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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand on Sunday extended tighter containment measures in the capital and high-risk provinces until the end of August, government sources said, to slow the spread of COVID-19 as ...

By Toshiki Hashimoto KAWAGOE, Japan (Reuters) - If Slovakia's fledgling golf industry enjoys a boost in sales in coming weeks, it might have a stocky South African to thank after Rory Sabbatini earned...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators are expected to move forward on Sunday on a sweeping $1 trillion package for roads, rail lines and other infrastructure, with text of a bill due to be delivered. T...

By Paresh Dave YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Home plate umpire Fabrizio Fabrizi said he drank 1.65 litres of water to get him through the longest, hottest baseball game of the Tokyo Olympics while one p...

(Refiles to provide full name of reporter at end of story text) ABOARD SEA-WATCH 3, Mediterranean (Reuters) -Two humanitarian rescue ships pulled 394 migrants from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boa...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Firefighters in Turkey battled on Sunday to control five wildfires including ones in the coastal resort towns of Manavgat and Marmaris, but most of the dozens of blazes that erupt...

By Steve Keating TOKYO (Reuters) - Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat won the men's individual floor exercise by a whisker on Sunday, edging Spain's Rayderley Zapata after both posted the same score to w...

By Philip O'Connor ENOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Matt Wearns's decision as a promising young athlete to choose sailing over Australian Rules football paid off handsomely at the Enoshima Yachting Harbour...

Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta claimed the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday after posting a 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3 victory over top-seeded Serbian Novak Djokovic. The sixth-seeded Carreno Busta...

By Richa Naidu TOKYO (Reuters) - As a boy in Guatemala, Kevin Cordon had one ambition -- to make it to the Olympics. When he qualified for the 2008 Beijing Games, he got the five Olympic Rings tattooe...