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By Fanny Potkin, Eduardo Baptista and Tony Munroe SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) – Even as China bars 1.4 billion citizens from Twitter, its local authorities are splurging on global advertising on the site, helping make the country the platform’s fastest…

By Tom Balmforth ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on the West to speed up deliveries of weapons systems as Ukrainian troops move to consolidate control over a large swath of northeastern territory seized back …

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The daughter of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Monday called for “proper” medical care for her jailed father, three weeks into a 12-year sentence he is serving for corruption. Malaysia’s top court on Aug. 23 rej…

(Reuters) – Brazil presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva continues to poll ahead of President Jair Bolsonaro, extending his lead over the president to 15 percentage points, according to an IPEC poll published on Monday. The survey showed Lul…

By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt BOSTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden signed orders on Monday to push more government dollars to the U.S. biotechnology industry, as he promoted his initiative to create new treatments and cut the death rate from ca…

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s military leader Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba has taken over the defence portfolio in the West African nation struggling with an ongoing Islamist insurgency, a statement read on national television on Monday evening s…

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A rocket from Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin failed mid-flight shortly after liftoff on Monday, aborting its cargo capsule to safety before crashing into the Texas desert, according to the company and a liv…

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The 76-year-old Mexican drug lord Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo has been granted house arrest after three decades in jail by a district judge, prosecutors said on Monday. A legendary figure in the drug world and co-founder of the …

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian lawmakers on Monday elected a new head of Congress from an opposition party, after his predecessor was ousted over influence peddling allegations and amid tensions with left-wing President Pedro Castillo. Jose Williams, a form…

(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukrainian forces had retaken 6,000 square km. (2,400 square miles) of Russian-held territory since the beginning of the month. “Since the beginning of September and up to today, our fighters…