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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Downtown Sydney and the city's eastern suburbs, which include Bondi Beach, will go into a one week lockdown from midnight Friday as authorities struggle to contain a spike in the hig...

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar held near multi-month highs on Friday as investors warily awaited U.S. inflation data, while the pound nursed modest losses after Bank of England...

By Marine Strauss, Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders failed to agree on a proposal by France and Germany to hold a summit soon with Russian President Vladimir...

By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two leading U.S. senators have called on President Joe Biden to use powers under a bill they authored to impose sanctions on those responsible for forcing th...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Athena Bitcoin plans to invest over $1 million to install cryptocurrency ATMs in El Salvador, especially where residents receive remittances from abroad, a company representat...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Bitmain, China's biggest maker of cryptocurrency mining machines, said it had suspended sales of its products in the spot market to help ease selling pressure following Beijing's b...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A fire tore through a martial arts training centre in China's Henan province on Friday killing at least 18 people, Chinese state media reported. The blaze at Shangqiu city also wou...

By Adrian Portugal and Peter Blaza MANILA (Reuters) - Each morning, a group of Filipinos rakes up piles of trash on the banks of one of the world's most polluted rivers, filling sacks in an endless pu...

By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp kicked off its annual general meeting on Friday, with shareholders set to decide on whether to keep Osamu Nagayama as board chairman. The vote - expec...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The virus that causes COVID-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in the central city of Wuhan, a new ...