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(Reuters) - Taliban insurgents control an estimated 65% of Afghan territory, after making rapid advances against local forces who are...

(Reuters) - Taliban insurgents have made rapid advances across Afghanistan in recent months as U.S. and other foreign forces withdraw....

By Andrea Januta (Reuters) - Scientists are finalizing a long-awaited U.N. report updating the scientific consensus on climate change and...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany goes to the polls in September in which outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives are pitted against...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD) are pitted against the ecologist Greens in national elections...

TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisian President Kais Saied on Sunday sacked the prime minister and froze the activities of the parliament, leading...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese businessman and former prime minister Najib Mikati secured enough votes in parliamentary consultations on Monday to...

(Reuters) -Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot dead when assassins armed with assault rifles stormed his private residence in the...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is demanding the European Union agree to rework the post-Brexit rules governing trade with Northern Ireland,...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - King Abdullah has moved swiftly to shore up his grip on Jordan in the...

(Adds WHO, EMA comments) (Reuters) - A growing number of countries are looking at switching to different COVID-19 vaccines for...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top domestic spymaster cautioned the population on Wednesday to treat the threat of spying from Russia...

(Reuters) - A sharp upturn in new coronavirus infections due to the highly contagious Delta variant and a slowdown in...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) -A Jordanian court on Monday sentenced a former royal confidant, Bassem Awadallah, and a minor...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Security Council members on Thursday backed African Union mediation efforts between Ethiopia,...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Ethiopia has been building a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile and has started holding back...

By Aftab Ahmed (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed new cabinet ministers for health, IT and oil...

(Reuters) -Following are reactions from world leaders and governments to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. UNITED NATIONS U.N....

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti became Latin America and the Caribbean's first independent state of the colonial era and the first...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada has been rocked by the disclosures of more than 1,000 unmarked graves at the sites of...