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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...)

Syria’s Idlib spared attack, Turkey to send in more troops

By Tulay Karadeniz and Suleiman Al-Khalidi

ANKARA/AMMAN (Reuters) – Turkey will send more troops into Syria’s Idlib province after striking (More…)

Greece moves to ease overcrowding in Lesbos migrant camp

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece said on Tuesday it would move 2,000 asylum-seekers from the island of Lesbos to the mainland (More…)

Rising flood waters from Florence menace Carolinas – kills at least 32

By Ernest Scheyder and Patrick Rucker

WILMINGTON/FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Reuters) – Rising flood waters threatened communities across the Carolinas on Tuesday (More…)

Classrooms near empty as school starts in crisis-stricken Venezuela

By Brian Ellsworth and Vivian Sequera

CAUCAGUA, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuela’s school year began on Monday with few students arriving (More…)

Storm Florence’s drenching rains kill 23 in the Carolinas

By Ernest Scheyder and Patrick Rucker

WILMINGTON/FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Reuters) – Deeper flooding loomed in the hours and days ahead from (More…)

Greece must urgently move vulnerable migrants from island camp

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece should urgently move children and other vulnerable migrants and refugees from its most overcrowded island camp (More…)

Why Idlib matters and the obstacles Assad faces there

BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian conflict has turned toward the northwestern Idlib region, where government preparations for a Russian-backed offensive (More…)

Amazon investigating claims of employees leaking data for bribes

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it was investigating suspected internal leaks of confidential information by its employees for (More…)

Palestinian ministry rolls back statement that Gaza boy was killed by Israeli gunfire

GAZA (Reuters) – A medical source in the Palestinian Health Ministry backed away on Monday from an assertion that an (More…)

U.S. pushes back national wireless alert test to Oct. 3

By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration has delayed until next month plans to send a message to (More…)