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By Emma Farge GENEVA, Aug 19 (Reuters) - A record number of humanitarian workers were attacked last year, driven partly by increased use of armed drones, the United Nations said on Wednesday, calling ...

Aug 19 (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed, including a child, in a fire at a hotel in India's eastern city of Kolkata on Wednesday, local police said. The fire broke out at around 2:50 a.m. ...

SINGAPORE, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed, data showed on Wednesday, as most shipowners avoided the key waterway because of a lack of clear signalling on its reopening...

HANOI, Aug 19 (Reuters) - A former Vietnamese politician unintentionally killed a teenager in a traffic accident in central Hanoi last year but was exempted from criminal prosecution, a police officer...

BEIJING, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Torrential rains lashed China's southwest to kill 10 in a house collapse and a landslide, state broadcaster CCTV said on Wednesday, with tens of thousands also evacuated as...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) - A former Department of Justice attorney has said the Trump administration's probes of U.S. universities over accusations of antisemitism lacked evidenc...

By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, Aug 19 (Reuters) - An Australian court on Wednesday began hearing the appeal of a woman convicted of murdering three of her estranged husband's relatives with a meal laced with...

Aug 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing aides for a meeting as soon as this fall with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing U.S. offici...

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Human-caused climate change was the main driver of recent record-breaking sea temperatures around Europe, scientists said on Wednesday, warning of severe co...

By Mariko Katsumura, Tom Bateman and Issei Kato NIKKO, Japan, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Long after sunset, Motoaki Iijima's illuminated greenhouse north of Tokyo glows like a lantern as the flower farmer har...