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PESHAWAR, Pakistan/KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan Taliban leaders said on Thursday that their new political chief will not be attending peace talks with U.S. envoys due to take place in Qatar [...]

An international rights group on Thursday accused Congolese police of summarily executing at least 27 people, some of whom were bound, strangled and mutilated in a crackdown on gangs in [...]

Vietnamese police have stepped up security at a remote rail station on the Chinese border where North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is expected to enter the country by train [...]

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Riot police clashed with pro-independence Catalan protesters in Barcelona on Thursday while other activists burned tyres and tried to block highways across northeast Spain as part [...]

With eight days left in their trade truce, top US and Chinese officials on Thursday returned to the daunting task of bridging a chasm between the world's two largest economies. [...]

Feb 21 (Reuters) - China Oil Gangran Energy Group Holdings Ltd: * ANNOUNCES PLACING OF 67.7 MILLION NEW SHARES AT PLACING PRICE OF HK$0.257 PER PLACING SHARE Source text for [...]

Pope Francis on Thursday opened a landmark Vatican summit on fighting child sex abuse, calling for "concrete measures" and handing top Catholic bishops a roadmap to tackling paedophilia in the [...]

President Donald Trump said Thursday American firms should "step up their efforts" on 5G -- superfast fifth-generation wireless networks -- while suggesting he was not prepared to block foreign firms [...]

Feb 21 (Reuters) - Lam Soon Hong Kong Ltd: * DECLARED AN INTERIM DIVIDEND OF HK$0.14 PER SHARE * HY PROFIT FOR PERIOD HK$201.4 MILLION VERSUS HK$186.2 MILLION * HY [...]

Three activists overturned a statue of a Polish priest accused of sex abuse in the northern city of Gdansk early on Thursday, local police said. Video footage on social [...]

Feb 21 (Reuters) - Zheng LI Holdings Ltd: * PROPOSES THAT EACH OF EXISTING ISSUED AND UNISSUED SHARES BE SUBDIVIDED INTO FOUR SUBDIVIDED SHARES Source text for Eikon: Further company [...]

Activists blocked roads and rail lines in Catalonia on Thursday as a region-wide strike began against the trial of separatist leaders for their role in a failed 2017 secession attempt. [...]