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Antarctica gives birth to world’s largest iceberg

By Steve Gorman

(Reuters) -A giant slab of ice bigger than the Spanish island of Majorca has sheared off from (More…)

COVID fight could return ‘to square one’: experts sound vaccines alarm

By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) – India’s export ban on COVID-19 shots risks dragging the battle against the pandemic “back (More…)

Greece evacuates more villages as forest fire spreads to Attica region

By Angeliki Koutantou

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek authorities ordered the evacuation of more villages threatened by a forest fire on Thursday (More…)

Cattle for raffle gets Thai town in mood for vaccines

By Panarat Thepgumpanat

BANGKOK (Reuters) -A district of northern Thailand has launched a raffle campaign for inoculated residents to win (More…)

Colombia’s police advises Haiti on tackling kidnapping crisis

By Sarah Marsh

HAVANA (Reuters) – Colombia, once the kidnap capital of the world, reduced kidnappings by 95% over the (More…)

U.S. to bring in more migrants forced to wait in Mexico under Trump program

By Ted Hesson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is working to reopen some cases of non-Mexican asylum seekers who (More…)

How Myanmar’s military moved in on the telecoms sector to spy on citizens

By Fanny Potkin and Poppy McPherson

SINGAPORE/BANGKOK (Reuters) -In the months before the Myanmar military’s Feb. 1 coup, the country’s (More…)

Overwintering ‘zombie’ fires may become more common as climate changes

By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – In the boreal forests of the planet’s far north, where the climate is (More…)

Braving COVID risks, Indian volunteers tend to the sick and the dead

By Kannaki Deka and Chandini Monnappa

BENGALURU (Reuters) – Every day after he wraps up the online classes he teaches (More…)

Rescuers hunt 49 missing as cyclone pummels Indian coast

By Sumit Khanna and Aishwarya Nair

AHMEDABAD/MUMBAI (Reuters) -Naval vessels and aircraft scoured the waters off India’s west coast late (More…)