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By Sabine Siebold and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Companies in the European Union can ban employees from wearing a headscarf...

By Rogan Ward and Siyabonga Sishi DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) -South Africa plans to deploy up to 25,000 soldiers in...

By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Days of riots and looting in South Africa have left more than 70 people...

By Caroline Pailliez FONTENAY-AUX-ROSES, France (Reuters) - Nursing home worker Sandra Barona is so vehemently against receiving a COVID-19 shot...

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

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

By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) - British Columbia on Thursday became the first Canadian province to sign on to Prime...

By Maha El Dahan and Imad Creidi BEIRUT (Reuters) - Sorbonne-educated Chryssoula Fayad spent nearly two decades teaching history and...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary will allow in temporary workers from non-EU states to alleviate a labour shortage and help the...

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada is planning to take in hundreds of vulnerable Afghan interpreters, embassy staff...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's closed borders have helped keep COVID-19 out of the Pacific nation, but...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England has asked its staff to work at least one day a week from...

By Stefanie Eschenbacher and Angela Ponce CARATA, Peru (Reuters) - Maxima Ccalla, 60, an indigenous Quechua woman, has spent her...

By Sarah Wu OTTAWA (Reuters) -Hong Kongers in Canada are banding together to help the latest wave of immigrants fleeing...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia will examine recruitment fees charged to workers and review its agreements with the home countries...

By Mei Mei Chu and Chayut Setboonsarng KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Malaysia's predominant human trafficking crime is forced labour, the...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Thursday requested a minimum wage hike of 20% from August, citing...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czechs will be required to undergo a COVID-19 test when they return from summer holidays abroad if...

By Jiraporn Kuhakan PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - As Thailand's government prepares to celebrate its reopening to foreign tourists this week,...

PARIS (Reuters) - Dozens of Extinction Rebellion protesters on Wednesday invaded a cement-making plant in Paris operated by construction giant...