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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's COVID-19 surge is on the edge of a "catastrophe" as the more infectious Delta variant dominates transmission and chokes hospitals in Southeast Asia's worst epidemic, th...

ROME (Reuters) - The United States hopes for more stable and profitable relations with Russia but if the latter continues "to attack", then Washington will respond, Secretary of State Antony Blinken s...

(Reuters) - Australia tightened curbs in three cities to contain flare-ups of the highly infectious Delta variant, while COVID-19 infections in Africa are set to likely exceed previous peaks within da...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Evergrande Group said on Tuesday its interest-bearing indebtedness has dropped to around 570 billion yuan ($88.23 billion), from 716.5 billion yuan at the end of 2020. The ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Lonza Group on Tuesday restated its 2020 results to reflect the discontinuation of its specialty ingredients business, as well as a rejig of its business structure and performance m...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea plans to secure more mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 to use them as a booster shot next year for its entire population, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said on T...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - A former South Korean prosecutor-general launched on Tuesday a bid to become president in an election next year saying the administration of President Moon Jae-in was...

(Reuters) - World number three Simona Halep has become the latest big-name tennis player to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics after the Romanian said she would not recover from a calf injury in time. H...

By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - Ethos Invest plans to raise 1 billion pounds ($1.39 billion) for what it said would be the world's biggest Sharia-compliant fintech-focused private equity fund, the ...

By Hyunjoo Jin and Supantha Mukherjee (Reuters) - Don Joyce, a Nokia director working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully slow phone-line internet in favor o...