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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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South Korea says North Korean ministries organized assassination in Malaysia

Kim Jong Nam arrives at Beijing airport in Beijing, China, in this photo taken by Kyodo February 11, 2007.

By Ju-min Park

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean intelligence believes suspects wanted for the murder of the half-brother of North (More…)

Tens of thousands flood into Sudan from famine-hit South Sudan

A woman waits to be registered prior to a food distribution carried out by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Thonyor, Leer state, South Sudan.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – More than 31,000 South Sudanese refugees – mostly women and children – have crossed the border into (More…)

Last letters : From Mosul schoolboys to Islamic State ‘martyrs’

Teenage militant Alaa abd al-Akeedi's final letter to his family appears on official Islamic State stationery in Mosul in Erbil, Iraq, February 26, 2017.

By Stephen Kalin

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – “My dear family, please forgive me,” reads the handwritten letter discarded in the (More…)

U.S. says Trump order will not undermine data transfer deals with EU

U.S. President Donald Trump walks after speaking during the Governor's Dinner in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 26, 2017.

By Julia Fioretti

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – An executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump to crack down on illegal (More…)

Israeli aircraft attack Hamas targets after rocket fired from Gaza

Smoke rises following what police said was an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip February 27, 2017.

GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli aircraft carried out a series of strikes in Gaza on Monday, wounding at least four people, (More…)

Mexico warns it will end NAFTA talks if U.S. proposes tariffs

Mexico's Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo delivers a speech during a "Made in Mexico" event in Mexico City, Mexico,

(Reuters) – Mexico’s economy minister Ildefonso Guajardo warned that his country will break off negotiations on the North American Free (More…)

One dead after man drives into crowd in Germany, no sign of terrorism: authorities

By Andreas Burger

HEIDELBERG, Germany (Reuters) – A man died and two other people were injured after a 35-year-old German (More…)

First planned North Korea-U.S. contact in Trump administration canceled: WSJ

The White House is seen from the South Lawn in Washington October 17, 2008. REUTERS/Larry Downing

SEOUL (Reuters) – Plans for the first contact between North Korea and the United States after President Donald Trump took (More…)

Attack on Syrian security forces in Homs kills dozens, prompts airstrikes

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Suicide bombers stormed two Syrian security offices in Homs on Saturday, killing dozens with gunfire and explosions (More…)

North Korea evades sanctions with network of overseas companies: U.N. report

FILE PHOTO - A North Korean flag flies on a mast at the Permanent Mission of North Korea in Geneva October 2, 2014. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

By James Pearson

(Reuters) – North Korea is evading international sanctions with a sophisticated network of overseas companies, enabled partly (More…)