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KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents detained veteran militia commander Mohammad Ismail Khan on Friday after they seized the western city of Herat, a provincial council member said. Khan, who has been...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency called on Afghanistan's neighbours to keep borders open as Taliban insurgent advances heightened the country's crisis. "An inability to seek safety...

By Alun John and Tom Westbrook HONG KONG (Reuters) - Poly Network, the cryptocurrency platform which lost $610 million in a hack earlier this week, confirmed on Friday it had offered the hacker or hac...

PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron will stay away from a United Nations conference on racism next month because of concerns about anti-Semitism, his office said on Friday. "Concerned by...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Pro-Beijing candidates are running uncontested for most seats in a Hong Kong election committee tasked with choosing the city's leader, with the pro-democracy camp almost absent,...

By Rupam Jain (Reuters) - As the Taliban sweeps across Afghanistan, there are signs the militant group is going back on a promise allowing women to work, according to interviews with female bank emplo...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee, convicted of bribery and embezzlement, has been released on parole. But he has two other trials to face - one in which he is accused of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Below are five events and themes likely to dominate global financial markets next week. 1/ READY, STEADY, GO New Zealand's central bank meets on Wednesday and looks set to become th...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's health minister said on Friday he would not recommend a relaxation of COVID-19 lockdown measures despite a downward trend in infections. He said the country of 60 ...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's business hub Ho Chi Minh City will extend its coronavirus restrictions to the end of August, state media reported on Friday, as new infections and deaths rise further in th...