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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

Islamic State using online ‘headhunters’ to recruit young Germans

By Andrea Shalal

BERLIN (Reuters) – Islamic State is using “headhunters” on social media and instant messaging sites to recruit (More…)

North Korea may test-launch intercontinental ballistic missile soon

By James Pearson

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea may be preparing to test-launch a new, upgraded prototype of an intercontinental (More…)

Avalanche destroys Italian hotel, up to 30 feared dead under snow

By Roberto Mignucci

PENNE, Italy (Reuters) – A huge avalanche swallowed up a luxury mountain hotel in central Italy after (More…)

China’s Xi says to build new relations with United States

By Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA (Reuters) – China will build a new model of relations with the United (More…)

Ukraine’s power outage was a cyber attack: Ukrenergo

By Pavel Polityuk, Oleg Vukmanovic and Stephen Jewkes

KIEV/MILAN (Reuters) – A power blackout in Ukraine’s capital Kiev last month (More…)

Russia says joins forces with Turkey to bomb Syria militants

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday Russian war planes had joined forces with Turkish jets to (More…)

Arab Israeli and policeman killed in suspected car ramming attack in southern Israel

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Police in Israel said an Arab Israeli on Wednesday rammed his car into a group of policemen (More…)

In northern Aleppo, children return to school used as Islamic State prison

By Khalil Ashawi

AL-RAI, Syria (Reuters) – Sifting through ripped up textbooks and writing on broken whiteboards, Syrian children returned (More…)

Elite North Korean defector says more diplomats waiting to defect to Seoul: Yonhap

SEOUL (Reuters) – More high-level North Korean diplomats are waiting to defect to South Korea from their overseas posts in (More…)

As caliphate crumbles, Islamic State lashes out in Iraq

By John Davison

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Two days after Iraqi forces launched a new push against Islamic State in Mosul, (More…)