Top Story

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...)

World

Red Cross says seven treated for exposure to toxic agents near Mosul

Khatla Ali Abdullah, 90, is embraced as she flees her home as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants in western Mosul. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Five children and two women are receiving treatment for exposure to chemical agents near the Iraqi city (More…)

U.S. carrier puts on show of ‘commitment’, not power, in South China Sea

U.S. Navy personnel prepare to launch an F18 fighter jet on the deck of USS Carl Vinson in the South China Sea. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

By Manuel Mogato

ABOARD THE USS CARL VINSON, South China Sea (Reuters) – The flight deck of the USS Carl (More…)

Poll sees Irish nationalist vote up in Northern Ireland election

Tellers count ballots in the Northern Ireland assembly elections, in Ballymena, Northern Ireland March 3, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

BELFAST (Reuters) – Turnout was higher among Irish nationalist voters than pro-British unionists in elections in Northern Ireland on Thursday, (More…)

Syria talks may surprise by meeting the low bar of expectations

General view at the start of a meeting between UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, 2nd R, and Syrian government delegation during Syria peace talks in Geneva, Switzerland February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Xu Jinquan/Pool

By Tom Miles, John Irish and Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA (Reuters) – No breakthrough was promised at Syria peace talks in (More…)

Philippines’ Duterte will pay price for drugs killings, detained senator says

Philippine Senator Leila de Lima gestures during a news conference at the Senate headquarters in Pasay city, metro Manila, Philippines September 22, 2016. Picture taken September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

MANILA (Reuters) – A senator and detained critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has warned he and (More…)

Patients trapped after roof collapse at Johannesburg hospital

Rescue workers are seen at a site of a roof collapse at Johannesburg's Charlotte Maxeke state hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Patients and workers were trapped after a roof collapsed at Johannesburg’s Charlotte Maxeke state hospital on Thursday, (More…)

China hints at trade war strategy in South Korea standoff

A barbed-wire fence is set up around a golf course owned by Lotte, where the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system will be deployed, in Seongju, South Korea, March 1, 2017. Kim Joon-beom/Yonhap via REUTERS

By Adam Jourdan

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – South Korean firms are being squeezed in China, in suspected retaliation for Seoul’s deployment (More…)

Venezuela’s epileptic patients struggle with seizures amid drug shortage

Miguel Anton (C) feeds his son Jose Gregorio Anton, 11, a neurological patient being treated with anticonvulsants, at their house in La Guaira, Venezuela February 20, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

By Andreina Aponte

MAIQUETIA, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelan plumber Marcos Heredia scoured 20 pharmacies in one day but could not (More…)

Germany’s Merkel to visit Washington March 14

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a joint news conference with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi following talks at the El-Thadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Washington on March 14 to meet President Donald Trump, their (More…)

U.N. says tide of refugees from South Sudan rising fast

An aerial photograph showing South Sudanese refugees at Bidi Bidi refugeeís resettlement camp near the border with South Sudan, in Yumbe district, northern Uganda December 7, 2016. REUTERS/James Akena/File Photo

By Elias Biryabarema

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Some 1.5 million refugees have fled fighting and famine in South Sudan to neighboring (More…)