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By Kissima Diagana NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has promised to accelerate investments to spur an energy and mining boom as he takes on six challengers in the J...

By Gloria Dickie (Reuters) - Wildfires above the Arctic Circle in June have unleashed carbon emissions that are the third highest for the time of year in two decades of monitoring, European scientists...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Two hardline candidates dropped out of Iran's presidential election on Thursday, a day ahead of the landmark vote, and called for unity among forces supporting the country's Islamic ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A fire broke out at Denmark's tax ministry on Thursday, with thick black smoke seen rising from the office building located in central Copenhagen. Danish police separately said ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland will procure two surveillance aircraft from U.S.-based Sierra Nevada Corp for 163 million euros ($174 million) to patrol its long eastern border with Russia, the Finnish B...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday began a new trial of Robert Gilman, a former U.S. Marine who is already serving a prison sentence for attacking a police officer while drunk, on four new charges,...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia is considering a possible downgrading of diplomatic relations with the West due to the deeper involvement of the United States and its allie...

By Mari Saito DOLYNA, Ukraine (Reuters) - In Dolyna, there used to be 500 residents. Today, there are only a handful. The picturesque village, near the border of Ukraine's Donetsk and Kharkiv regions,...

By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian activist who has campaigned for the rights of a sea-faring minority group was questioned by police under sedition laws on Thursday, a move that h...

CAIRO (Reuters) - There is a risk of famine in 14 areas across Sudan if the conflict between military factions escalates further, a global hunger monitor said on Thursday. The assessment means that fa...