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House panel plans action on gun background check bill next week

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee will take up legislation next week that (More...)

In blow to minorities, Pakistani court orders citizens to declare religion

By Saad Sayeed

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani court ruled on Friday that all citizens must declare their religion when (More…)

Monsoon floods and landslides threaten 100,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

By Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall

CHAKMAKUL REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) – The Rohingya refugees who live in shacks (More…)

In the cellars of eastern Ghouta, Syrians wait in fear

EASTERN GHOUTA, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian Abu Alma has holed up in a basement for two weeks with his wife (More…)

Aid convoy delivers food in Syria’s besieged Ghouta despite bombardment

BEIRUT (Reuters) – An emergency aid convoy crossed front lines into the besieged rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta and delivered (More…)

Two million children in Congo at risk of starvation, U.N. warns

GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 2 million children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are estimated to be at risk (More…)

Israeli troops kill Palestinian in West Bank clashes

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man during clashes in the occupied West Bank on (More…)

U.S. economy gains 313,000 jobs in February; wage growth slows

By Lucia Mutikani

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job growth surged in February, recording its biggest increase in more than 1-1/2 (More…)

Trump says prepared to meet North Korea’s Kim in first-ever such parley

By Christine Kim and Steve Holland

SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he was prepared to meet North (More…)

Britain sends specialist troops to city where Russian double agent poisoned

By Peter Nicholls and Elizabeth Burden

SALISBURY, England (Reuters) – Britain deployed specialist troops on Friday to help remove potentially (More…)

Seven years after tsunami, Japanese live uneasily with seawalls

By Megumi Lim

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) – When a massive earthquake struck in 2011, Japanese oyster fisherman Atsushi Fujita was (More…)