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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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Rights groups challenge Israel’s new settlements law in court

view of houses in Israeli settlement in West Bank

By Maayan Lubell

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Rights groups petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday to annul a heavily criticized law (More…)

Highest levels of radiation reported by TEPCO from Fukushima power plant

A worker puts up new logo of TEPCO Holdings and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Group on the wall ahead of the transition to a holding company system through a compan

By Kami Klein

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) announced the highest documented radiation levels ever recorded in reactor 2 of (More…)

United Nations, EU condemn Israel legalizing settlements on Palestinian land

European Union foreign policy chief condenming israel

BRUSSELS/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief and the United Nations secretary-general on Tuesday criticized an Israeli (More…)

Family’s return to rebuild Aleppo street points to Syria’s future

Aleppo family returns and tries to resume normal life

By Angus McDowall

ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) – The Batash family are working with their bare hands to clear debris from (More…)

Erdogan, Trump agree to act jointly against Islamic State in Syria: Turkish sources

rebel fighter in turkey

WASHINGTON/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in a phone call overnight to act (More…)

U.N. seeks $2.1 billion to avert famine in Yemen

girls stand at the entrace of tent in yemen

By Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations appealed on Wednesday for $2.1 billion to provide food and other (More…)

Tillerson stresses cooperation in calls with Australia, Japan, South Korea

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson

By David Brunnstrom and Lesley Wroughton

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has underscored Washington’s intent to (More…)

German agency working to clear backlog of 435,000 asylum cases

rejected asylum seeker returns to middle east

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s migration agency hopes to clear a backlog of 435,000 asylum cases within months, the organization’s new (More…)

China says United States should ‘brush up on’ South China Sea history

Chinese vessels in South China Sea

BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States needs to brush up on its history about the South China Sea, as World (More…)

Shanty town fire in Philippines leaves 15,000 homeless

residents gather with their belongings on the street after hundreds of shanties were burned

MANILA (Reuters) – A massive fire swept through a crowded shanty town near the docks in Manila, destroying houses and (More…)