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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

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Turkey fires on U.S.-backed Kurdish militia in Syria offensive

Turkish army tanks and military personnel are stationed in Karkamis on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern Gaziantep province, Turkey,

By Humeyra Pamuk and Umit Bektas

KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish troops fired on U.S.-backed Kurdish militia fighters in northern (More…)

Italy quake death toll hits 267, state funeral planned

A drone photo shows the damages following an earthquake in Pescara del Tronto, central Italy, August 25

By Steve Scherer and Gabriele Pileri

PESCARA DEL TRONTO, Italy (Reuters) – Hopes of finding more survivors faded on Friday (More…)

Iran vessels make ‘high speed intercept’ of U.S. ship

Footage taken aboard the USS Nitze of Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessels

By Idrees Ali

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vessels “harassed” a U.S. warship on (More…)

China expresses concern about Indian missiles on border

A signboard is seen from the Indian side of the Indo-China border at Bumla, in Arunachal Pradesh,

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday that it hoped India could put more efforts into regional peace (More…)

North Korea’s Kim declares sub missile launch ‘greatest success’

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is pictured during a test-fire of strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile

By Jack Kim

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (More…)

Without aid, 49,000 children will die this year in northeast Nigeria

Chadian refugee Fatime Hassan, 7, poses for a picture in Darnaim refugee camp, Lake Chad region, Chad

LAGOS (Reuters) – Nearly half a million children around Lake Chad face “severe acute malnutrition” due to drought and a (More…)

Eastern India struggles to evacuate reluctant villagers as floods wreak havoc

People stand on a partially submerged house as they wait to receive food parcels being distributed by a Indian Air Force helicopter on the outskirts of Allahabad,

By Jatindra Dash

BHUBANESWAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Authorities in eastern India are struggling to evacuate more than 100,000 people (More…)

Gun, bomb attack on American University in Kabul kills 12

tudents walk toward a police vehicle after they were rescued from the site of an attack at the American University of Afghanistan in

By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi

KABUL (Reuters) – Twelve people, including seven students, were killed in an attack on (More…)

Italy quake death toll nears 250 as rescuers search demolished towns

Rescuers work at a collapsed building following an earthquake in Amatrice

By Steve Scherer and Gabriele Pileri

AMATRICE, Italy (Reuters) – The death toll from a devastating earthquake in central Italy (More…)

At least 120 killed as quake flattens towns in central Italy

rescuers helping those in Italian quake

By Steve Scherer

ACCUMOLI, Italy (Reuters) – An earthquake flattened towns in central Italy in the early hours of Wednesday, (More…)