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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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Putin faces dilemma after vote win; How to prolong a system based on himself

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he addresses students during his visit to the German Embassy school in Moscow, Russia,

By Andrew Osborn

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin appears politically invincible after Russia’s ruling party won its biggest ever parliamentary (More…)

MH17 was shot down by Russian-made missile fired from rebel held area

Local workers transport a piece of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 wreckage at the site of the plane crash near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine

By Toby Sterling and Anthony Deutsch

NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands (Reuters) – A Malaysian airliner shot down in eastern Ukraine was hit (More…)

War planes knock out Aleppo hospital as Russian backed assault intensifies

Medics inspect the damage outside a field hospital after an airstrike in the rebel-held al-Maadi neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria,

By Ellen Francis and Tom Perry

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked a major Aleppo hospital out of (More…)

China upset as U.S. sanctions firm tied to North Korea nuclear program

A North Korean flag flies on a mast at the Permanent Mission of North Korea in Geneva

BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Tuesday it was opposed to any country using its own laws to carry out (More…)

Thailand investigates four cases of suspected Zika-linked microcephaly

A city worker fumigates the area to control the spread of mosquitoes at a university in Bangkok, Thailand,

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Pracha Hariraksapitak

BANGKOK, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Thailand is investigating four suspected cases of Zika-related microcephaly (More…)

Kerry defends diplomacy as Russian-backed forces pound Aleppo

People dig in the rubble in an ongoing search for survivors at a site hit previously by an airstrike in the rebel-held Tariq al-Bab neighborhood of Aleppo,

By Patricia Zengerle and Lisa Barrington

CARTAGENA, Colombia/BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry defended his efforts to (More…)

Death Toll from capsized migrant boat off Egypt rises to 177

An Egyptian mother reacts beside the body of her son who was on a boat carrying migrants which capsized off Egypt's coast, in Al-Beheira, Egypt, September 22, 2016.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Eight more bodies from the wreck of a boat carrying hundreds of migrants were recovered from Mediterranean (More…)

Taiwans’ third typhoon of the month kills at least four, hundreds injuried

A damaged tent is see as Typhoon Megi hits Hualien, eastern Taiwan,

TAIPEI, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The third typhoon to hit Taiwan this month killed at least four people and injured hundreds (More…)

India begins campaign at United Nations to isolate Pakistan

India's Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York

By Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – India began a campaign to isolate Pakistan at the United Nations on Monday, (More…)

U.S. network of Turkish cleric facing pressure as those at home seek help

U.S. based cleric Fethullah Gulen at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania

By Julia Harte and Matt Spetalnick

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A network of more than 150 U.S. charter schools linked to (More…)