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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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Fed’s Evans says not yet confident U.S. inflation headed higher

Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans takes a question during a round table with the media in Shanghai,

NEW YORK (Reuters) – While the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation target is close to a 2-percent goal, an outspoken Fed (More…)

Islamic State brutality comes to light after military advance

Clothes of prisoners who were detained by Islamic State militants are seen in Hammam al-Ali, south of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq

By Stephen Kalin

HAMMAM AL-ALIL, Iraq (Reuters) – From behind the curtains of his bedroom window, 29-year-old Riyad Ahmed would (More…)

Islamic State abducts more than 200 near Mosul, retreats with thousands

A family fleeing fighting between the Islamic State and Iraqi army in Intisar disrict of eastern Mosul, make their way to safer territory, Iraq

By Tom Miles

GENEVA (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters abducted 295 former Iraqi Security Forces members near the militant stronghold (More…)

Myanmar allows food aid delivery to conflict-torn region

Children recycle goods from the ruins of a market which was set on fire at a Rohingya village outside Maugndaw in Rakhine state, Myanmar,

By Simon Lewis

YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar is allowing the first food deliveries for more than four weeks to the (More…)

Janet Reno, first U.S. woman attorney general, dies aged 78

Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno testifies before the 9-11 commission in the Hart Senate office building on Capitol Hill in Washington

By Will Dunham

(Reuters) – Janet Reno, the first woman U.S. attorney general who served eight tumultuous years with President (More…)

Trial begins of Islamic State suspects in Turkey’s worst suicide bombing

Carnations are seen placed on the ground during a protest against explosions at a peace march in Ankara, in central Istanbul, Turkey,

By Ece Toksabay

ANKARA (Reuters) – More than a dozen suspected members of Islamic State appeared under police protection in (More…)

Disease stalks Yemen as hospitals, clinics devastated by war

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than half of war-battered Yemen’s hospitals and clinics are closed or only partially functioning, (More…)

Cyber fraudsters take money out of 20,000 Tesco Bank accounts

A Tesco supermarket is seen, in west London

By Estelle Shirbon

LONDON (Reuters) – The banking arm of Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco was scrambling on Monday to deal (More…)

Islamic State deploys car bombs in new Syria battle

A U.S. fighter walks down a ladder from a barricade, north of Raqqa city, Syria

BEIRUT, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have set off five car bombs targeting U.S.-backed Syrian armed groups attacking (More…)

Australia turns down national vote on same-sex marriage

Gay rights activists hold a rainbow flag during a rally to support same-sex marriage in central Sydney August

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s bid to hold a national vote on whether to legalize same-sex marriage was defeated on Monday (More…)