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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Secretary of Security John Lee and police chief Chris Tang, key figures behind the city's authoritarian turn over the past year, are expected to be promoted "very soo...

By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) - World number one Ash Barty is favourite to win her first Wimbledon title next week but will need to overcome a lack of match practice on grass and a worrying string...

By Rory Carroll (Reuters) - Opportunity knocks for Serena Williams on the grass courts of Wimbledon next week when she faces a diminished field on her best surface at the famous All England Club. Will...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand said on Friday that it plans to strengthen its hate speech laws, and increase penalties for inciting hatred and discrimination, in response to the attack by a white ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported 24 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Thursday, compared with 16 a day earlier, the health authority said. All of the new infections were imported cases, the ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday said Brazil never paid for or received any doses of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Indian company Bharat Biotech, in response to allegatio...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Downtown Sydney and the city's eastern suburbs, which include Bondi Beach, will go into a one week lockdown from midnight Friday as authorities struggle to contain a spike in the hig...

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar held near multi-month highs on Friday as investors warily awaited U.S. inflation data, while the pound nursed modest losses after Bank of England...

By Marine Strauss, Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders failed to agree on a proposal by France and Germany to hold a summit soon with Russian President Vladimir...

By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two leading U.S. senators have called on President Joe Biden to use powers under a bill they authored to impose sanctions on those responsible for forcing th...