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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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Thirteen Indians among Zika infected people in Singapore

A man cycles past a construction site where locally transmitted Zika cases were first discovered in Singapore

By Raju Gopalakrishnan and Marius Zaharia

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Thirteen Indian citizens are among those infected in an outbreak of (More…)

Swiss tell EU: Hands off veterans’ assault rifles

Participants fire their infantry and assault rifles during the traditional 'Ruetlischiessen' (Ruetli shooting) competition at the Ruetli meadow in central Switzerland

By John Miller

ZURICH (Reuters) – Friction between Switzerland and the European Union over the bloc’s plans to tighten gun (More…)

Turkey won’t agree truce with Syrian Kurdish militia, despite U.S. unease

Turkish armoured personnel carriers drive towards the border in Karkamis on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern Gaziantep province, Turkey,

By David Dolan

KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey will not agree a truce with Kurdish militias in Syria as it (More…)

Oil slips on dollar strength, still set for monthly gain

Traffic passes a BP gas station on the North Circular Road in London,

By Libby George

LONDON (Reuters) – Crude slid on Wednesday, pressured by a strong dollar and high stocks of oil, (More…)

Italy rescues 3,000 migrants from Mediterranean as arrivals surge

A Red Cross member carries a child as migrants disembark from the Italian Navy vessel Sfinge in the Sicilian harbour of Pozzallo, southern Italy

ROME (Reuters) – Some 3000 migrants were saved in the Strait of Sicily in 30 separate rescue missions on Tuesday, (More…)

Key IS leader killed in air strike in Syria

An Islamic State flag is seen in this picture illustration

By Angus McDowall  and Phil Stewart

BEIRUT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Islamic State said on Tuesday one of its most prominent and (More…)

U.S. sets up ‘communications channels’ for crowded Syria war

A general view shows a damaged street with sandbags used as barriers in Aleppo's Saif al-Dawla

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition battling Islamic State, eager to avoid more clashes between Turkey and U.S.-backed Syrian fighters, (More…)

More than 300 million at risk of diseases from dirty water

A boy searches for coins thrown by devotees as religious offerings in a polluted water channel near a temple in Kolkata

By Magdalena Mis

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 300 million people in Asia, Africa and Latin America are (More…)

Zika virus findings show hearing loss to some babies

An Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen inside a test tube as part of a research on preventing the spread of the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases at a control and prevention center in Guadalupe,

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A study in Brazil of 70 babies whose mothers had confirmed Zika infections found that nearly 6 (More…)

Austria takes another baby step towards tougher asylum rules

Migrants wait to cross the border from Slovenia into Spielfeld in Austria, F

VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria has taken its next step, albeit small, toward introducing tougher rules on immigration that will allow (More…)