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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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Turkey’s Erdogan accuses U.S. of sending weapons to Kurdish fighters

urkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York

By Daren Butler and David Dolan

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supplying more (More…)

Yahoo says hackers stole data from 500 million accounts

A Yahoo logo is seen on top of the building where they have offices in New York

By Dustin Volz

(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said on Thursday that at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked (More…)

Putin, Assad ignore U.S. ; Aleppo hit by worst strikes for months

Damaged aid trucks are pictured after an airstrike on the rebel held Urm al-Kubra town, western Aleppo city, Syria S

By Tom Perry and Ellen Francis

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Warplanes mounted the heaviest air strikes in months against rebel-held districts (More…)

Death toll after migrant boat capsizes off Egypt reaches 52

People gather along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea during a search for victims after a migrant boat capsized, in Al-Beheira, Egypt

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian rescue workers have found nine more bodies in the Mediterranean Sea a day after a boat (More…)

Cost hampers drive to double number of children treated for starvation

Malnourished children wait for medical attention at the Halo health post in Halo village, a drought-stricken area in Oromia region in Ethiopia,

By Alex Whiting

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A drive to give six million severely malnourished children life-saving treatment every (More…)

Yahoo to provide details on massive data breach

A Yahoo logo is seen on top of the building where they have offices in New York City, U.S.,

(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc will disclose details this week of a data breach that compromised the data of several hundred (More…)

Nasdaq hits record high after Fed leaves rates unchanged

Floor governor Giacchi gives a price for Noble Midstream Partners LP, during the company's IPO on the floor of the New York Stock

By Yashaswini Swamynathan

(Reuters) – The Nasdaq hit a record intraday high on Thursday amid broad gains in U.S. stocks, (More…)

U.N. raps Congo after at least 50 killed in protests

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein attends the 33rd session of the Human Rights Council at the U.N. European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland,

GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights chief accused Congolese authorities on Thursday of taking an “extremely confrontational position” towards (More…)

Texas withdrawing from U.S. refugee resettle program

Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks at a campaign rally for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz in Dallas, Texas

By Jon Herskovitz

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Texas gave notice on Wednesday that it was withdrawing from participating in (More…)

Jets pound Aleppo’s rebel-held areas, defying U.S.

damaged site in Aleppo after air strike

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Warplanes mounted the heaviest air strikes in months against rebel-held districts of the city of Aleppo overnight, (More…)