BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand on Sunday reported 1,940 new coronavirus cases amid a deadly third wave of the virus.The Health Ministry recorded a second day of 21 deaths, the highest daily number of fatalities since…
Chloe Zhao's "Nomadland," a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao also became just the second woman…
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish authorities forcibly removed followers of an Islamist figure from three mosques in southern Turkey, saying their prayer gatherings were a provocation against COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.Footage showed police scuffling with a group…
A coroner in Northern Ireland has ruled that the British army used "clearly disproportionate" force during violence nearly 50 years ago in which ten civilians were shot dead.At a hearing into the deaths in Ballymurphy,…
New, more ambitious targets are setting Germany on course to a greener future - including cutting emissions by 65%, up from 55%, from 1990 levels by the end of this decade.A roadmap approved by Chancellor…
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen have killed 16 soldiers and wounded six others in an ambush in southwest Niger, two security sources said on Sunday. The attack on an army patrol occurred on Saturday afternoon…
Brazil's health regulatory agency (Anvisa) on Monday opposed the use of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine citing insufficient data."Due to the lack of consistent and reliable data, Anvisa's Board of directors unanimously decided not to…
BERLIN (Reuters) -The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic appears to be broken, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday, as social distancing measures and an accelerating vaccination campaign help lower the infection rate.“The…
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Turkey to pay €16,000 to veteran journalist Ahmet Altan, who it ruled was unreasonably convicted on terrorism charges.The 71-year-old founder of liberal newspaper Taraf, and author…
Walter Mondale, the US vice president under Jimmy Carter between 1977 and 1981, died Monday. He was 93.The death of the former senator, ambassador and Minnesota attorney general was announced in a statement from his…
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