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By Akira Tomoshige Akiko Okamoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Yusuke Aoi has seen earnings at his traditional Tokyo bar plunge since the coronavirus pandemic began last year - and fears the area's second state o...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday hailed a breakthrough between Guld Arab states and Qatar earlier this week, saying the move to restore ties and lift restrictions was "ver...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's commerce minister Wang Wentao said on Friday the pressure on China to stabilise foreign trade and foreign investment remains huge in 2021. Wang was speaking in an interview...

(Reuters) - UK health regulators may grant emergency use authorization to Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine as soon as Friday, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. (Reporting by Mr...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU leaders are set to meet online on January 21 to discuss the bloc's efforts to counter the COVID-19 pandemic, the spokesman of the chair of EU summits said on Friday. The spokes...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark is developing a digital "vaccine passport" for people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine, a move that may enable them to travel to countries where such documentation i...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany reported a record 1,188 daily COVID-19 deaths on Friday, only days after further tightening a national lockdown amid fears that a more transmissible variant of the coronavir...

PARIS (Reuters) - The eastern French city of Strasbourg, home to one of the European Union parliament buildings, will have a 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) evening curfew imposed on it from Sunday onwards, as part...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's huge army of Olympic athletes are preparing behind closed doors for this year's Tokyo Games, simulating the kind of atmosphere they might experience in Japan, the Xinhua ne...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish lawmakers on Friday passed a bill that gives the government the temporary power to shut shopping centres and public transport and to fine people who break social distanci...