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By Tassilo Hummel and Benoit Van Overstraeten PARIS (Reuters) -France’s incumbent leader Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen are heading for an April 24 presidential election runoff, projections showed after first round voting on Sun…

(Reuters) – New York City Mayor Eric Adams tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday after waking up in the morning with a “raspy voice,” his only symptom, a spokesperson said. Adams will cancel all his public events for the remainder of the week and imme…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed two Palestinian women on Sunday after one ran towards troops and the other stabbed a soldier in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, Israeli security officials said. The bloodshed follows a string of …

By Asif Shahzad and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Opposition politician Shehbaz Sharif submitted his nomination to be Pakistan’s next prime minister to the legislature on Sunday, his party said, after incumbent Imran Khan lost a no-confidence v…

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with the United States late on Saturday after it raised concerns over China’s coronavirus control measures. The U.S. State Department said on Friday that non-emergency sta…

By Elizabeth Piper and Zohra Bensemra KYIV/BUZOVA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian forces pounded targets in eastern Ukraine with missiles and artillery on Sunday as Austria’s leader planned to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Washington pled…

By Sonali Paul and John Mair MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia will hold a general election on May 21, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday, triggering a campaign expected to be fought over cost-of-living pressures, climate change and quest…

By Moira Warburton and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he is endorsing celebrity surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is running as a Republican in a closely watched U.S. Senate contest in Pennsylvania. “Dr. Oz…

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas (Reuters) – A small group of protesters gathered Saturday outside a sheriff’s office in southwestern Texas where a 26-year-old woman was reportedly charged with murder after performing what they said was a “self-induced abortion….

By Syed Raza Hassan and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Shehbaz Sharif, the person most likely to be Pakistan’s next prime minister, is little known outside his home country but has a reputation domestically as an effective administrator …