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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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Trump’s U.N. nominee to blast world body over Israel: testimony

Nikki Haley to-be amassador under Donald Trump for United Nations speaks for Israel

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations will blast the world (More…)

At least 76 killed in air strike on Nigerian refugee camp: ICRC

Aftermath of bombing of refugee camp in Nigeria

GENEVA (Reuters) – At least 76 people were killed in Tuesday’s accidental Nigerian Air Force strike on a refugee camp (More…)

Nigerian air force kills 50 in air strike on refugee camp

Injured people are comforted at the site after a bombing attack of an internally displaced persons camp in Rann, Nigeria

By Lanre Ola

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria’s air force killed 50 people and injured 120 in an air strike (More…)

Iraqis who escaped Islamic State grapple with trauma

Displaced people, who fled Islamic State militants, cross the bridge in Al-Muthanna neighborhood of Mosul, Iraq,

By Stephen Kalin

DEBAGA, Iraq (Reuters) – While fleeing Islamic State rule in northern Iraq three months ago, Laila saw (More…)

Iraqi forces push into IS-held pocket in Mosul

Young boy in the Andalus district holds up his shirt to show Iraqi forces that he is not wearing a suicide vest during an operation to clear the al-

By Isabel Coles and John Davison

MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi special forces pushed deeper into Islamic State-held districts in (More…)

General Motors says to invest additional $1 billion in U.S.

The GM logo is seen at the General Motors Warren Transmission Operations Plant i

By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – General Motors Co confirmed on Tuesday it would invest an additional $1 billion in (More…)

Homeless in wintry northern India shiver in buses, portable cabins

A family gather under blankets to shelter from the cold beneath a flyover in Delhi, India

By Rina Chandran

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Buses and portable cabins are doubling up as shelters for the homeless (More…)

Turkey says captures nightclub attacker who acted for Islamic State

A man places flowers at the entrance of Reina nightclub, which was attacked by a gunman, in Istanbul, Turkey January 3, 2017.

By Daren Butler

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish authorities have captured the gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub (More…)

Russia says ready to talk to Trump about nuclear arms, Syria

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova attend a news conference in Moscow, Russia

By Andrew Osborn and Vladimir Soldatkin

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow was (More…)

Underwater search for missing Malaysian flight ends without a trace

Handwritten notes on how a crew member should report the sighting of debris in the southern Indian Ocean is pictured on a window aboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft searching for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370

By Tom Westbrook and Jonathan Barrett

SYDNEY (Reuters) – The deep-sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ended on (More…)