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By Abhirami G, Rishika Sadam and Praveen Paramasivam July 7 (Reuters) - Mehr Khan, an Indian transgender woman, arrived for a routine hormone therapy appointment only to discover the crucial treatment had been suspended after a recent change in the la...

SEOUL, July 7 (Reuters) - A commentary carried by North Korean state media KCNA on Tuesday criticised Japan's military expansion, saying its ​overseas aggression was "not hypothetical but reality" and ‌citing Japanese plans to develop unmanned submarin...

July 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to tell Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he is prepared to allow the country to ​rejoin the F-35 stealth fighter program, the New ‌York Times reported on Monday, citing four senior a...

BEIJING, July 7 (Reuters) - Sixteen people remain buried in a mountainous county in China's western province ​of Gansu after a ‌landslide on Tuesday, according to state broadcaster CCTV. A total of 33 people were initially trapped, with 17 now "success...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY, July 7 (Reuters) - Australia and the Solomon Islands said on Tuesday they were stepping up bilateral ties, a day after China test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific in a move analysts say could intensify ...

MEXICO CITY, July 6 (Reuters) - A security operation in Mexico's Sinaloa state during the ​weekend left 10 ‌assailants dead and three others arrested after an explosive device attack on naval personnel carrying out flood-monitoring ‌work, ​Mexico's nav...

By Andrew Gray ANKARA, July 7 (Reuters) - NATO leaders plan to unveil arms deals worth tens of billions of dollars in Ankara on Tuesday to show they are heeding U.S. calls to spend more to defend Europe before joining President Donald Trump for a summi...

July 6 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired at least two missiles at commercial ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night, Axios reported, citing two U.S. officials. Two commercial ships suffered ​significant damage but had...

By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, July 7 (Reuters) - Australian police arrested a man on Tuesday after he allegedly scaled a 140-metre-high (460-foot) tower of a cantilever bridge ​in the city of Melbourne and painted ‌a giant cartoon bird on it. An Instagram ac...

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA, July 7 (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto on Tuesday, as the leaders of two of the world's most populous countries seek to ​finalise deals ranging fr...

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that a resolution to the more than four-year-old war in Ukraine is "getting closer than people realize" and that he will talk about Ukraine during talks in Turke...

By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS, July 7 (Reuters) - After months of uncertainty, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen will learn on Tuesday from a Paris appeal court whether an electoral ban for illicit party financing will prevent her running in next year...

OSLO, July 6 (Reuters) - Norway wants China to use its ties to the Russian leadership to help bring about a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine and improve Beijing's ​relations with Europe, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said ‌on Mo...

By Bo Erickson, Steve Holland and Elwely Elwelly WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States would either reach a deal ​with Iran or "finish the job," renewing his ‌threat of military action as Tehran projects...

CARACAS, July 6 (Reuters) - The death toll from Venezuela's twin earthquakes has risen to 3,535, authorities said on Monday, while nearly 18,000 people remain homeless more than a week after the disaster struck the capital and nearby coastal areas. Top...

July 6 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy lamented a shortage of arms ​to defend Ukraine ‌against Russian ballistic missiles on Monday and said it was "absurd" that production ‌could ​not meet ⁠demand to protect ⁠people. "It is simply absurd tha...

By Andrew Gray ANKARA, July 6 (Reuters) - The Netherlands will announce defence deals and plans worth more than €3 billion ($3.43 billion) at a NATO forum in Ankara on ​Tuesday that precedes a summit of the alliance's ‌political leaders, Dutch Defence ...

DAMASCUS, July 6 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Syria on Monday, Syria's state news agency reported, in the first visit to Damascus by a European Union head of state since ​rebels led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa toppled Bashar ...

LIMA, July 6 (Reuters) - Peruvian leftist presidential ​candidate Roberto ‌Sanchez conceded the election to conservative Keiko ‌Fujimori ​on ⁠Monday, days ⁠after electoral authorities declared her the winner. Sanchez ​and his party ⁠said on ⁠Monday in ...

By Dave Sherwood HAVANA, July 6 (Reuters) - Cuba's national electric grid collapsed on Monday at midday, ​the country's grid operator ‌said, leaving around 10 million people on the Caribbean island without power. Grid operator UNE said it was investiga...