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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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Mediterranean death toll is record 5,000 migrants this year

A wooden boat, used by migrants and refugees, is abandoned at a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos November, 2015. The writing on the boat reads "Aegean zero hour"

GENEVA (Reuters) – A record 5,000 migrants are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea this year, following two (More…)

Malta hijack ends peacefully as Gaddafi loyalists surrender

Two hijackers of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 surrender to Maltese military on the runway at Malta Airport,

By Chris Scicluna

VALLETTA (Reuters) – Hijackers forced an airliner to land in Malta on Friday then freed all their (More…)

Highlights: Russian President Putin’s end-of-year news conference

Journalists listen to Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow, Russia, December 23,

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The following are highlights from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual end-of-year news conference.

ON U.S. POLITICS

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Passengers freed from plane hijacked by Gaddafi loyalists

Maltese troops survey a hijacked Libyan Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 on the runway at Malta Airport, December 23,

VALLETTA (Reuters) – All passengers were freed from a hijacked plane in Malta on Friday, but some crew remained on (More…)

Berlin market attack suspect killed in police shootout in Italy

The body of Anis Amri, the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack, is seen covered with a thermal blanket next to Italian officers in a suburb of the northern Italian city of Milan, Italy December 23, 2016.

By Emilio Parodi and Antonella Cinelli

MILAN (Reuters) – Italian police shot dead the man believed to be responsible for (More…)

U.N. council members meeting to decide on push to end settlements

A Jewish man covered in a prayer shawl, prays in the Jewish settler outpost of Amona in the West Bank

By Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Four U.N. Security Council members met on Friday to decide whether to vote (More…)

Snowden continues contacts with Russian intel services

Edward Snowden speaks via video link during a conference at University of Buenos Aires Law School, Argentina,

By Mark Hosenball and Jonathan Landay

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden “has had and continues (More…)

Egypt delays U.N. vote on settlements after Trump, Israel urge U.S. veto

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) stands next to Donald Trump during their meeting in New York,

By Michelle Nichols and Jeffrey Heller

UNITED NATIONS/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Egypt postponed a U.N. Security Council vote on Thursday on (More…)

U.N vote on Israeli settlement postponed, ‘potentially indefinitely’: source

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen during a news conference in Jerusalem

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A United Nations Security Council vote on a draft resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements has (More…)

Islamic State claims suicide car bombs that killed at least 23 east of Mosul

A man wounded in a bomb attack in Kokjali, receives treatment at a hospital in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil,

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State claimed three suicide car bombs that killed at least 15 civilians and eight Iraqi policemen (More…)