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By David Stanway and Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Last week, Elizabeth Liu and her husband were excited about the...

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A taxiing plane returned to the gate at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday after...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police on Tuesday launched a probe after 50 kg (110 pounds) of suspected cocaine, estimated to...

WARSAW (Reuters) -Russia's ambassador to Poland was doused in a red substance on Monday by people protesting against the war...

By Amanda Ferguson and Clodagh Kilcoyne BELFAST (Reuters) -Irish nationalists in Belfast toasted Sinn Fein's historic election victory on Sunday...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Quanta Shanghai Manufacturing City would seem like an ideal site to implement China's "closed-loop" management system to...

By Clement Rossignol and Christian Levaux LEUVEN, Belgium (Reuters) - The world's largest brewer launched production of a popular Ukrainian...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Renowned British architect Norman Foster will help plan Ukraine's reconstruction from the devastation caused by Russia's invasion,...

By Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine volunteers are trying to bring a little cheer to children living...

ENCANTADO, Brazil (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro's famous Christ the Redeemer has competition. The small town of Encantado in southern...

By Monica Machicao LA PAZ (Reuters) - Inmates in Bolivia's overcrowded prisons are now able to reduce their jail time...

LONDON (Reuters) - The British army said on Tuesday it had launched an investigation after reports that a man who...

By Santiago Limachi and Marcelo Rochabrun SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia (Reuters) - On the otherworldly white salt flats of Bolivia's...

By Max Hunder (Reuters) - A number of Ukrainian cities plan to rename streets and squares associated with Russia under...

LONDON (Reuters) - The northern English city of York on Wednesday stripped Britain's Prince Andrew, who is the Duke of...

By Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey (Reuters) - Nuclear engineer Liudmyla Kozak was part-way through a 12-hour overnight shift at the defunct Chornobyl...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese woman believed to have been the world's oldest person has died aged 119, public broadcaster...

(Fixes spelling in first paragraph) By Henriette Chacar JERUSALEM (Reuters) - With processions, chants and ululations, thousands of Christian Palestinians...

By Henriette Chacar and Nisreen Salem JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A few steps from Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's national postal service Ukrposhta said it had been hit by a cyberattack on Friday after sales...