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Washington (AFP): President Donald Trump said Saturday he had approved a deal allowing Silicon Valley giant Oracle to become the data partner for TikTok to avert a shutdown of the …

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters set off on a march in Thailand’s capital Bangkok on Sunday, saying that they would present their demands in a letter for King Maha …

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil and Argentina, Latin American nations seeking more time to commit to the global COVID-19 vaccine facility known as COVAX, said they intend to so as soon …

OTTAWA – Former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner, who was in office for just 11 weeks and led his Liberal Party to a massive electoral defeat in 1984, died on …

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s most populous province is cracking down on private social gatherings as COVID-19 cases surge, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a surprise news conference called on …

(Reuters) – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a stalwart liberal on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1993, died on Friday at age 87, giving President Donald Trump a chance to expand …

(Reuters) – Iran’s coronavirus death toll has risen by 166 to 24,118, a health ministry spokeswoman told state TV on Saturday. The total number of identified cases spiked by 2,845 …

BERLIN (AP): A 48-year-old man in Germany avoided a lengthy jail sentence after he made a marriage proposal in court to the woman he was on trial for allegedly trying …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration says that on Saturday (2000 EDT/0000 GMT Sunday) all United Nations sanctions on Iran have to be restored and a conventional …

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is preparing to meet U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Tokyo early next month, the first high-level meeting between the two …

CASTRIES, St Lucia (Reuters) – An explosion of steam and gas in the mountains of the remote, jungle-clad Caribbean island of Dominica has shaken residents, who are fearful it is …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Friday he expects to have available enough doses of a coronavirus vaccine for every American by April. “Hundreds of millions of doses …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Belarus Foreign Ministry on Friday described as a “dangerous precedent” a resolution by the U.N. Human Rights Council calling for U.N. monitoring of alleged rights violations …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarusian opposition politician Maxim Znak declared a hunger strike in jail on Friday after being charged with calling for actions that could harm Belarusian national interests, the …

(Reuters) – President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, will both travel to the key Midwestern state of Minnesota on Friday, as early voting begins there ahead of …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reported 5,905 new coronavirus cases on Friday, pushing its tally to 1,091,186, the fourth largest in the world. Authorities said 134 people had died in the …

MUMBAI (Reuters) – India recorded 96,424 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, taking its tally to 5.2 million, data from the federal health ministry showed on Friday. India …

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. food chief David Beasley called on the world’s billionaires on Thursday to step up to help save some 30 million people he said are at …

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc on Thursday said it would update its internal discussion policies to impose restrictions on employees’ ability to debate social and political issues. A company spokesman said …

CAIRO (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s government delegation to the Afghan negotiations said on Thursday “we hope to reach a ceasefire,” the delegation spokesman told Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera TV. Talks between the Afghan …