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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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Bodies found off coast of Libya as migrant toll climbs: IOM

Migrants await rescue in dinghy

GENEVA (Reuters) – The bodies of 120 migrants believed to have been trying to reach Italy by boat from Libya (More…)

Death Toll in Baghdad bombing rises to 324

A man lights a candle at the site after a suicide bombing in the Karrada shopping area, in Baghdad, Iraq July 3, 2016.

By Ahmed Rasheed

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The death toll from a suicide bombing in central Baghdad on July 3 has (More…)

Islamic State calls on members to carry out jihad in Russia

An Islamic State flag is seen in this picture illustration taken February 18, 2016. Picture taken February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Dado

CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamic State called on its group members to carry out jihad in Russia in a nine-minute YouTube (More…)

The dark side of Philippines popular drug war

Jennelyn Olaires, 26, cradles the body of her partner, who was killed on a street by a vigilante group, according to police, in a spate of drug related killings in Pasay city, Metro Manila, Philippines

By Czar Dancel

MANILA (Reuters) – When the image of Jennelyn Olaires weeping as she cradled the body of her (More…)

Thai activists mother charged under insult law over facebook post

Patnaree Chankij, the mother of an anti-junta activist, is escorted by police as she arrives at a military court in Bangkok, Thailand

BANGKOK (Reuters) – The mother of a leading activist against the military junta in Thailand was charged on Monday with (More…)

Turkey captures commandos who tried to seize Erdogan

Turkish gendarmeries escort fugitive commandos who were involved in a bid to seize President Erdogan during a failed coup attempt last month

By Daren Butler and Yesim Dikmen

ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish special forces captured a group of rebel commandos who (More…)

More locally transmitted ZIKA in U.S. expected

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

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States will likely see more cases of local Zika virus transmission going forward, a (More…)

Up to one million people could flee battle for Iraq’s Mosul

Smoke rises after airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State militants in a village east of Mosul, Iraq

By Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA (Reuters) – Up to 1 million people could be driven from their homes in northern Iraq (More…)

Turkey shakes up armed forces, U.S. says purges harming cooperation

Turkish soldiers detain Staff Sergeant Erkan Cikat, one of the missing military personnel suspected of being involved in the coup attempt, in Marmaris, Turkey

By Tulay Karadeniz and Seda Sezer

ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan angrily rejected Western criticism of purges under way (More…)

French church attacker: from troubled child to altar killer

This still image taken from video shows the two men, Abdel-Malik Nabil Petitjean and Adel Kermiche, behind the church attack in Normandy

By Michel Rose

SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France (Reuters) – Adel Kermiche was an attention-seeking child whose behavioral problems frequently led him to (More…)