KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents attacked an army outpost in Afghanistan’s southwestern Farah province killing at least seven soldiers, local officials said on Monday, as the country braces for violence after May 1, a previously…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union governments met on Tuesday to discuss progress on a COVID-19 certificate to help citizens travel more freely across the 27-nation bloc and open up summer tourism.While EU officials stress they…
By Julia Symmes CobbBOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian President Ivan Duque said on Sunday he would withdraw a proposed tax reform after sometimes violent protests and widespread lawmaker opposition, though he insisted a reform is still necessary…
HONGKONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong authorities said on Friday residents who have been fully vaccinated can spend a shorter time in quarantine if they have been exposed to a COVID-19 patient, after thousands of people…
By Michelle NicholsNEWYORK (Reuters) – More than 200 civil society groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, called on the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar to help…
The closure of Kara Tepe municipal camp marks the end of an era for refugee reception in Greece. Since 2015 it has been a safe haven for many vulnerable people on Lesbos, providing shelter and…
President Joe Biden's support for a temporary waiver on patents for COVID-19 vaccines has turned the global strategy for fighting the pandemic upside down. Last October very few in the European Parliament were in support…
Global energy-related carbon emissions are set to record their second-biggest annual increase ever in 2021, fuelled by coal consumption in Asia, the International Energy Agency's (IEA) forecasted.Energy-related CO2 emissions are to increase by 5 per…
Edwin Poots is the new leader of Northern Ireland's largest Unionist party, the DUP. He beat his rival Westminister leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, in a close contest after Arlene Foster stood down from the role…
Former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini has been ordered to stand trial for leaving a Spanish migrant rescue ship stranded at sea for more than two weeks in August 2019.At a court hearing in Sicily,…
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