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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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Tiny German bank breaks taboo by charging rich clients for deposits

Raiffeisenbank Gmund

By Alexander Hübner

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A small cooperative bank in the Bavarian Alps is breaking a German taboo by (More…)

Canada security questioned after FBI tip thwarts attack

Police photograph of taxi where suicide bomber detonated in Canada

By Andrea Hopkins

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Aaron Driver first came to the attention of Canadian officials in late 2014 after (More…)

Series of blasts hit resort towns in southern Thailand

Line of police looking for bombs

By Prapan Chankaew

HUA HIN, Thailand (Reuters) – A series of blasts hit three of the most popular tourist resorts (More…)

Russia announces war games after accusing Ukraine of terrorist plot

Russian President Putin chairs meeting with members of Security Council to discuss additional security measures for Crimea after clashes on

By Andrew Osborn

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin summoned his security council and the Russian Navy announced war games in (More…)

Military attaches, diplomats flee Turkey’s post-coup inquiry

A view of the building of Turkish Embassy in Athens, Greece,

By Orhan Coskun and Ece Toksabay

ANKARA (Reuters) – Two Turkish military attaches in Greece fled to Italy, others were (More…)

Cayman Islands report second locally transmitted ZIKA infection

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are seen inside Oxitec laboratory in Campinas, Brazil,

GEORGE TOWN (Reuters) – Two people have contracted the Zika virus locally in the Cayman Islands, the health department said (More…)

Blast wounds 13 in Pakistani city on edge after big large suicide attack

Security officials gather at the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta, Pakistan,

By Asad Hashim and Gul Yusufzai

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – A roadside bomb hit a Pakistani security vehicle and wounded (More…)

Intensifying fight for Aleppo chokes civilian population

A Free Syrian Army tank fires in Ramousah area, southwest of Aleppo, Syria

By John Davison

BEIRUT (Reuters) – An upsurge of intense fighting around Aleppo has killed dozens of Syrians in the (More…)

Delta cancels hundreds more flights, expects normal operations soon

Passengers check in at a counter of Delta Air Lines in Mexico City, Mexico, August 8, 2016.

(Reuters) – Delta Air Lines Inc on Wednesday canceled more than 250 flights and upended thousands of travelers’ plans for (More…)

Vietnam moves new rocket launchers into disputed South China Sea

Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in this still image from video taken by a P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft provided by the United States Navy

By Greg Torode

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Vietnam has discreetly fortified several of its islands in the disputed South China (More…)