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CAIRO (Reuters) – Libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj said on Wednesday talk about resuming peace negotiations has been overtaken by events on the ground amid ongoing shelling from … Read More

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that the main opposition party should be investigated for possible links to the U.S.-based cleric accused of orchestrating a 2016 … Read More

BEIJING (Reuters) – Efforts to prevent and control the coronavirus in China’s Hubei province have made progress but the situation remains severe, Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan said on Wednesday, … Read More

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese infectious disease specialist has castigated his government’s handling of quarantine on a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship, saying it was run by “bureaucrats” who … Read More

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia has never ruled out the possibility that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could have been downed by a suicidal pilot, the country’s former prime minister … Read More

By Tom Allard JAKARTA (Reuters) – Myanmar is set to be placed on a watchlist by a global finance watchdog this week, amid concerns of money-laundering by transnational drug traffickers … Read More

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) – British television presenter Caroline Flack, a former host of the hit show “Love Island”, was found hanged in her London home and paramedics were … Read More

By Khalil Ashawi AZAZ, Syria (Reuters) – Last month Hussam Shamo, a baker in northern Syria, stopped selling his bread in Syrian pounds after the latest slump in the currency … Read More

By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump came under fire on Tuesday for commuting the sentence of Rod Blagojevich, the ex-Illinois governor convicted of … Read More

By Alexey Malgavko OMSK, Russia (Reuters) – Like many of Siberia’s homeless, Alexei Vergunov survives freezing night-time temperatures of -30 degrees Celsius by sleeping under an industrial heating pipe for … Read More