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PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis sees no reason to resign over an ongoing European Commission audit into conflicts of interest related to the sprawling conglomerate Agrofert, Pravo newspaper quoted him on Wednesday as saying. FILE PHOTO: Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis speaks during a news conference following talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr

LONDON (Reuters) – From Haiti’s devastating earthquake to war in Syria, Reuters photographers have covered the biggest news stories of the decade, capturing images of armed conflict, natural disasters, the plight of migrants and the drama of sport. Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York City, New York, U.S., September 24, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he did not want to

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong on Sunday, ending a rare lull in violence, as residents took to the streets chanting “revolution of our time” and “liberate Hong Kong”. The protest in the busy shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui followed a march by

VALETTA (Reuters) – One of Malta’s wealthiest men, Yorgen Fenech, was charged in a Valletta court on Saturday with complicity to murder in the car bomb killing of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017. Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech, who was arrested in connection with an investigation into the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia,

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed “great satisfaction” over the latest test of a large multiple-rocket launcher, state media said on Friday, a launch that experts said showcased improving performance by the system and its crews. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversees a super-large multiple launch rocket system test in

DURRES, Albania (Reuters) – Search teams pulled the bodies of a mother, her two-year-old twins and seven-year-old son from the rubble of a house in the western Albanian town of Durres on Thursday, as the death toll from the country’s worst ever quake climbed to 46. European and Albanian search teams also pulled a dead

GENEVA (Reuters) – The exiled leader of China’s minority Muslim Uighurs is pressing countries to cut trade links with Beijing, saying the time for business as usual is over. FILE PHOTO: Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uighur Congress, attends an event concerning China ahead of the Human Rights Council review in Geneva, Switzerland, November

NGHE AN, Vietnam (Reuters) – With tears in their eyes and white roses in their hands, friends and relatives of the 39 Vietnamese people who were found dead in the back of a British truck last month sobbed as the first bodies to be repatriated arrived in rural Vietnam on Wednesday. Ambulances from Ha Tinh

FILE PHOTO: Argentina’s President-elect Alberto Fernandez speaks during a news conference after a meeting with Uruguay’s President Tabare Vazquez at the Presidential House in Montevideo, Uruguay November 14, 2019. REUTERS/Mariana Greif BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernandez said on Tuesday he plans to appoint moderate Peronist economist Marco Lavagna to head the government’s

TIRANA (Reuters) – At least six people have died after the most powerful earthquake to hit Albania in decades rocked the capital of Tirana and surrounding region early on Tuesday, causing several buildings to collapse and burying residents in the rubble. The 6.4 magnitude quake struck shortly before 4 a.m. local time (0300 GMT), the

FILE PHOTO: Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori and leader of the opposition in Peru attends court as part of an investigation into money laundering, in Lima, Peru October 24, 2018. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s Constitutional Tribunal on Monday ordered the release of opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, jailed last year for

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Classified Chinese government documents made public by an international group of journalists describe the repressive inner workings of detention camps in Xinjiang, in a second rare leak in days of secret files concerning the troubled western region. FILE PHOTO: The Chinese national flag flies outside the mosque at the Xinjiang International Grand

Incumbent candidate Klaus Iohannis casts his ballot in the second round of a presidential election, in Bucharest, Romania, November 24, 2019. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s centrist President Klaus Iohannis easily won a presidential runoff vote on Sunday as expected, crushing his socialist challenger on a pledge to restart a judicial

BISSAU (Reuters) – Guinea Bissau holds a presidential election on Sunday that voters hope will bring change to the coup-prone nation after weeks of political chaos that sparked violent protests and deadlocked parliament. Supporters of presidential candidate Umaro Sissoko Embalo gather outside his campaign headquarters, ahead of Sunday’s presidential election in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau November 22,

EL ALTO/LA PAZ (Reuters) – Anti-government demonstrators in Bolivia lifted road blockades ahead of talks with interim President Jeanine Anez on Saturday aimed at ending weeks of unrest, as Congress moved toward passing a bill to pave the way for new elections. People line up to get a gas cylinder near petrol plant of Senkata,