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By Tim Kelly and Irene Wang TOKYO (Reuters) - Military commanders from Japan, the United States, South Korea, the Philippines and fourteen other countries met in Tokyo this week for a gathering that W...

PARIS (Reuters) -McDonald's has agreed to pay around 1.245 billion euros ($1.29 billion) in fines and back taxes to settle a tax dispute in France, a judge said on Thursday. The case centered on alleg...

(Reuters) - The Russian rouble and stocks gained on Thursday, as the head of the central bank said the currency would remain free-floating and that capital controls should continue to be relaxed. At 0...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Rugby Australia Chairman Hamish McLennan said the country may pull its teams out of Super Rugby in 2024 and set up a domestic competition instead in the lead-up to hosting the 20...

ARTESA DE SEGRE, Spain (Reuters) - Three wildfires in Spain's Catalonia region reduced about 1,100 hectares (2,700 acres) of woods and bushes to ash, local firefighters said on Thursday, as a heat-wav...

By Joice Alves and Julien Ponthus LONDON (Reuters) - Switzerlad's franc and government bond yields soared on Thursday, after the Swiss National Bank took markets by surprise with a large interest rate...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court imprisoned pending trial 16 Kurdish journalists and media workers who were arrested after being detained last week accused of spreading terrorist propaganda, the M...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will inaugurate a task force on Thursday to curb online harassment, fulfilling one of the Biden campaign's promises in the wake of a mass shoot...

By Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) - Baye Dame Ndiaye expertly sifts through pungent heaps of rubbish dumped at the landfill where he grew up outside the Senegalese capital Dakar, setting plastic aside f...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Members of Swiss cooperative supermarket chain Migros have voted by a clear majority to uphold the ban on alcohol sales its health-conscious founder adopted when he set up the busin...