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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday that the United States may send Patriot missile systems to Turkey to use for security in the face of …

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s hard-left unions on Thursday brought workers back onto the streets in protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, but numbers were low as the fight to …

BERLIN (Reuters) – A gunman with suspected far-right links shot dead nine people, some of them migrants from Turkey, in an overnight rampage through a German city before killing himself. …

(Reuters) – In the wee hours of Jan. 8, Tehran retaliated over the U.S. killing of Iran’s most powerful general by bombarding the al-Asad air base in Iraq. Among the …

BEIRUT (Reuters) – A team of IMF experts met Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Thursday at the start of a visit to provide Lebanon with advice on how to tackle …

SYDNEY (Reuters) – More than 150 Australians arrived home on Thursday to begin two weeks of quarantine after finally disembarking a cruise ship docked in Japan where more than 600 …

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Scientists in China who studied nose and throat swabs from 18 patients infected with the new coronavirus say it behaves much more like influenza than other closely …

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s designated Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh‮ ‬on Wednesday named a new coalition government‮ ‬after reaching an agreement with Ennahda moderate Islamist Party, the biggest power in Parliament, …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Since his January 2019 arrest, President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone has repeatedly tested the patience of the federal judge who presided over his trial. On …

DUBAI (Reuters) – Two Iranians have died in hospital after testing positive for the new coronavirus in the holy Shi’ite city of Qom, the head of the city’s University of …

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that she would not interfere in the search for the next leader of her Christian Democrats (CDU) after the incumbent, …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a Turkish military operation against Syrian government forces in the Idlib region would be a worst-case scenario. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan …

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Authorities in Pakistan are investigating if exposure to soybean dust, which can cause severe allergic reactions, is responsible for at least 14 deaths and dozens of …

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s lower house of congress on Tuesday approved an increase in prison sentences for crimes of femicide and sexual abuse of minors, amid a wave of …

GENEVA (Reuters) – Children and adolescents are being bombarded with ads on social media promoting harmful products from fast food to tobacco and alcohol, according to a United Nations-backed report …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Neanderthal skeleton unearthed in an Iraqi cave already famous for fossils of these extinct cousins of our species is providing fresh evidence that they buried their …

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Clad in a beige uniform marked “3870,” the captured drug kingpin answered the Mexican prison guard’s questions calmly, barely looking up as he scrubbed black fingerprint …

PARIS (Reuters) – French drugmaker Sanofi is working with a U.S. government agency to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus from China, saying it could have a candidate ready …

BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – Government air strikes have hit hospitals and displaced persons camps in northwest Syria and killed about 300 civilians as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces press an assault against …

BERLIN (Reuters) – Storm Sabine caused insured losses of 675 million euros (562 million pounds) in Germany this month, the GDV insurance association said on Tuesday, making it the 6th …