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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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World Vision lays off contractors in Gaza after Israel allegations

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA (Reuters) – Christian aid group World Vision has laid off about 120 contractors in the Gaza (More…)

North Korea conducts fifth and largest nuclear test, drawing broad condemnation

South Korean emergency meeting

* Test seen as North’s most powerful yet

* Japan protests, sends jets to monitor for radiation

* China begins (More…)

Doctors say Haiti ripe for large Zika outbreak, virus under: reported

Residents in Haiti

By Makini Brice

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Posters warning of the dangers of Zika only reached Haiti’s health ministry in August, (More…)

Britain is building a security wall to stop migrants from Calais

Workers set-up barbed wires on top of a fence along the harbour of Calais to prevent migrants jumping aboard lorries

LONDON/CALAIS, France (Reuters) – Work on building a wall along the approach road to the French port of Calais to (More…)

Israel building an underground barrier along Gaza border

The sun sets over the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has begun construction of an underground barrier along the frontier with the Gaza Strip that is (More…)

Scientists find deadly scrub typhus bacteria in South America

Picture of a Chigger, known carrier of Scrub typhus in Southeast Asia.

By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) – Scrub typhus, a deadly disease common in southeast Asia and spread by microscopic biting (More…)

Singapore says unclear if local Zika strain causes birth defects

Terry Lynn Stubblefield

By Fathin Ungku and Marius Zaharia

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore said on Thursday it did not know if the Zika (More…)

Chinese Coast Guard involved in most South China Sea clashes

Chinese Coast Guard vessel manoeuvres to block a Philippine government supply ship with members of media aboard at disputed Second Thomas Shoal in South China Sea

 

By Greg Torode

HONG KONG, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Increasingly assertive action by China’s coast guard ships in the South (More…)

New Caspian oil fields to add to glutted global market

Oil rig and infrastructure of D Island are pictured at Kashagan offshore oil field in Caspian sea in western Kazakhstan

By Olga Yagova and Alla Afanasyeva

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Two new Caspian Sea oil fields are due by the end (More…)

Palestinian leader Abbas KGB spy in 1980’s according to documents

Gideon Remez, one of the Israeli researchers who said on Thursday that Soviet-era documents showed that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas worked in the 1980s for the KGB, speaks to Reuters during an interview in Jerusalem

By Jeffrey Heller

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Soviet-era documents show that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas worked in the 1980s for the (More…)