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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Security Bureau said on Friday it has frozen assets belonging to jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, in the first use of seizure powers granted to authorities un...

PARIS (Reuters) - French world road race champion Julian Alaphilippe will skip the Olympic road race for personal reasons, he said on Friday. "After giving it a lot of thought, I have decided, after a...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymakers set the stage for a June 10 showdown over the future of their emergency bond purchases when they met in April but stopped short of discussing t...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Friday that a state of emergency was being extended to a broader area due to a rapid rise of coronavirus cases in those regions. But he...

MADRID (Reuters) - Hundreds of Caixabank employees protested in Valencia on Friday against the bank's plans to cut staff numbers by nearly a fifth in Spain, just as shareholders were due to vote on bo...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Copenhagen, Reykjavik and Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, from May 16 to May 20, the State Department said in a statement on Frid...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson expects an easing of Britain's COVID-19 lockdown to go ahead on Monday, his spokesman said, after concerns were raised over the spread of a coronavirus ...

NICOSIA (Reuters) - The top prosecutor in Cyprus has asked police to investigate possible criminal offences in the running of a cash-for-passports scheme after an official probe suggested thousands of...

(Reuters) - Biogen Inc's experimental gene therapy for a genetic retinal disease that leads to progressive vision loss did not meet the main goal of a mid-to-late stage study, the drugmaker said on Fr...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would respond to what he called Ukraine's 'cleansing' of the political space, a day after a Ukrainian court placed a prominent pr...