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PARIS (Reuters) - It would be an honour if Europe were to grant political asylum to Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya,...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Newly reported COVID-19 cases in Tokyo surged to a record high of 4,058 on Saturday, the metropolitan...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Michael Shields GENEVA (Reuters) - The world is at risk of losing hard-won gains in fighting...

GAROWE, Somalia (Reuters) - An explosive planted on a bus carrying soccer players in Somalia's port city of Kismayo killed...

By Mitch Phillips, Rozanna Latiff and Simon Evans TOKYO (Reuters) -Top-ranked Novak Djokovic had his dreams of tennis gold dashed...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong police said on Friday they had arrested a 40-year-old man for booing China's national anthem...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand said on Tuesday that the Australian rugby team has been granted an exemption to enter...

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber TOKYO (Reuters) - Artur Dalaloyan was hailed as a hero by his teammates on Monday for competing...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands on Monday said it would ease COVID-19 restrictions to allow travel to all European Union...

By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) -Millions of Japanese watched the Olympics opening ceremony and many are cheering on their athletes,...

(In third paragraph of July 23 story, deletes erroneous reference to Canadian flagbearers wearing rainbow badges in support of the...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike met on Sunday to discuss the Olympic Games...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China criticised NBC Universal for showing an "incomplete map" of the country in its broadcast of the...

By Cooper Inveen and Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) - Dangling from umber cliffs that tower over Africa's westernmost shoreline, a...

By Trevor Hunnicutt TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Jill Biden is leading her country's diplomatic delegation to the Tokyo...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The director of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been dismissed, organisers said on...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is preparing to negotiate directly with the chief executive of Pfizer as...

By Paresh Dave and Karolos Grohmann FUKUSHIMA/TOKYO (Reuters) -The Japanese women's softball team got the Tokyo 2020 Olympics off to...

By Karolos Grohmann TOKYO (Reuters) -The Tokyo Olympics should go ahead to demonstrate to the world what can be achieved...

By Joseph Campbell TSUCHIYU ONSEN MACHI, Japan (Reuters) - When it was announced that Tokyo would host the 2020 Olympics,...