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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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Two women lynched, set on fire in Congo as ethnic tensions flare

Congolese soldiers stand guard as civilians chant slogans during a protest against the government's failure to stop the killings and inter-ethnic tensions in the town of Butembo

By Kenny Katombe

BUTEMBO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Two Hutu women were dragged out of a minibus, lynched (More…)

Migrant relocation plan must be bigger and move faster according to U.N.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi meets with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the Maximos Mansion in Athens

By Karolina Tagaris

ATHENS (Reuters) – A European Union scheme to relocate migrants and refugees from frontline countries Greece and (More…)

To deter refugees, Norway readies fence on ex cold war border

Two migrants on bicycles cross the border between Norway and Russia in Storskog near Kirkenes in Northern Norway

By Alister Doyle

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway is putting up a steel fence at a remote Arctic border post with (More…)

North Korea fires submarine launched ballistic missile

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides on the spot the underwater test-fire of strategic submarine ballistic missile

By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired a submarine-launched missile on Wednesday that flew about (More…)

Slow EU aid puts Syrian children’s lives on hold in Turkey

Muhammed Mazin Mekansi poses with his family at their home in Ankara

By Dasha Afanasieva

ANKARA (Reuters) – Their faces so burned by a rocket blast they cannot fully close their eyes, (More…)

Powerful Earthquake strikes Myanmar, at least 3 dead

Two men look at a collapsed entrance of a pagoda after an earthquake in Bagan

By Shwe Yee Saw Myint and Aung Hla Tun

YANGON (Reuters) – A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook central Myanmar (More…)

World’s largest airship crash lands in England on test flight

The Airlander 10 hybrid airship makes its maiden flight at Cardington Airfield in Britain

LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s longest aircraft, the Airlander 10 airship, has crash-landed after a test flight in Bedfordshire, central (More…)

Study shows extent of brain damage from ZIKA infection

MRI images obtained in the case of an 18-year-old woman with confirmed Zika virus infection in Brazil

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A report released on Tuesday shows in graphic detail the kind of damage Zika infections can do (More…)

Powerful earthquake in Italy overnight, killing at least 73, thousands homeless

A man is carried away after having been rescued alive from the ruins following an earthquake in Amatrice

By Steve Scherer

ACCUMOLI, Italy (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake devastated a string of mountainous towns in central Italy on (More…)

Russians suspected in hack of New York Times, other U.S. media

The sun peaks over the New York Times Building in New York

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI and other U.S. security agencies are investigating cyber breaches targeting reporters at the New York (More…)