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By Humeyra Pamuk and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Thursday’s release of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in exchange for a convicted Russian arms dealer has resurfaced an old question: …

By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) -Pro-democracy Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced on Saturday to five years and nine months in prison for fraud, convicted …

By Mark Gleeson DOHA (Reuters) -Morocco’s extraordinary run in Qatar continued on Saturday as they claimed another massive scalp in beating Portugal 1-0 to become the first African and Arab …

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro broke his silence on Friday for the first time since his election defeat on Oct. 30 and spoke to supporters calling for a …

BERLIN (Reuters) -German authorities said they had ended a suspected hostage-taking in the eastern city of Dresden on Saturday by what appeared to be a psychologically confused man acting alone, …

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Nobel laureates congregated in the Swedish capital Stockholm on Saturday for the first fully in-person award ceremonies complete with a formal banquet since the COVID-19 pandemic that …

By Ryan Woo, Martin Quin Pollard and Josh Horwitz BEIJING (Reuters) -Judging by Friday’s quiet streets in China’s capital Beijing and the reluctance of some businesses to drop COVID curbs, …

By Kanishka Singh, Dan Whitcomb and Amy Tennery WASHINGTON/DOHA (Reuters) – Well-known U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl died suddenly on Friday after collapsing while covering a match at the World …

Biden’s EPA Prepares To Crack Down On Home Appliances Jack McEvoy on December 9, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new rules on Friday that would restrict the use …

Twitter’s Chief Censor Met Weekly With US Intelligence Officials While Trump Was In Office, Internal Comms Reveal John Hugh DeMastri on December 9, 2022 Editor’s note: This article has been …

Twitter Used ‘Vast Array Of Tools’ To Throttle Trump’s Account Even Before Jan. 6, Docs Reveal John Hugh DeMastri on December 9, 2022 Twitter deployed a “vast array of tools” …

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have rejected criticism of a documentary about their lives, with a statement from their spokesman saying that the couple had …

By Daisy Chung, Gloria Dickie and Simon Scarr (Reuters) – Ben Nyberg stood on a knife-edge ridge along Hawaii’s Na Pali Coast, his eyes scouring the leafy recesses of the …

By Maha El Dahan and Aziz El Yaakoubi RIYADH (Reuters) -President Xi Jinping told Gulf Arab leaders on Friday that China would work to buy oil and gas in yuan, …

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China said on Saturday it would stop checking truck drivers and ship crew transporting goods domestically for COVID-19, removing a key bottleneck from its supply chain network as …

By Martin Quin Pollard WUHAN (Reuters) -In the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak nearly three years ago and where thousands died, residents cautiously greeted a …

BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese foreign ministry said China and Germany had reached an agreement on providing “German vaccines” to German nationals in China, after the German Chancellor recently said …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department will appeal the dismissal of a lawsuit against casino magnate Steve Wynn, who it accused of acting as a Chinese …

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Friday said she was willing to discuss early elections with the country’s political and civil organizations, but ruled out kick-starting …

By Richard Cowan and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent, she said on Friday, just days …

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a bid by President Joe Biden’s administration to revive a federal law that makes it a …

(Reuters) – The white man who admitted to shooting dead 10 Black people at a western New York grocery store in May would consider pleading guilty to federal charges if …

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia is attempting to obtain more weapons from Iran, including hundreds of ballistic missiles, and offering Tehran an unprecedented level of military and …

By Daren Butler and Can Sezer ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey emerged as a critical stumbling block to a complex international plan to deprive Russia of wartime oil revenues as the number …

(Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Nigerian authorities to investigate allegations of systemic and coerced abortions reportedly perpetrated by the Nigerian army, U.N spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Friday. …