Two children and a woman have been killed and 10 others injured in Russian airstrikes in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, an opposition-held area where a truce is supposed to be in place. Sources in the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) said that three civilians, including a woman...

(Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Group is in talks to buy U.S. drugmaker Biogen Inc (BIIB.O), Korea Economic Daily reported on Wednesday, citing investment banking sources. The report said Biogen approached Samsung to buy its shares, which could be valued at more than $42 billion. The...

(Reuters) - France is seeing a "tsunami" of COVID-19 infections, with 208,000 cases reported over the past 24 hours, a new national and European record, Health Minister Olivier Veran told lawmakers on Wednesday. France has been breaking infection records repeatedly over the past few days,...

A total of 116 cities in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia were in a state of emergency because of flooding on Tuesday due to heavy rains that have been pounding the region since the end of November. Cities in at least five other states in Brazil's north and southeast have also been...