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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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More than 18 million on AIDS treatment a million more than 2015

A nurse (L) hands out a red ribbon to a woman, to mark World Aids Day, at the entrance of Emilio Ribas Hospital, in Sao Paulo

By Kate Kelland

LONDON, Nov 21 – More than 18 million people now have access to life-saving AIDS treatment, 1.2 (More…)

France says it has foiled another attack, arresting seven

A French soldier stands guard near Strasbourg's cathedral in Strasbourg, France,

PARIS (Reuters) – France said on Monday it had foiled a terrorist plot and arrested seven people, a year after (More…)

Bolivia declares state of emergency due to drought, water shortage

A general view of the dried Ajuan Khota dam, a water reserve affected by drought near La Paz, Bolivia,

LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s government declared a state of emergency on Monday due to water shortages in large swaths (More…)

India train crash raises concerns of underinvestment as toll hits 142

Rescue workers search for survivors at the site of a train derailment in Pukhrayan, south of Kanpur city, India

By Jitendra Prakash and Rupam Jain

PUKHRAYAN, India/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian rescuers on Monday called off a search of (More…)

Obama, Putin talk about Syria and Ukraine in quick summit meet

Obama and Putin

LIMA (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke for around four minutes on Sunday (More…)

Haitians are suffering! Help is arriving but it is not enough!

Prenille Nord, 42, poses for a photograph with his children Darline and Kervins among the debris of their destroyed house after Hurricane Matthew hit Jeremie, Haiti,

By Kami Klein

Over the past decade, Haitians have suffered more natural calamity than any people in the world. On (More…)

China, U.S. look past tensions with joint relief drill

Liu Xiaowu (C), army commander of the Chinese southern military region, and General Robert Brown (2nd L), commanding general of the U.S. Army Pacific, attend a session as the Chinese and U.S. armed forces hold joint humanitarian relief drills in Kunming, Yunnan province, China

By Ben Blanchard

KUNMING, China, Nov 18 (Reuters) – China and the United States wrapped up a three day humanitarian relief (More…)

Thousands of Indonesians expected to rally against rising intolerance

Members of hardline Muslim groups hold a big national flag as they attend a protest against Jakarta's incumbent governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian running in the upcoming election, in Jakarta, Indonesia

By Eveline Danubrata

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Thousands of Indonesians are expected to rally on Saturday against what they see as (More…)

U.N. says Syria’s Aleppo faces ‘bleak moment’, all aid convoys blocked

A girl makes her way through the debris of a damaged site that was hit yesterday by airstrikes in the rebel held al-Shaar neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria

By Tom Miles

GENEVA (Reuters) – Around 250,000 civilians in Syria’s besieged eastern Aleppo have run out of aid supplies (More…)

Iraqi children dump Islamic State’s books of violence

Students attend classes after the city was recaptured from the Islamic State militants in Qayyara, Iraq,

By Isabel Coles

QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) – The school walls have a fresh coat of paint and classrooms are crammed, (More…)