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BEIJING (Reuters) - Friday marks the anniversary of China's bloody crackdown of pro-democracy demonstrations in and around central Beijing's Tiananmen Square, when Chinese troops opened fire on their ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government will aim to achieve its fiscal target bearing in mind the sharp rise in spending to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Nippon TV reported on Friday. "Japan must lay the...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has approved China's Sinopharm vaccine for use against COVID-19, local media reported on Friday. The decision to approve the vaccine was signed by Deputy Minister of Health T...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will provide Taiwan with 1.24 million doses of AstraZeneca PLC's coronavirus vaccine for free, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Friday, just hours before the shipment...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's highest court on Friday adjourned an appeal by the government which sought to extradite a man to China to face murder charges but did not dismiss the request entir...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported on Friday 24 new coronavirus cases on the mainland for June 3, the same number as a day earlier, the country's health authority said in a statement. Of the new infec...

(Reuters) - Top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has called on China to release the medical records of nine people whose ailments might provide vital clues into whether COVID-19 first ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Bitcoin slipped more than 3% on Friday after Tesla boss Elon Musk fired off a tweet hinting at a breakup with the cryptocurrency, though it remains on course for its best weekly ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices dropped on Friday as concerns about the patchy roll-out of anti-coronavirus vaccinations around the globe tempered optimism earlier in the week that demand for fuels was r...

By Gabriel Burin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Brazil's real will likely stay buoyant in the coming weeks but the currency's medium-term prospects are still obscured by investor worries about the pace of r...