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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - About 21.5% of India's 1.35 billion people may have been infected with COVID-19, according to a government serological survey of more than 35,500 people released on Thursday. Amo...

By Clement Rossignol and Robin Emmott ANTWERP, Belgium (Reuters) - An Iranian diplomat accused of planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled opposition group was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursd...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Some 16 African countries have shown interest in securing COVID-19 vaccines under an African Union (AU) initiative and the aim is to deliver allocations in the next three weeks, th...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday rejected allegations of Russian state repression against opposition politician Alexei Navalny's supporters and said police had made mass detentions because p...

By Thyagaraju Adinarayan LONDON (Reuters) - Cryptocurrency Dogecoin surged more than 50% on Thursday after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted his support for it, two days after he said he was ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Biden administration views the New Start Treaty clinched with Russia this week as the beginning of engagement on strategic issues including multilateral arms control, the U.S. e...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will import the first doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine from Asia after Europe enforced export controls, the country's health minister said on Thursday. The European Union (E...

By Sanjeev Miglani and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Wading into a sensitive issue for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the U.S. embassy in New Delhi on Thursday urged his government to re...

(Reuters) - Bangladesh's Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd said on Thursday the Serum Institute of India (SII) had delayed the first supplies of a COVID-19 vaccine for private sale, instead prioritising gov...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's government said on Thursday it expects to complete its COVID-19 immunisation programme by February next year, covering 80% of its population of about 32 million peo...