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Leading politicians on Sunday condemned protesters who stormed the steps of Germany's Reichstag parliament building, some of them holding farright flags, during mass marches against coronavirus curbs a day earlier.

Hurricaneforce winds toppled a tree Sunday during a storm in northern Italy, killing two children in a tent at a campground.

Authorities in eastern Germany have banned swimming in parts of the river Unstrut after claims that a crocodile was seen there.

On the March day that Italy recorded its single biggest jump in coronavirus fatalities, Pope Francis emerged from lockdown to offer an extraordinary prayer and plea to his flock to reassess their priorities, arguing the virus had proved they needed one an...

The data showed steady global growth as the disease's epicentre shifts again, with India taking centre stage from the United States and Latin America.

South Korea reported its 17th day of tripledigit rises in coronavirus infections on Sunday, as restrictions on onsite dining at restaurants, pubs and bakeries in the densely populated Seoul area take effect.

The main Syrian opposition called on major powers on Saturday to help clinch a nationwide ceasefire in coming months to pave the way for a political transition after nearly a decade of war.

A Katyusha rocket landed in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, causing damage to an empty building and no casualties, Iraqi police sources said on Saturday.

For Ricardo Moraes, a veteran photographer who for 11 years has documented for Reuters life in Rio de Janeiro's often dangerous cinderblock slums known as "favelas", work began at about 6 a.m. on Thursday, when he heard a radio report of a hostage situati...

Montenegrins go to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election that looks too close to call, with neither the longruling proWestern party nor a rival proRussian alliance tipped to win a majority of seats.

As people in western Louisiana continue to dig out from Hurricane Laura, residents of eastern Louisiana and Mississippi marked the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday.

The Trump administration has ended all election security briefings to Congress just weeks before Americans cast their ballots for president, raising concern among lawmakers about the public's right to know about foreign interference in the election.

In Brazil’s Pantanal, the vegetation compacted under the marshy flood water during the wet season dries out as ponds and lagoons evaporate, leaving flammable deposits underground that can continue to smolder long after visible flames die down.

Missing: Bostons raucous crowds and smiles for miles. Still there, sort of: Wellesley Colleges iconic scream tunnel and the thunderous cheers along the finish line on Boylston Street.

In the span of 48 hours, two Black men in U.S. cities hundreds of miles apart were shot by police in episodes that set off a national conversation about the need for officers to open fire on people walking away from them.

Refusing to give up, some north Mississippi residents are still urging an allwhite board of county officials to move a Confederate monument away from an old courthouse on the town square in Oxford.