Category: World News

By Rocky Swift and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – A woman has died from the coronavirus in Japan, the first such death in the country since the epidemic spread from … Read More

By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sacked the minister who helped end three years of political paralysis in Northern Ireland, prompting criticism on Thursday … Read More

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court fined social media company Facebook 4 million roubles ($62,922) on Thursday for its failure to comply with a Russian data law, the RIA news … Read More

By Se Young Lee and David Stanway BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The new Communist Party chief of Hubei province, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in China, said on Thursday he … Read More

By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s parliament passed a law on Thursday imposing jail terms for people whose internet posts stir unrest, a move the government says is … Read More

By Hyun Young Yi and Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) – From the houses to the noodles, South Korea’s Oscar winning movie “Parasite” tells its story of a suffocating class struggle … Read More

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s government has submitted to parliament a bill that proposes changes in 80 laws ranging from politically sensitive labor regulations to rules on mining, as President Joko … Read More

By Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus has teamed up with the Quebec government to buy Bombardier’s 33.5% stake in the A220 passenger jet program, completing the Canadian firm’s exit … Read More

(Reuters) – China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd <BABA.N> reported a better-than-expected quarterly revenue on Thursday, as its core e-commerce and cloud computing businesses posted steady growth. Revenue rose to 161.46 … Read More

By James Oliphant and Trevor Hunnicutt NASHUA, New Hampshire – Joe Biden’s campaign held a victory party in a New Hampshire hotel ballroom on Tuesday evening. But there was no … Read More