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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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Germany keen to avoid new ‘ice age’ in ties between Russia, West

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (R) and German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel walk out to meet the press where Tillerson made a statement about the flooding in Houston, Texas, but declined questions, prior to a bilateral meeting, at the State Department, in Washington, U.S., August 29, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Theiler

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Germany and Europe want to ensure that new U.S. sanctions against Russia do not lead to a (More…)

War-ravaged South Sudan passes budget, but funding will be ‘difficult’

FILE PHOTO: An armed man walks on a path close to the village of Nialdhiu, South Sudan February 7, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola/File Photo

By Denis Dumo

NAIROBI (Reuters) – South Sudan’s parliament has passed its 2017/2018 budget but, after four years of war, (More…)

EU urges swifter Brexit talks as London seeks ‘flexibility’

Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union David Davis (L) and European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier talk to the media, ahead of Brexit talks in Brussels, Belgium August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

By Gabriela Baczynska and Alastair Macdonald

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Monday he (More…)

Russia seeks to reassure over war games, denies invasion plans

FILE PHOTO: Servicemen take part in the joint war games Zapad-2013 (West-2013), attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, at the Khmelevka range on Russia's Baltic Sea in the Kaliningrad Region, September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin

By Andrew Osborn and Maria Tsvetkova

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia tried to calm fears over war games it plans to (More…)

Iraqi forces face tough resistance from IS in final Tal Afar battle

Members of Iraqi Army fire mortar shells during the war between Iraqi army and Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) against the Islamic State militants in al-Ayadiya, northwest of Tal Afar, Iraq August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

By Thaier Al-Sudani, Kawa Omar and Ahmed Rasheed

AL-‘AYADIYA/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi forces said they faced tough resistance on Monday (More…)

Exclusive: India and Pakistan hit by spy malware – cybersecurity firm

FILE PHOTO: A Symantec security app is seen on a phone in this illustration photo taken May 23, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration/File Photo

By Rahul Bhatia

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Symantec Corp, a digital security company, says it has identified a sustained cyber spying (More…)

Trump says ‘all options on the table’ after North Korea fires missile over Japan

Trump says 'all options on the table' after North Korea fires missile over Japan

By William Mallard and Jack Kim

TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan’s northern Hokkaido island (More…)

Iran rejects U.S. demand for U.N. inspector visit to military sites

Iran rejects U.S. demand for U.N. inspector visit to military sites

ANKARA (Reuters) – Iran has dismissed a U.S. demand for U.N. nuclear inspectors to visit its military bases as “merely (More…)

Netanyahu: Iran building missile production sites in Syria, Lebanon

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) gestures as he delivers a joint statement with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres in Jerusalem August 28,

By Jeffrey Heller

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran is building sites to produce (More…)

Canadian pastor escaped execution due to foreign citizenship

Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim speaks at the Light Presbyterian Church in Mississauga.

TORONTO (Reuters) – A Canadian pastor whom North Korea released this month after two years of imprisonment escaped execution and (More…)