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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Young

Trump asks U.S. Congress to prohibit late-term abortion

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump called for curbs on late-term abortion in his State of the Union address (More...)

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Thirteen Indians among Zika infected people in Singapore

A man cycles past a construction site where locally transmitted Zika cases were first discovered in Singapore

By Raju Gopalakrishnan and Marius Zaharia

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Thirteen Indian citizens are among those infected in an outbreak of (More…)

Storm bears down on Florida, hurricane threatens Hawaii

Three storm systems are shown (L TO R) Tropical Depression Nine to the southeast of Florida, Tropical Depression Eight just off the coast of the Carolinas and Hurricane Gaston in the central Atlantic Ocean are shown in this GOES East satellite image captured August 29, 2016.

(Reuters) – Forecasters issued a tropical storm warning on Wednesday for the Florida Gulf Coast, where preparations were being made (More…)

More than 300 million at risk of diseases from dirty water

A boy searches for coins thrown by devotees as religious offerings in a polluted water channel near a temple in Kolkata

By Magdalena Mis

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 300 million people in Asia, Africa and Latin America are (More…)

Zika virus findings show hearing loss to some babies

An Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen inside a test tube as part of a research on preventing the spread of the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases at a control and prevention center in Guadalupe,

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A study in Brazil of 70 babies whose mothers had confirmed Zika infections found that nearly 6 (More…)

Freak lightning storm kills 323 reindeer in Norway

Dead wild reindeer are seen on Hardangervidda in Norway, after lightning struck the central mountain plateau and killed more than 300 of them,

OSLO (Reuters) – A freak lightning storm has killed 323 reindeer in a remote mountainous area of Norway, officials said (More…)

Researchers find first U.S. bacteria with worrisome superbug genes

Colonies of E. coli bacteria are seen in a microscopic image courtesy of the CDC

(Reuters) – New Jersey researchers said on Monday they had identified perhaps the first strain of E. Coli bacteria in (More…)

FDA recommends Zika testing for all blood donated in U.S.

An edes aegypti mosquito is seen inside a test tube as part of a research on preventing the spread of the Zika

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended on Friday that all blood donated in the United States and (More…)

FDA warns former Sun Pharma U.S. drug factory over quality concerns

The corporate logo of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

MUMBAI (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has pulled up a former Sun Pharmaceutical drug factory for “knowingly” (More…)

Orlando hospitals won’t charge nightclub shooting victims for care

Gunshot survivor Angel Colon is surrounded by doctors as he listens to remarks at a news conference at the Orlando Regional Medical Center o

By Colleen Jenkins

(Reuters) – Two Florida hospitals will not seek payment of medical bills from the dozens of people (More…)

Without aid, 49,000 children will die this year in northeast Nigeria

Chadian refugee Fatime Hassan, 7, poses for a picture in Darnaim refugee camp, Lake Chad region, Chad

LAGOS (Reuters) – Nearly half a million children around Lake Chad face “severe acute malnutrition” due to drought and a (More…)