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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

Mattis arrives in Afghanistan as rockets hit Kabul airport

By James Mackenzie and Hamid Shalizi

KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited Kabul on Wednesday to pledge (More…)

Top U.S. general says North Korea’s military posture unchanged amid tensions

By Idrees Ali and Christine Kim

WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) – Despite the escalation in tensions with North Korea over its ballistic (More…)

One week to cross a street: how IS pinned down Filipino soldiers in Marawi

By Tom Allard

MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) – With a grimace, Brigadier General Melquiades Ordiales of the Philippines 1st Marine (More…)

Palestinian gunman kills three Israeli guards at West Bank settlement

HAR ADAR, West Bank (Reuters) – A Palestinian man with security clearance to work at a Jewish settlement in the (More…)

Mexico in three-day countdown to search for earthquake survivors

By Daniel Trotta

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Rescuers are unlikely to find any more survivors of Mexico’s earthquake still buried (More…)

Rights group accuses Myanmar of crimes against humanity

By Shoon Naing

YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar is committing crimes against humanity in its campaign against Muslim insurgents in Rakhine (More…)

Russia tells Facebook to localize user data or be blocked

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will block access to Facebook next year unless the social network complies with a law that (More…)

Turkey threatens retaliation after Iraqi Kurdish independence vote

By Maher Chmaytelli

ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – The Iraqi government ruled out talks on possible secession for Kurdish-held northern Iraq (More…)

European ambassadors to U.S. back Iran nuclear pact

By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The ambassadors to Washington from Britain, France, Germany and the European Union all strongly (More…)

Venezuela doctors in protest urge stronger WHO stance on health crisis

By Alexandra Ulmer

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s doctors, fed up with what they called the World Health Organization’s passive attitude (More…)