Society / Social Issues

By David Stanway and Roxanne Liu SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai took more gradual steps on Friday towards lifting its COVID-19 lockdown...

MONTREAL (Reuters) -Backers of Quebec's sweeping new law to promote French usage in the Canadian province hail it as the...

By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Anti-abuse activists on Friday demonstrated near the Vatican embassy to Italy to demand action...

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Books about the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his brutal era of martial...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The risk of going hungry in Brazil is higher than ever, as the percentage of people...

By Chris Helgren TORONTO (Reuters) -Toronto police shot and killed a man who was walking down a street carrying a...

MADRID (Reuters) -Spain's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a bill that qualifies all non-consensual sex as rape in...

By Ryan Woo and Stella Qiu BEIJING (Reuters) -Pandemic-hit Shanghai, China's financial hub, unveiled more post-lockdown plans on Thursday as...

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) - Just two weeks in office, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol faces clouds over his...

By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's parliament on Thursday voted to accept a draft bill legalizing same-sex civil partnerships...

By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - British heir to the throne Prince Charles was "just one of the boys" when...

LONDON (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin ordered 10% rises on Wednesday in pensions and the minimum wage to cushion Russians from...

By Suchitra Mohanty and Fayaz Bukhari NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) - An Indian court on Wednesday ordered life in jail for...

By Yew Lun Tian and Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on Wednesday via video link with...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -At least 21 people were shot dead in a slum on the north side of Rio...

KYIV (Reuters) - The Orthodox Church of Ukraine is seeking permission from the government to take over a building on...

By Eliana Raszewski BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine peso bills, devalued by years of inflation now soaring near 60%, are...

By Ryan Woo and Engen Tham BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Beijing stepped up quarantine efforts to end its month-old COVID outbreak as...

(Reuters) - Like many Russians, Andrei had planned to spend his summer holiday on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. But this July,...

By Marcelo Rochabrun SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia (Reuters) - On Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, a vast white salt flat that...