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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Ningbo airport has suspended inbound and outbound flights to the capital Beijing from August 11 due...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian marine rescuers were working on Thursday to free a humpback whale entangled in a shark net...

TOKYO (Reuters) -A Panamanian-registered ship ran aground in a northern Japan harbour, then split in two and was leaking oil,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Wednesday said it is working to forge an international consensus behind the...

By Tom Balmforth and Anton Zverev MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian authorities announced a new criminal charge against Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and his U.S. counterpart Lloyd Austin discussed strategic stability consultations as well...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Belarus has told the United States to reduce its embassy staff in Minsk and revoked its consent to...

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) -Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a Chinese court's sentencing of Canadian businessman Michael...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Japan's foreign ministers discussed plans for joint economic activity on the Russian-held southern Kuril islands...

LONDON (Reuters) - British police confirmed that a British national who was arrested by German authorities had been held on...

By Sangmi Cha and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea on Wednesday said South Korea and the United States missed...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Canada's ambassador to China said he was disappointed after a Chinese court sentenced Canadian businessman Michael Spavor...

(Corrects year Spavor was charged to 2019 from 'last year' in paragraph 11) By Yew Lun Tian and David Ljunggren...

By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea did not answer routine calls on inter-Korean hotlines on Tuesday,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is evaluating the threat environment around its embassy in Kabul on a daily basis,...

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - The Canadian ambassador to China on Tuesday condemned a Chinese court's ruling that...

By Brenda Goh and Sophie Yu SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Extensive coverage in China of sexual assault scandals involving tech giant...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden held talks over the phone on Tuesday...

By Natalia Zinets, William James and Elizabeth Piper KYIV/LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A defiant President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday a Belarusian...

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia extended its COVID-19 curbs on populous Java and Bali islands until Aug. 16, but...