Society / Social Issues

By Martin Quin Pollard and Engen Tham BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The Chinese capital extended its work-from-home requirement for many of...

LONDON (Reuters) - Governments need to take urgent action to tackle rising inequality which emerged over the COVID-19 crisis with...

By Eduardo Baptista and Laura Lin BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai cautiously pushed ahead on Saturday with plans to restore part of...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Shanghai's central Jingan district, a key commercial area of the Chinese financial hub, said on Saturday it...

By Brenda Goh and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai announced its first new COVID-19 cases outside quarantined areas in...

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.N. Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet will visit China next week, the foreign ministry said on Friday,...

MADRID (Reuters) -Former Spanish King Juan Carlos is due to land in Spain on Thursday for his first visit since...

By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - They didn't sing together but U2 frontman Bono and Pope Francis were in harmony...

By Timour Azhari and Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) - When Halime El Kaakour enters Lebanon's parliament as a newly elected...

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have asked television broadcasters to ensure that female presenters...

By Thomas Suen and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - As restaurants in the Chinese capital drift in the doldrums of...

By David Stanway and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai achieved its long-awaited milestone of three consecutive days with no...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Mexico's southwestern state of Guerrero voted on Tuesday to allow abortions, making it the...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's leftist coalition government on Tuesday approved a draft bill to reinforce abortion rights and make Spain...

By Laila Bassam and Timour Azhari (Reuters) -Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies have lost their majority in Lebanon's parliament in...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Saudi ambassador to Lebanon took an apparent swipe at Hezbollah on Twitter on Tuesday after official...

(Reuters) - A Moscow court has fined U.S.-backed broadcaster Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe 10 million roubles ($153,459) for not deleting...

By Bernadette Christina and Heru Asprihanto JAKARTA (Reuters) -Hundreds of Indonesian smallholder farmers staged a protest on Tuesday in the...

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Queen Elizabeth, whose public engagements have been limited in recent months due to mobility issues, made a...

(Reuters) - Hezbollah and allies who support its armed presence have lost the parliamentary majority they held since 2018 in...