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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan hopes for progress on trade talks with the European Union next year when France takes over the bloc's presidency, and democracies must work together in the face of

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Greens met Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on Tuesday for talks to explore whether they and a smaller liberal party could form a new coalition government

WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand eased coronavirus curbs slightly on Monday in its largest city of Auckland, as the government expressed confidence that there was no widespread regional transmission

By Ghaida Ghantous and Aziz El Yaakoubi DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates is walking a diplomatic high wire between superpower ally Washington, new friend Israel and old adversary Iran as it

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine senator and boxing star Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao was voted out as leader of the country's ruling party on Saturday, weeks after challenging President Rodrigo Duterte

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian Zeyad Abu Odah watched with a smile as his four-storey house, destroyed in an Israeli air strike in last May's fierce fighting, was slowly being

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's capital on Monday extended COVID-19 restrictions for a further two weeks, as authorities launched a plan to test up to 1.5 million people for the coronavirus in higher-risk

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's high court will on Tuesday hear former president Jacob Zuma's request to appeal against a ruling that set aside his medical parole and said he should return to

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian leader Vladimir Putin got the green light from his upper house of parliament on Tuesday to deploy Russian military forces to two separatist-held regions of eastern Ukraine

By Charlotte Bruneau, Joanna Plucinska and Yara Abi Nader SULAIMANIYA, Iraq/HAJNOWKA, Poland (Reuters) - When Kamaran Mohammed travelled with his wife and three children to the Belarus capital Minsk