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TAIPEI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Taiwan's premier said on Monday he would not enact local government spending plans passed by the opposition-controlled parliament, saying they were fiscally unsound and that...

DUBAI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was taken to the hospital emergency room twice after suffering blows from security forces who arrested her on December 12, her fam...

DUBAI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, said they have launched a military operation in southern Abyan province. The STC has recently claimed broad ...

PARIS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The Paris Louvre museum did not open at 0800 GMT on Monday as usual as staff was meeting to discuss a strike over pay and working conditions, potentially disrupting access fo...

PRAGUE, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Czech President Petr Pavel appointed the government of new Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Monday, following an October election won by the billionaire leader's populist ANO ...

BEIJING, Dec 15 (Reuters) - China on Monday said it was strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposes the smears and slanders targeting Hong Kong's judicial system, referring to criticisms by other countri...

By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Like many people in Sydney, Glenn Nelson spent his Sunday evening watching television coverage of a deadly shooting on the city's iconic Bondi Beach. But ste...

BERLIN, Dec 15 - Germany will offer refuge to Maria Kalesnikava and Viktar Babaryka, two prominent Belarusian opposition leaders freed at the weekend after more than five years in prison, Interior Min...

BANGKOK, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Thailand is set to hold parliamentary elections on February 8, according to multiple local media reports on Monday, including public broadcaster Thai PBS, broadcaster PPTV ...

By John Geddie TOKYO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - With her health failing and an information vacuum around Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her son worries that he may not even know if she pa...