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DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan is preparing to take in up to 100,000 refugees from neighbouring Afghanistan where fighting has escalated as United States-led troops withdraw, a senior Tajik official ...

By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Transparency and gender equality are the highlights for boxing at the Tokyo Olympics as the sport aims to turn the page on the acrimonious 2016 Games which was mar...

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -KPMG's audits of banks needed improvements for the third year running and the accounting firm will be closely monitored, Britain's auditing watchdog said on Friday in it...

(Reuters) - Focus on beach volleyball at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * Each team consists of two players competing on a sand court measuring 16m x 8m. The net is 2.43m high for men an...

LONDON (Reuters) - British plans to roll out daily contact testing within the food chain to prevent workers from having to isolate when 'pinged' by the COVID-19 app could cover up to 10,000 people, th...

Hunter Renfroe drove in the winning run on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th inning as the host Boston Red Sox rallied past the New York Yankees 5-4 on Thursday in the opener of a four-game se...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's government has decided to make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for healthcare workers as part of efforts to contain the pandemic, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public...

LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile operator Vodafone reported a better-than-expected 3.3% rise in first-quarter service revenue on Friday, including a one-off gain of around 1.0 percentage point following COVI...

By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Naomi Osaka has had her opening match in the Olympic women's singles event pushed back by a day to Sunday following a request from Tokyo 2020 organisers, t...

(Reuters) - China is delivering two million COVID-19 vaccine shots to Myanmar this week to help fight a growing outbreak in the border area, officials said, as a spike in infections in the Southeast A...