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By Maha El Dahan and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon's prime minister-designate Saad al-Hariri has presented a new cabinet proposal...

By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand is considering imposing limits on exports of locally manufactured AstraZeneca COVID-19...

By Chen Lin and Aradhana Aravindan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Guests began leaving a Genting Cruise Lines "cruise to nowhere" on Wednesday...

(Reuters) - Military-ruled Myanmar reported record numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths on Wednesday, as it suffers its most severe...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran said on Wednesday it could enrich uranium up to 90% purity -- weapons grade...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's government is seeking to increase scrutiny of livestream content on social media such as Facebook and...

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates opened its embassy in Israel on Wednesday, with Israel's president attending the...

TBILISI (Reuters) - Four television channels in Georgia went off the air on Wednesday in protest at the death of...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -An Armenian soldier was killed on Wednesday in an exchange of fire on the border between Armenia and...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed climate change in a phone call with the United States' climate change...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Wednesday called for an end to violence...

By James Pearson HANOI (Reuters) - The United States rejects China's "unlawful" maritime claims in the South China Sea and...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Nuclear strategic stability talks between Russia and the United States will take place in a week, the...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin's most senior Afghanistan official accused the Afghan government of hypocrisy on Wednesday and said it...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian cabinet ministers on Wednesday unanimously pledged their support for Muhyiddin Yassin to continue as prime...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines will ban travellers coming from Indonesia to prevent the spread of the highly contagious Delta...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea tightened social distancing rules across most of the country on Wednesday to...

(Reuters) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken emphasized the U.S. rejection of China's "unlawful maritime claims" in the South China...

(This story corrects spelling of Novavax in last paragraph) GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization's chief scientist has advised...

By Michael Martina and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday strengthened its warnings to businesses about...