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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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Turkish forces deepen push into Syria, draw U.S. rebuke

Turkish armoured personnel carriers drive towards the border in Karkamis on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern Gaziantep province, Turkey, August 27,

By Lisa Barrington and Umit Bektas

BEIRUT/KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish-backed forces pushed deeper into northern Syria on Monday and (More…)

International experts in Egypt to inspect Metrojet wreckage

An Egyptian man puts flowers near debris at the crash site of a Russian airliner in al-Hasanah area at El Arish city, north Egypt, November 1, 2015.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Experts from Russia and Germany are in Egypt to inspect the wreckage of a Russian passenger plane (More…)

U.S. Drone enters Iran’s airspace, leaves after warning

A model of a military drone is seen in front of an U.S. flag as protesters rally against climate change, ahead of the Democratic National Convention, in Philadelphia

ANKARA (Reuters) – Iran’s military detected a U.S. drone entering Iranian airspace on Monday and issued a warning for it (More…)

Singapore confirms 41 cases locally transmitted ZIKA virus

Contractor fogs a condominium garden in Singapore in an effort to kill mosquitoes

By Marius Zaharia

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of locally transmitted ZIKA virus, mostly among foreign construction (More…)

More bodies located beneath rubble in Italy quake zone

A rescue worker and a dog search among debris following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy,

By Iona Serrapica and Miran Jelenek

AMATRICE, Italy (Reuters) – Rescuers believe they have found more bodies buried deep in (More…)

More than 70 tents burned down in Iraqi refugee camp

Tents that were destroyed by fire are seen at Yahayawa refugee camp near Kirkuk, Iraq,

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – More than 70 tents were destroyed by fire on Monday in the refugee camp of Yahayawa, near (More…)

Islamic State Car bomb kills 10 in Somalia

A Somali policeman looks at the wreckage of a vehicle destroyed by a car bomb at the Banadir beach restaurant at Lido beach in Somalia's capital Mogadishu,

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The death toll from an attack late on Thursday by Islamic militants on a seaside restaurant in (More…)

FDA warns former Sun Pharma U.S. drug factory over quality concerns

The corporate logo of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

MUMBAI (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has pulled up a former Sun Pharmaceutical drug factory for “knowingly” (More…)

U.S. aid to Pakistan shrinks amid mounting frustration over militants

A State Department contractor adjust a Pakistan national flag before a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on the sidelines of the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism at the State Department in Washington February 19, 2015.

By Idrees Ali

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pakistan’s continued support for resurgent militant groups hostile to the United States, coupled with (More…)

Migrant influx pushes German population growth to highest since 1992

A woman wears an Islamic headdress while visiting Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germ

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s population registered its biggest increase in more than 20 years in 2015, data showed on Friday, (More…)