Society / Social Issues

By Laura Gottesdiener NAN KONSEY, Haiti (Reuters) - In a tent encampment in the mountains of southern Haiti, where hundreds...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday extended a lockdown in Auckland by two weeks, while...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore must stay open to preserve its status as a global business hub, its prime minister said...

By Tilman Blasshofer FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The last German civilian plane carrying Afghans fleeing Taliban rule landed in Frankfurt on...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Medical supplies will run out within days in Afghanistan, the World Health...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union on Friday moved to reinstate COVID travel restrictions like quarantine and testing requirements for unvaccinated...

By Lucien Libert PARIS (Reuters) - Hours before the Taliban took control of Kabul, filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat received an offer...

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. officials appealed for $800 million to fill a chronic funding gap for Afghanistan on Friday, with...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday pushed to next week a high-profile ruling on indigenous land rights, which...

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters demonstrated peacefully in Colombia on Thursday to urge its congress...

By Alexander Cornwell DOHA (Reuters) - A member of Afghanistan's all-female robotics team who has been flown to safety hopes...

By Eva Manez PENISCOLA, Spain (Reuters) - Firefighters in the Spanish coastal town of Peniscola found the body of a...

JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia (Reuters) - As the world scrambles to inoculate people against COVID-19, one store owner in Malaysia is...

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - The pro-democracy group that organises Hong Kong's annual June 4 rally to commemorate...

By Julia Symmes Cobb LA DORADA, Colombia (Reuters) - When her 17-year-old son Jose Andres was kidnapped by paramilitaries at...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will supply millions of additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to its states to try to inoculate...

GENEVA (Reuters) -China's envoy told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday that the U.S. army and the militaries of...

By Amanda Perobelli JOSE BOITEAUX, Brazil (Reuters) - Pushed into a degraded corner of their ancestral lands, the Xokleng people...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - At a factory in Sri Lanka's Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia city, workers use staples and glue to assemble long...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The benefits of China's zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19 continue to outweigh the costs but it should cut...