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By Chang-Ran Kim TOKYO (Reuters) - Karate has fought a long, hard battle to earn its place as an Olympic sport. Despite its 100 million practitioners worldwide, a solid place in popular culture and a ...

By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Tokyo will be the first Summer Games in a quarter of a century without Michael Phelps, the greatest of Olympic medal machines, but even if the giant has gone U.S. sw...

By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Trying to knock Britain's track cyclists off their perch at the Olympics has proved a fruitless task for their rivals. Just when the Australians, Dutch, Americans a...

By Minh Nguyen CUC PHUONG, Vietnam (Reuters) - Vietnamese conservationist Nguyen Van Thai recalls in detail the moment when, as a boy, he watched his neighbours dig up and kill a female pangolin that ...

By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - In a few weeks hockey players line up in Tokyo for the 24th time at the summer Olympics, knowing some fear its days as a core sport in the Games could be numbered ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced plans on Tuesday to launch a second national airline as part of a broader strategy to turn the kingdom into a global logisti...

By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's industrial output posted the biggest monthly drop in a year in May, as a sharp fall in car production threatened to undermine the country's economic recove...

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military appears just days away from completing its withdrawal from Afghanistan, well ahead of the Sept. 11 deadline set by President Joe...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill to remove statues honoring those who upheld slavery or backed the Confederacy from the Capitol b...

By Julia Payne LONDON (Reuters) - Mercuria Energy Group had a boom year in 2020, buoyed by the extreme volatility seen in oil markets caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as very strong returns ac...