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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, paused briefly as an earthquake rattled the capital Wellington on Friday...

(Reuters) - Barbados has elected its first-ever president to replace Britain's Queen Elizabeth as head of state in a decisive...

By Vladimir Soldatkin and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Western-backed military development...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Concert pianist Li Yundi, one of China's most famous musicians, has been detained in Beijing for prostitution...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday said Russia could not be forced to respect the European Parliament's decision to...

By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the world's longest-reigning monarch, decided on Wednesday to...

By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal paid tribute on Tuesday to former diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who defied...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court will consider a request next month to transfer former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, sentenced...

By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Peter Marki-Zay, the small-town mayor who will take on Prime Minister Viktor Orban in...

By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) - When Vaclav Havel nearly died of a ruptured intestine as Czech president in 1998,...

By Sarah Morland PARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute on Friday to the last surviving member of an...

By Maria Vasilyeva MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians will be able to retrace President Vladimir Putin's footsteps in his beloved Siberian...

By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Queen Elizabeth said she was irritated by world leaders who talk about climate change...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope John Paul I, who reigned for only 33 days in 1978, will be...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Charles says he shares the concerns of Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists that world...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian nationalists ransacked a makeshift memorial to slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow early on...

By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - Kim Jong Un caught the eye of international observers during a speech marking the...

By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -British police said on Monday they would be taking no further action after conducting a...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday designated the Bellingcat investigative news outlet a "foreign agent" along with nine people who...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police in Georgia detained four protesters on Friday outside a prison holding ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, local media...