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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...)

Taliban emerge from hiding to battle Afghan forces in city near Iran

By Storay Karimi and Mohammad Stanekzai

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban fighters emerged from hiding in the dead of night (More…)

North Korea says won’t hold talks with ‘incompetent’ South unless differences settled

By Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s chief negotiator called the South Korean government “ignorant and (More…)

Trump says ‘We’ll see’ on North Korea summit, to insist on denuclearization

By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged on Wednesday it was unclear if (More…)

North Korea is dismantling its nuclear site, but is it abandoning its arsenal or hiding evidence?

By Josh Smith

SEOUL (Reuters) – Satellite imagery shows North Korea dismantling facilities at its nuclear test site, but experts (More…)

Chlorine likely used in February attack in Idlib, Syria-weapons agency

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Banned chlorine munitions were likely dropped on a Syrian neighborhood in February, an international body on chemical (More…)

U.S. investigating Cambridge Analytica: New York Times

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department and the FBI are investigating Cambridge Analytica, a now-defunct political data firm embroiled (More…)

Merkel defends nuclear deal, Iran says won’t ‘surrender’ to U.S.

By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin

LONDON (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed back on Wednesday against Washington’s rejection of the Iran (More…)

North Korea says may reconsider summit with Trump, suspends talks with South

By Christine Kim and Josh Smith

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea threw next month’s summit between Kim Jong Un and (More…)

Power outages linger as U.S. Northeast recovers from deadly storm

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A violent spring storm that killed at least five people in the northeastern United States downed (More…)