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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - More than a quarter of lawmakers worldwide are women after the proportion inched higher in 2020, but progress is so slow that it will take 50 years at the present rate...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger police have seized a record 17 tonnes of cannabis resin worth around $37 million in a shipment originating in Lebanon and bound for Libya, the spokesman for the West African n...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Ukrainian public official Ihor Kolomoyskyy has been designated as ineligible to enter the United States over alleged corruption, the State Department said on Friday. "Whi...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday rounded out his White House staff with a host of new appointments focused on COVID-19, criminal justice, the economy and other major issues, i...

WARSAW (Reuters) - The British variant now accounts for 25% of the reported coronavirus cases in Poland, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Friday. Niedzielski also warned that next week the dai...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's production capacity of COVID-19 vaccines could be sufficient to supply enough doses for 40% of the population by mid-2021, the country's head of disease control authorities...

WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The United States' trade deficit increased in January as goods imports jumped to a record high amid a sharp rebound in consumer spending, offsetting a continued recovery in expor...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democrat Representative Eric Swalwell is suing former President Donald Trump, Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and others over the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when...

LONDON (Reuters) - Meghan, Britain's Duchess of Sussex, said she had given an in-depth interview to U.S. chat show host Oprah Winfrey to be aired on Sunday because she was now free speak for herself n...

LONDON (Reuters) - The estimated COVID-19 reproduction "R" number in Britain is 0.7-0.9, compared to 0.6-0.9 last week, and the epidemic is shrinking roughly as quickly as it was before, the health mi...