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QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador has reached a new staff-level agreement with the IMF that could result in $1.5 billion in new disbursements this year following promises by President Guillermo Lasso's govern...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government proposed on Thursday to extend its emergency restrictions in Tokyo and other regions, aiming to curb COVID-19 infections and preventing hospitals from being overwh...

LONDON (Reuters) - British employers are facing the most severe shortage of job candidates on record due to the post-lockdown surge in the economy and Brexit, pushing up starting pay for permanent sta...

By Jane Lanhee Lee (Reuters) -Boston-Based cyber security software startup Snyk on Wednesday said it raised $300 million in fresh funds and the company was now valued at $8.5 billion. Synk's technolog...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is extending its COVID-19 emergency aid for struggling companies by three months until the end of this year, the finance and economy ministries said on Wednesday. Companies ...

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi discussed on Wednesday the Afghan crisis with Turkish President Tayyip Erdoan ahead of a G20 summit to be held in Rome on Oct. 30-31, Draghi's off...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday it asked 18 Trump administration appointees to resign from military academy boards, saying President Joe Biden would require such officials to ...

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The city of Loveland, Colorado, has agreed to pay $3 million to an elderly woman with dementia who suffered a dislocated shoulder and broken arm while being forcefu...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Authorities will announce plans on Thursday to bring Sydney out of an extended COVID-19 lockdown, with fully vaccinated residents to be freed from stay-home orders by the end of Oct...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's federal health regulator said on Wednesday that documents provided by a Sao Paulo biomedical center attesting to the safety of over 12 million doses of the Coronava...