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(Reuters) - Thai activist lawyer, Arnon Nampa, jailed without bail since February on charges of insulting the country's powerful king, has contracted coronavirus in custody, a corrections department o...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police raided on Thursday the office of an anti-North Korea activist group that said it had released balloons into the North last week carrying dollar bill...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 21,953 to 3,473,503, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Thursday. The repo...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO (Reuters) - Emerging Asian countries must raise tax revenue and mobilise domestic financial resources as they brace for U.S. interest rate hikes that co...

(Reuters) - Jobs in the U.S. solar industry fell nearly 7% last year due to work restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic and large gains in labor efficiency, according to an industry report p...

BENGALURU (Reuters) - India reported on Thursday more than 400,000 coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by a record 3,980. The South Asian nation's tally has surged past 21...

By Mathieu Rosemain and Anna Irrera PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - French start-up Shift Technology, a developer of software to help insurers detect fraudsters, has closed a $220 million fundraising that br...

By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares rose on Thursday and commodity prices held near multi-year highs as investors switched to cyclicals amid hopes of a strong economic recovery, while the ...

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - SpaceX achieved the first successful touchdown of its prototype Starship rocket during the latest test flight of the next-generation launch vehicle in south Texas on Wednes...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong will face another 10 months in jail for participating in an unauthorised assembly on June 4, 2020, to commemorate the 1989 crackdown on p...