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YANGON, Myanmar — Police in Myanmar broke up demonstrations in several places with tear gas and gunfire on Thursday as protesters took to the streets again, undeterred by the rising...

Europe’s drug regulator launched a review of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, putting it on course to be the first non-Western jab used across the 27-nation EU. Russia...

Saudi Aramco, whose oil production and export facilities are mostly in Saudi Arabia‘s Eastern Province, more than 1,000 km (620 miles) across the country from Jeddah, did not immediately respond...

Iris Catholique has lived for 30 years in what is now the Thaidene Nëné Indigenous Protected Area. Straddling the tree line between the boreal forest and the tundra, this swath...

A survivor of a plane crash that killed dozens of Brazilian soccer players five years ago avoided death for a second time this week when he crawled from the wreckage...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Civilians massacred. Journalists arrested. People starving to death. Ethiopia’s government is under growing pressure to allow the world to see firsthand what has occurred in its embattled...

On 20 March 2019, Thierry Baudet provided Dutch television viewers with two surprises. The first was news of his landslide victory in that day’s senate elections. Baudet’s far-right Forum for...

SEOUL — The death of South Korea’s first known transgender soldier, who was discharged last year for undergoing gender reassignment surgery, has sparked calls from advocacy groups and activists for...

Amazon has opened its first cashierless store outside of the US with a new Amazon Fresh location in London, UK. The store uses the company’s Just Walk Out technology, which...

Hong Kong has been removed from an annual index of the world’s freest economies because the think-tank that compiles the league table said the city was now directly controlled by...