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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - PayPal Holding Inc has become the first foreign operator with 100% control of a payment platform in China, according to Chinese government data, as the U.S. fintech giant eyes a b...

(Reuters) - China reported its biggest daily jump in new COVID-19 cases in more than 10 months, as the World Health Organization's team of scientists arrived in the country's central city of Wuhan to ...

(Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: WHO team arrives in Wuhan A global team of scientists led by the World Health Organization arrived in China's central city of ...

(Reuters) - Former 2020 U.S. presidential contender Andrew Yang on Wednesday said he will run for mayor of New York City as a Democrat in this year's elections. Yang built an ardent grassroots followi...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's top court upheld on Thursday a 20-year jail sentence for former President Park Geun-hye on graft charges that led to her downfall, bringing an end to the ...

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States stands by Taiwan and always will, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft said on Wednesday following a call with Taiwan Presid...

By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices eased for a second day on Thursday as mounting coronavirus cases globally raised demand concerns, although a drawdown in U.S. crude stocks for a ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Tennys Sandgren was allowed to board a chartered flight from Los Angeles bound for the Australian Open in Melbourne on Wednesday despite recently testing positive for COVID-19, t...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' Food and Drug Administration has authorized the emergency use of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine, its head said on Thursday. The Pfizer-BioNTech vacci...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A global team of scientists led by the World Health Organization arrived in China's central city of Wuhan, where COVID-19 first surfaced in late 2019, to investigate the origins of...