrainian who has been playing amateur tennis for over half a century, it is next to...

By Francesco Canepa FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymakers are set for a showdown next week as they chart a new policy path amid growing fears of a third wave of coronavirus infectio...

By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's Prime Minister on Friday accused the European Commission of "legalised hooliganism" for an infringement action against measures by his government that ...

By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's military rescued five telecommunications workers kidnapped by Islamist militants last month close to the Afghan border in a series of o...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank said on Friday it would steadily push forward pilot schemes to develop its digital yuan, and will not set a timetable for rolling out the digital currency.The ...

By Gwladys Fouche UTOEYA, Norway (Reuters) - Norway will next week mark the tenth anniversary of the killing of 77 people by anti-immigrant extremist Anders Behring Breivik in the worst act of violenc...