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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 signals no let up in Syria campaign despite concerns

Turkish army tanks make their way towards the Syrian border town of Jarablus

By Edmund Blair and Asli Kandemir

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s army chief signaled no let up in a Syria offensive (More…)

Death toll in Philippines drug war hits 2000

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a National Heroes Day commemoration at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes' Cemetery) in Taguig city, Metro Manila

By Manuel Mogato

MANILA (Reuters) – The number of drug-related killings in the Philippines since Rodrigo Duterte became president two (More…)

Italy to hold mass funeral as search for bodies continue

Mourners cry next to a coffin prior the funeral for victims of the earthquake that leveled the town in Amatrice

By Matteo Berlenga and Iona Serrapica

AMATRICE, Italy (Reuters) – Italy hurriedly revised preparations for a mass funeral for earthquake (More…)

More than a million Indian workers to go on strike Friday

An employee walks out of the State Bank of India main branch in Mumbai, India,

By Manoj Kumar

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – More than a million Indian workers in banking, telecoms and other sectors will (More…)

North Korea publicly executes two officials for disobeying Kim Jong Un

File photo of North Korean flag flying on a mast at the Permanent Mission of North Korea in Geneva

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea publicly executed two officials in early August for disobeying leader Kim Jong Un, a South (More…)

Putin to hold high level meetings including talks with Erdogan

Russian President Putin shakes hands with Turkish President Erdogan during news conference following their meeting in St. Petersburg

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian leader Vladimir Putin will hold a number of high-level bilateral meetings on the sidelines of Sept. (More…)

Oil Prices rise on U.S. weather fears

View of gasoline pumps at a petrol station in Paris in Paris, France,

By Ahmad Ghaddar

LONDON (Reuters) – Oil futures rose on Tuesday supported by production suspensions in the U.S. Gulf due (More…)

Freak lightning storm kills 323 reindeer in Norway

Dead wild reindeer are seen on Hardangervidda in Norway, after lightning struck the central mountain plateau and killed more than 300 of them,

OSLO (Reuters) – A freak lightning storm has killed 323 reindeer in a remote mountainous area of Norway, officials said (More…)

Iran deploys Russian-made S-300 missiles at its Fordow nuclear site

File photo of the S-300 air defence system launching a missile during the International Army Games 2016 at the Ashuluk military polygon outside Astrakhan

ANKARA (Reuters) – Iran has deployed the Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defence system around its Fordow underground uranium enrichment facility, (More…)

Teacher in violence-torn Indian Kashmir starts makeshift classrooms

A protester prepares to throw a stone towards an Indian policeman during a protest in Srinagar against the recent killings in Kashmir

By Fayaz Bukhari

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Wedding halls and prayer rooms have been turned into classrooms in Indian-administered Kashmir (More…)