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By Mitch Phillips TOKYO (Reuters) - Defending champion Elaine Thompson-Herah delivered the first seminal moment of the Olympic athletics programme on Saturday when she became the second-fastest woman ...

By Juarawee Kittisilpa BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai hospital morgue overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths has begun storing bodies in refrigerated containers, resorting to a measure it last took in a devastati...

By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - The mastermind behind a 2019 attack that killed 40 Indian paramilitary troops has been killed in a shootout with security forces, Indian police in Kashmir ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency said on Saturday that pressure in a Russian service module on the International Space Station had dropped as a result of an air leak. Pre...

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron called for the opening of talks to end hostilities in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray, the Elysee Palace said in a statement on Saturday. The st...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam will from Monday impose strict curbs on movement in its business hub Ho Chi Minh City and another 18 cities and provinces throughout its south for another two weeks to help c...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Taiwan's Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin won the badminton men's doubles Olympic gold medal on Saturday by beating China's Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen 21-18 21-12 at the Tokyo Games. The Chin...

By Omar Mohammed TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States' hopes of a first gold medal in more than half a century in the 800 metres got a boost on Saturday when 19-year old Athing Mu won her semi-final ra...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Qatar's Fares Ibrahim Elbakh won the gold medal in the men's 96 kg weightlifting event and set an Olympic record of a combined lift of 402 kg at the Tokyo Games on Saturday. Venezuel...

By Martyn Herman TOKYO (Reuters) - The track cycling events begin at the Izu velodrome, 130km south west of Tokyo, on Monday. Here are five riders to watch: LAURA KENNY (Britain) Kenny is the golden g...