Syria’s Assad wins 4th term with 95% of vote, in election the West calls...
May 28, 2021 BEIRUT (Reuters) -Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1% of the votes in an election that will...
Myanmar rebels bury more than 30 people killed in ‘barbaric’ attack
(Reuters) - A Myanmar insurgent group said it has buried the remains of more than 30 people who were killed and had their bodies set ablaze, as the U.N.
Nearing ‘end of the road’ to save Iran nuclear deal -France
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The door to resuscitating the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is open for now but "we are rapidly reaching the end of the road" to revive a pact that is being gutted by Iran's
Analysis-Red tape, political hurdles hinder Draghi’s drive to reform Italy
By Angelo Amante, Gavin Jones and Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Mario Draghi set an ambitious reform timeline to relaunch Italy's chronically sluggish economy after the COVID-19
Tightrope election may spell uncertain future for Japan’s new prime minister
By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could lose its majority in Sunday's general election, polls show, potentially turning new leader Fumio Kishida into
Three of seven New Zealand attack victims are in critical condition – PM
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Saturday that a total seven people were wounded in an attack by an Islamist militant in an Auckland shopping mall and three
China’s child-rearing costs far outstrip U.S., Japan -research
By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges
Iran says concern over its enriched uranium metal process is “unnecessary”
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's decision to produce uranium metal enriched to 20% purity is solely for peaceful purposes, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday, adding that Tehran will
Israeli students return to school amid surge in COVID-19 cases
By Rami Ayyub JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli pupils returned to school on Wednesday with mask requirements and mandatory COVID-19 testing aimed at stemming a surge in coronavirus cases that has
China finds second black box of crashed plane – state media
BEIJING (Reuters) -Recovery crews on Sunday found the second black box - the flight data recorder - from the wreckage of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed into a mountainside in