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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will chair an informal meeting of leaders from countries in the...

LONDON (Reuters) - The UK government is confident that plans to lift a range of COVID-19 restrictions will go ahead...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia recorded around 428,000 excess deaths from April 2020 to May this year during the coronavirus pandemic,...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, floated in the past as a potential future prime minister, told a news...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The European Union has proposed to Russia that they discuss the potential joint recognition of their COVID-19...

PARIS (Reuters) - Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel has left hospital after receiving treatment for COVID-19, the Luxembourg government said...

LONDON (Reuters) - A mass rapid-testing scheme reduced COVID-19 cases in the English city of Liverpool by more than a...

GUNTUR, India (Reuters) - The grandfather of an Indian-American astronaut said he was "overwhelmed with joy" as she prepares to...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is in talks with mRNA vaccine makers including Pfizer and Moderna to...

By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - When Mexican Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell left the presidential palace on June...

LONDON (Reuters) -The wearing of face coverings in England will become a personal choice and the data that will determine...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -Thousands of South Korean workers staged a rally in downtown Seoul to demand better conditions,...

By Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Sumit Khanna MUMBAI/AHMEDABAD (Reuters) -India's official death toll from the coronavirus topped 400,000 on Friday, though...

By Hyonhee Shin and Swati Pandey SEOUL/SYDNEY (Reuters) - The highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus is surging through...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has reported 50,824 new cases of the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant of concern in the...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin told Russians on Wednesday to get vaccinated against COVID-19 amid a wave of cases, and...

LONDON (Reuters) - British education minister Gavin Williamson on Wednesday said he expects to be able to end the restrictions...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is ready to take anti-coronavirus measures, such as issuing a state of emergency, in a timely...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's capital Seoul and its neighbouring regions will delay by a week the...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's king on Wednesday asked for a special parliamentary sitting to be convened before Aug. 1,...