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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

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North Korea missile detected by THAAD, program progressing faster than expected: South

The long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 (Mars-12). KCNA via REUTERS

By Christine Kim and Tom Miles

SEOUL/GENEVA (Reuters) – North Korea’s missile program is progressing faster than expected, South Korea’s (More…)

Israel wants White House to explain U.S. official’s Western Wall comment

David Friedman, new United States Ambassador to Israel, kisses the Western Wall after arriving in the Jewish state on Monday and immediately paying a visit to the main Jewish holy site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 15, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad

By Ori Lewis

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel wants the White House to explain why a U.S. diplomat preparing President Donald (More…)

Wall Street rises with help from technology, financial, energy stocks

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S.,

By Sinead Carew

(Reuters) – The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq notched record closing highs on Monday, powered by demand (More…)

U.S. says Syrians built crematorium at prison to dispose of bodies

A satellite view of Sednaya prison complex near Damascus,

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has evidence Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government has built a crematorium at a large (More…)

Roads blocked round Venezuela as anti-Maduro protests persist

By Andrew Cawthorne

CARACAS (Reuters) – Manning barricades, sitting in deck chairs and sharing food, opposition supporters blocked roads in (More…)

More disruptions feared from cyber attack; Microsoft slams government secrecy

Indonesia's Minister of Communications and Information, Rudiantara, speaks to journalists during a press conference about the recent cyber attack, at a cafe in Jakarta, Indonesia

By Dustin Volz and Eric Auchard

WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Officials across the globe scrambled over the weekend to catch the (More…)

North Korea’s latest missile launch suggests progress toward ICBM

The long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 (Mars-12) is launched during a test in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency

By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s successful missile test-launch signals major advances in developing an (More…)

China hit by cyber virus, Europe warns of more attacks

A hooded man holds a laptop computer as blue screen with an exclamation mark is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017.

By Cate Cadell and Guy Faulconbridge

BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) – The WannaCry “ransomware” cyber attack hobbled Chinese traffic police and schools (More…)

Global cyber attack slows but experts see risk of fresh strikes

An ambulance waits outside the emergency department at St Thomas' Hospital in central London, Britain May 12, 2017. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

By Jeremy Wagstaff and Eric Auchard

SINGAPORE/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A global cyber attack described as unprecedented in scale forced a (More…)

Russia’s Putin says ready to help resolve North Korea nuclear issue: South Korea

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an opening of the Center via a teleconference with Bethlehem, before a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi, Russia, May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Kochetkov/Pool

By Christine Kim

SEOUL (Reuters) – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin told his newly elected South Korean counterpart, Moon Jae-in, in (More…)