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LUSAKA (Reuters) - The burial of Zambia's founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, started on Wednesday despite a court challenge by one of his sons against his burial site. Kaunda ruled Zambia from 1964, ...

By Noemie Olive CASSIS, France (Reuters) - Tourists visiting the picturesque port at Cassis, southern France, often see an unedifying sight: plastic bags, discarded drinks bottles, and even used surgi...

By Cooper Inveen DAKAR (Reuters) - Forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to abandon plans to open a restaurant, Danuta Nganko, a Belgian-Congolese chef in Senegal's capital Dakar, settled instead on an even...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Police responded around 8:20 Tuesday night to a ShotSpotter alert in the 700 block of E. Frye that indicated multiple shots fired. A caller also said someone had been shot....

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported on Wednesday 34,379 new coronavirus infections and 1,040 new deaths, both daily records, data from the country's COVID-19 task force showed. It was the third con...

ASHGABAT (Reuters) - Turkmenistan's healthcare ministry said on Wednesday it was making COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for all residents aged 18 and over as the former Soviet region of Central Asia re...

HERAT/KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents on Wednesday reached the entry points to the capital of Afghanistan's northwestern Badghis province, officials said, causing panic among local people and pro...

By Francesca Landini and Stephen Jewkes MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Atlantia considers its 16% stake in German builder Hochtief non-strategic and may sell it in the future as it gears up to rejig its in...

(Reuters) - Australia's Myer Holdings Ltd said on Wednesday it was open to discussing board representation with its largest investor, billionaire Solomon Lew, after he raised his stake in the high-str...

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission revised upward on Wednesday its estimates for euro zone growth this year and next, but warned against risks posed by new variants of...