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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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Boko Haram attacks destroy farm communities, bring famine risk

Nigerian Women and Children waiting at a nutrition clinic

By Alexis Akwagyiram

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Fati Adamu has not seen three of her six children nor her husband (More…)

Worldwide cyber-crime network hit in coordinated raids

Logo of the Cybercrime Intelligence Unit of Germany's Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) Federal Crime Office is pictured during a media day in Wiesbaden, Germany,

BERLIN (Reuters) – One of the world’s biggest networks of hijacked computers, which is suspected of being used to attack (More…)

Putin curbs anti-Western rhetoric, says wants to get on with Trump

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during his annual state of the nation address at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia,

By Katya Golubkova and Denis Pinchuk

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin struck an unusually conciliatory tone in his annual (More…)

Turkey, Russia see need for Aleppo truce but divisions remain

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shakes hands with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Alanya, Turkey,

By Tulay Karadeniz

ALANYA, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey and Russia, two of the main backers of opposing sides in Syria’s (More…)

Beaten and bruised, detainee recounts Islamic State torture

Aiden Jassim's children sit next to their uncle Abdul Ilah Jassim during an interview with Reuters in Fadiliyah, Iraq,

By John Davison

FADILIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – Abdel Razzaq Jalal paused, visibly traumatized, as he told how Islamic State militants (More…)

Leaner and meaner: U.S. shale greater threat to OPEC after oil price war

Pumpjacks and other infrastructure for producing oil dot fields outside of Watford City, North Dakota,

By Catherine Ngai and Ernest Scheyder

NEW YORK/HOUSTON (Reuters) – In a corner of the prolific Bakken shale play in (More…)

Met a friendly stranger? Call us, say Lithuania’s spyhunters

Lithuania's State Security Department director Darius Jauniskis poses for a picture in Vilnius, Lithuania,

By Andrius Sytas

VILNIUS (Reuters) – A single mother takes a kindly man into her confidence. A student is plied (More…)

Soccer plane in Colombia crash was running out of fuel

Rescue crews work at the wreckage of a plane that crashed into the Colombian jungle with Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense onboard near Medellin, Colombia,

By Julia Symmes Cobb and Brad Haynes

LA UNION, Colombia/CHAPECO, Brazil (Reuters) – The pilot of a LAMIA Airlines plane (More…)

Twelve detained after Turkish dormitory fire kills schoolgirls

Firemen try to extinguish flames rising from a fire in a school dormitory in Aladag, in the southern city of Adana, Turkey

By Humeyra Pamuk and Gulsen Solaker

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Police in southern Turkey detained 12 people on Wednesday and sought (More…)

Sunni tribesmen battling Islamic State demand federalism in Iraq

Members of the Lions of the Tigris, a group of Sunni Arab fighters and part of the Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Comimittee) take part during a military operation against Islamic State militants in Shayyalah al-Imam, Iraq

SHAYYALAH AL-IMAM, Iraq (Reuters) – As mortar bombs landed ever closer, Sunni tribal fighters preparing to attack Islamic State seemed (More…)