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BEIJING, Aug 7 - Multiple districts in Beijing issued heavy rainfall warnings on Friday evening with authorities warning residents of disasters including floods in the city centre and also mudslides a...

By Holger Hansen BERLIN, Aug 7 (Reuters) - A bus driver knocked an explosive-laden drone out of the air, potentially preventing an attack this week at a German airport that serves as a major NATO and ...

MANILA, Aug 7 (Reuters) - The Philippine foreign ministry said it did not condone threats of violence against foreign officials after five caskets containing anti-China messages were found abandoned i...

By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Within hours of a shooting rampage on the outskirts of Bangkok that left at least eight dead, Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Friday vowe...

By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Right-wing lawyer Abelardo De La Espriella is set to be sworn in as Colombia's new president on Friday after pledging a hard line on security, drug traff...

(Corrects ICRC statement in 3rd bullet point) BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo authorities released 15 prisoners and handed them over to rebels from...

By Joan Faus, Jaime Lopez and Zakia Abdennebi BARCELONA/CEUTA/RABAT, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Police and forensic scientists have drafted in extra staff to try to identify the bodies of 80 migrants found aft...

By Jarrett Renshaw and Ernest Scheyder WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will convene executives from some of the world's largest mining companies at the State Department on Fr...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Astronomers have taken the rare opportunity to observe the explosive death of an enormous star from start to finish, gaining a new understanding of how thi...

(Refiles to remove extraneous words from headline) By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Bangladeshi cricket great Shakib Al Hasan, an ally of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said he is ...