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By Philip Pullella VALLETTA (Reuters) – Pope Francis had to use an elevator to board a plane taking him to Malta on Saturday, with Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni saying it was to “avoid unnecessary strain”. It was the first time in the pope’s 36 trips …

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said the move to remove him was an attempt at regime change backed by the United States. Khan is facing a vote to oust him on Sunday. Khan told a group of foreign journalists that, …

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Maksim Levin, a photographer and videographer who was working for a Ukrainian news website and was a long-time contributor to Reuters, was killed while covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He leaves behind his wife and four …

By Brenda Goh and Engen Tham SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her 2-1/2-year-old daughter to a Shanghai hospital with a fever on March 26. Three days later, Zhao was begging health authorities not t…

By James Mackenzie ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine said on Saturday its forces had seized back all areas around Kyiv, claiming complete control of the capital region for the first time since Russia launched the invasion. As Russian troops reg…

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Dinuka Liyanawatte COLOMBO (Reuters) – Shops opened in Sri Lanka’s capital city Colombo amid tight security on Saturday – the first day after a state of emergency was declared to tackle growing unrest amid an unprecedented econ…

By Doyinsola Oladipo and Nivedita Balu NEW YORK (Reuters) -Workers at an Amazon.com Inc warehouse in New York City voted to form the first union at the second-largest U.S. private employer, a victory that adds to recent grassroots successes by labor ac…

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – Former United States goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested in North Carolina on suspicion of driving while intoxicated on Thursday, a spokesperson for the police department said on Friday. Solo was arrested in a Wa…

By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Friday it was assisting Chinese investigators with the download of the cockpit voice recorder in Washington from an China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet as it…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An American and a U.S. resident have been freed from detention in Afghanistan, the State Department said on Friday, and one of the pair identified themselves as brothers who were engaged in humanitarian work when the Taliban arres…