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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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Netanyahu seeks to rally Israelis around him in anti-Obama assault

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York

By Jeffrey Heller

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu has been unrelenting in his criticism of the  Obama administration over what (More…)

Deja vu for U.S. troops celebrating Christmas in Iraq again

U.S. soldiers enjoy a Christmas dinner at an army base in Karamless town, east of Mosul,

By Stephen Kalin

EAST OF MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – This is the third Christmas that Staff Sergeant Magdiel Asencio is (More…)

All 92 on Syria-bound Russian military jet killed in crash

A woman lays flowers in memory of passengers and crew members of Russian military Tu-154 plane, which crashed into the Black Sea, at the Russian embassy in Minsk

By Polina Devitt and Andrew Osborn

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian military plane carrying 92 people, including dozens of Red (More…)

Chile’s government works to re-establish connectivity after 7.6 earthquake

A damaged road is seen after a quake at Tarahuin, on Chiloe island, southern Chile

By Gram Slattery

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s government set to work on Monday repairing roads and restoring electricity to southern (More…)

CHRIST IS BORN!!

Christ Is BORN!

By Kami Klein

For Christians, Christmas represents the light of hope that we carry within us. The birth of Jesus (More…)

Defying pressure, U.S. lets U.N. denounce Israeli settlements

A construction site is seen in the Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev, in the occupied West Bank

By Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States on Friday allowed the U.N. Security Council to adopt a (More…)

FBI warns of possible Islamic State-inspired attacks in U.S.

A member of the New York Police Department's Counterterrorism Bureau patrols the Union Square Holiday market following the Berlin Christmas market attacks in Manhattan, New York City

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. federal authorities cautioned local law enforcement on Friday to be aware that supporters of Islamic State (More…)

Iraqis celebrate first Christmas near Mosul after Islamic State pushback

A Christian woman inspects a home in the town of Bartella east of Mosul, Iraq, after it was liberated from Islamic State militants

By Maher Chmaytelli

BARTELLA, Iraq (Reuters) – A few hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to Bartella, a northern town (More…)

U.S. senator threatens to curb aid over U.N. resolution on Israel

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham speaks during a news conference in Cairo, Egypt

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top U.S. senator who oversees the United States’ UN funding threatened on Friday to pull financial (More…)

Syrian rebels shell Aleppo after withdrawal

SYRIA: A man walks on the rubble of damaged buildings after an airstrike on the rebel held al-Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian rebels shelled Aleppo on Friday, killing three people, state television reported, a day after insurgents finished (More…)