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By Lisa Barrington and Jonathan Saul DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) -Iranian-backed forces are believed to have seized an oil tanker in the Gulf off the coast of the United Arab Emirates,...

By Tim Reid LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Facing a devastating report that found he sexually harassed multiple women, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released a video on Tuesday denying...

By Doyinsola Oladipo and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Tuesday the launch of a "strategic dialogue" with Indonesia,...

(Reuters) - Governor Andrew Cuomo, accused of sexually harassing multiple women in a New York attorney general's report issued on Tuesday, has had a U.S. political career spanning...

By David Thomas (Reuters) - For her five-month probe of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, state Attorney General Letitia James tapped a former top federal prosecutor at one of...

By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Taliban and the Kabul government are far apart in U.S.-backed talks on bringing peace to Afghanistan, with the insurgents demanding...

By Natalia Zinets and Margaryta Chornokondratenko KYIV (Reuters) -A Belarusian activist living in exile in Ukraine was found hanged in a park near his home in Kyiv early on...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea wants international sanctions banning its metal exports and imports of refined fuel and other necessities lifted before it restarts...

KABUL (Reuters) -A car bomb blast followed by sporadic gunfire hit Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Tuesday near the heavily fortified "Green Zone", leaving three civilians and...

(Reuters) - Here are six takeaways from an investigation launched by New York Attorney General Letitia James that concluded Governor Andrew Cuomo broke federal and state laws by...

By Ilya Zhegulev and Margaryta Chornokondratenko KYIV (Reuters) - Vitaly Shishov, an exiled Belarusian activist who was found hanged in a park in Kyiv in what police say could...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -A report released by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday concluded there was strong evidence to suggest some Lebanese officials knew about and tacitly accepted the...

By Steve Keating and Mitch Phillips TOKYO (Reuters) -Simone Biles retook the gymnastics stage on Tuesday after a week's absence, electrifying the Tokyo Olympics on a day that saw...

By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) -In the year since making an unprecedented, taboo-breaking speech openly calling for discussion on the role of...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran's hardline incoming president Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday he would take steps to lift "tyrannical" sanctions imposed by the United States,...

By Omar Mohammed TOKYO (Reuters) - For the first time since 2008, the 200 metres will be without triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica and a new generation of sprinters...

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) -A Belarusian athlete who took refuge in the Polish embassy in Tokyo after refusing her team's orders to fly...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Monday no decision has yet been made on its joint military exercises with the United States but they should not create...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran will respond promptly to any threat against its security, the foreign ministry said on Monday, after the United States, Israel and Britain...

By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - The United States doubled down on its tough stance and sanctions on Cuba after historic protests in the Communist-run island last month and said...

By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany on Monday sent a warship to the South China Sea for the first time in almost two decades, joining other Western nations in expanding...

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) - At least 30 corpses have washed up on the Sudanese banks of a river that abuts Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray,...

(Corrects Aug. 1 story in paragraph 2 to show Ocean Viking not French but run by a European NGO, and rescue took place in international not Tunisian waters) ABOARD SEA-WATCH 3,...

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, Steve Keating and Mitch Phillips TOKYO (Reuters) -Three women dominated the focus at the Olympics on Monday - U.S. gymnast Simone Biles, Belarus...

By Yara Abi Nader and Imad Creidi BEIRUT (Reuters) - For Beirut blast survivor Shady Rizk, time has stopped since Aug. 4 last year when a huge stockpile of ammonium nitrate...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The death toll from wildfires on Turkey's southern coast rose to eight on Sunday as firefighters battled for a fifth day to contain blazes still raging in...

By Maha El Dahan and Imad Creidi BEIRUT (Reuters) - Tatiana Hasrouty had always felt safe in her home, a few kilometers away from Beirut port where her father had worked for...

By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee is looking into the gesture U.S. athlete Raven (NASDAQ:RAVN) Saunders made after the shot put silver...

By Renju Jose and Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's Queensland state on Monday extended a COVID-19 lockdown in Brisbane, while soldiers began patrolling Sydney to...

(Reuters) - 1/ OUT OF SURPRISES? Is this year's sharp U.S. growth rebound losing momentum? A raft of economic data due in the world's biggest economy will provide clues. U.S....

By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) - Government supporters rallied in several Brazilian cities on Sunday to call for changes in the country's electronic voting system, which...

By Ted Hesson, Jonathan Landay and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration will launch a new program to resettle certain Afghans as refugees in...

By Diego Oré and Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexicans voted on Sunday on whether to investigate five former leaders in a referendum championed by President Andres Manuel...

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber TOKYO (Reuters) -A Belarusian sprinter refused to get on a flight from Tokyo on Sunday after being taken to the airport against her wishes by her team...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Tokyo Games organisers said they are investigating after a group of athletes were found drinking alcohol in the Olympic village this week, violating measures to...