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ROME (Reuters) - Italian police have protested to the interior ministry after being sent pink health masks to wear on...

By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis, a lover of classical music, slipped out of the Vatican on Tuesday...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's landmine-sniffing rat Magawa, who found more than 100 landmines and explosives during a five-year career,...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ambassador to China, Javid Ahmad Qaem, left his post earlier in January after months without pay...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Ten Hong Kong government officials, including the heads of home affairs and immigration, were among more...

By Corina Pons MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will consider a pet's welfare when couples divorce or break-up from Wednesday in...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Hackers on Tuesday interrupted a video briefing by lawyers for relatives of those who died when Iran...

By Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) -A Paraguayan military officer died after being attacked by a deer that ran an antler...

By Sayed Ramin BAMIYAN, Afghanistan(Reuters) - The winter landscape around the deep, blue mountain lakes of Band-e-Amir in the central...

By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian tax officials have seized more than $30 million in cash and gold...

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Undaunted by pandemics, supply-chain woes and labor shortages plaguing Earth-bound commerce, Santa Claus was...

BERLIN (Reuters) - For Franziska Hilberath, whose home in western Germany's Ahr valley was destroyed by flash floods this summer,...

By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - The two starving cheetah cubs squeak and tug at their string leashes in the...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities have seized crystal methamphetamine with a street value of almost $30 million stuffed inside boxing...

By Guillermo Martinez and Vincent West MADRID (Reuters) - Lucky lottery players popped champagne corks across Spain on Wednesday afternoon...

(Reuters) - Chinese provincial authorities have ordered celebrities and livestreamers to report tax-related crimes before 2022, just days after China's...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Santa Claus strode into the Brazil's City of God favela this week, delivering much-needed Christmas...

MADRID (Reuters) - Thousands of people dressed as Santa Claus took part in a charity run through Madrid on Sunday...

By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) - Nurses wearing reindeer antler headbands danced to festive music and Santa...

By Carlos Valdez and Gerardo Gomez LIMA (Reuters) - Sometimes Santa doesn't need a sled and reindeer. In Peru Santa...