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By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In a rundown old factory in Belgium, Holocaust survivor Simon Gronowski celebrated his upcoming...

KABUL (Reuters) - In a public park in the Afghan capital Kabul, Nor Agha Nori is one of hundreds of...

By Maha El Dahan and Alaa Kanaan BEIRUT (Reuters) - After spending three decades building up a real estate business...

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - A descendant of Russia's former imperial family married his Italian bride on Friday in the...

By Michaela Cabrera PARIS (Reuters) - French court artist Elisabeth de Pourquery stared intently into the eyes of the self-avowed...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German toymaker is producing a batch of commemorative teddy bears to mark the end of Angela...

By Vincent West BILBAO, Spain (Reuters) - Staring impassively out from the murky waters of Bilbao's River Nervion, the eerily...

LONDON (Reuters) -A river that runs through the Glastonbury Festival, the largest greenfield music festival in the world, is contaminated...

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife have filed a legal complaint after a Paris exhibition featured...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/conservative-laschet-struggles-momentum-german-leadership-race-2021-09-21 was ridiculed on social media for a misstep on election...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Pranksters posing as a delivery service won a contract from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Are we related?" U.S. President Joe Biden asked India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi when they met at...

By Abdirahman Hussein MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Dozens of Somalis posed for selfies and chattered excitedly in rows of red, plush...

By Raul Cortes MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's foreign ministry said on Thursday it had recovered valuable manuscripts from the...

ROME (Reuters) - All roads lead to Rome, or at least so it seems for wild boar. Sightings of boars...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Indigenous activists delivered a Jatoba tree to Norway's embassy in Brasilia on Tuesday, seeking "refugee" status for...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has on Twitter proclaimed himself "dictator" of the Central American country,...

(This Sept. 15 story corrects press release error by Guinness World Records on Olivier Rioux's nationality in paragraph 9) LONDON...

By Heru Asprihanto SUKOHARJO, Indonesia (Reuters) - At the height of Indonesia's deadly second wave of coronavirus infections, Agus Widanarko...

(Fixes typo in para 13) By Rupam Jain (Reuters) -The Taliban's abrupt return to power has left hundreds of Afghan...