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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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U.S. to sanction cyber attackers, cites Russia, China

US sanctioning cyber attackers

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will use sanctions against those behind cyber attacks that target transportation systems or the (More…)

Turkish troops hunt remaining coup plotters as crackdown widens

Turkish soldiers hunting for coup plotters

By Daren Butler and Orhan Coskun

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish special forces backed by helicopters, drones and the navy hunted (More…)

U.S. tells China that anti-missile system not a threat

THAAD missile defense system

BEIJING (Reuters) – South Korea’s decision to deploy an advanced U.S. anti-missile defense system does not threaten China’s security, a (More…)

Behind Democrats’ email leak, U.S. experts see a Russian subplot

By Mark Hosenball and Arshad Mohammed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If the Russian government is behind the theft and release of (More…)

Suicide bombers hit peacekeeping base in Somali capital, 13 dead: police

Suicide bombing in Somalia

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Suicide bombers killed at least 13 people at the gates of the African Union’s main peacekeeping base (More…)

Nepal quake survivors struggle with debt, raising trafficking fears

By Rina Chandran

KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hundreds of Nepalis who had borrowed money to rebuild their lives after (More…)

Natural disasters in China kill more than 800 since June

Flooding in China one of the many natural disasters

BEIJING (Reuters) – More than 800 people have died and about 200 are missing in a series of natural disasters (More…)

Islamist knifemen slit priest’s throat in church in France

Police outside of French Catholic Church where hostages have been taken

By Noemie Olive

SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France (Reuters) – Knife-wielding attackers interrupted a church service in France, forced the priest to his (More…)

Suicide bombing north of Baghdad kills 16, IS claims attack

Destroyed vehicles are seen at the site of a suicide car bomber in Khalis, north of Baghdad, Iraq,

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide car bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 16 people including a group of women and (More…)

Venezuelan schoolchildren express hunger in drawings

A drawing made during a lesson at a school shows what a student ate during the course of a day in Caracas, Venezuela July 14, 2016. The student wrote, "Ate corn cake with cheese for breakfast; had spaghetti with egg for lunch and a cookie for dinner." The student said that pizza was their favourite dish.

By Daniel Kai

CARACAS (Reuters) – When children at a Catholic-run school in a poor neighborhood of Venezuela’s Caracas capital (More…)