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By Michael Holden and Kate Holton LONDON – A beaming Queen Elizabeth waved to cheering crowds massed outside Buckingham Palace on Thursday as Britain kicked off four days of pomp, …

By Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. – President Joe Biden publicly acknowledged on Friday that he may travel to Saudi Arabia soon, a trip that multiple sources …

By Michael Holden and Kate Holton LONDON -Horse-loving Queen Elizabeth was thanked for being “in the saddle” for 70 years as head of state at a service on Friday to …

By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) -The power grid in the Central United States could be forced to impose rotating blackouts on some of the hottest days of the summer due to …

‘A Source Of Concern’: Jobs Growth Stalls, Unemployment Rises In May Thomas Catenacci on June 3, 2022 The U.S. economy added 390,000 jobs in May while the unemployment rate was …

(Reuters) – A man who escaped from a Texas prison last month died in a shootout with police hours after becoming the prime suspect in the murder of a Houston …

By Michael Holden LONDON – Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were greeted with cheers and some jeers as they joined the royal family at a thanksgiving service on Friday …

By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE – Prosecutors investigating war crimes cases in Ukraine are examining allegations of the forcible deportation of children to Russia since …

DUBAI – Iran vowed on Friday to show an “immediate response” to any move against it by the United States and European countries at the U.N. nuclear watchdog IAEA, Iranian …

By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – The Biden administration should rely less on liquid fuels like ethanol and focus more on cleaner technology like electric vehicles (EVs) and advanced biofuels when …

By Michael Erman (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson and AbbVie’s big-selling leukemia drug Imbruvica in combination with standard treatment kept a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in check for more …

GENEVA -United Nations officials warned on Friday that a protracted war in Ukraine threatened a hunger crisis in the country and around the world. Marking 100 days since Russia invaded …

By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON -Declaring “Enough, enough!” U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Congress to ban assault weapons, expand background checks and implement other gun …

NEW DELHI – Some officials in India are ignoring or even supporting rising attacks on people and places of worship in the country, a U.S. official said late on Thursday, …

By Dan Williams JERUSALEM – Israel told the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Friday it would prefer a diplomatic resolution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme but it could take …

By Tom Allard and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA(Reuters) -Almost 2,500 mortar shells from Serbia bought for Indonesia’s spy agency last year were converted to be air-dropped, and some were used in …

By Ted Hesson, Daina Beth Solomon and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON – More than a year into U.S. President Joe Biden’s sweeping effort to tackle the “root causes” of migration with …

By James Oliphant WASHINGTON – Fed-up Democrats in San Francisco and Los Angeles, liberal-leaning California cities reeling from COVID-era spikes in homicides and gun violence, may punish their own party …

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO – A larger-than-life politician, Ontario premier Doug Ford beat back criticism of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic to win a second term for his …

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK -Michael Avenatti, the brash California lawyer who took on then-President Donald Trump, was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison for defrauding his best-known …

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL -Officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan met in Seoul on Friday to prepare for “all contingencies” amid signs North Korea is preparing to …

SEOUL – China and Russia are clearly not interested in working with the United States to manage North Korea’s nuclear and missile arsenal, Washington’s nuclear envoy said on Friday, after …

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that current gun control efforts are not about taking away anyone’s guns, noting that too many everyday places in America have …

By Michael Noble Jr. TULSA, Okla. – A man who fatally shot five people including himself at an Oklahoma medical building, after buying an assault-style rifle on the same day, …

(Reuters) -A man shot and killed two women in the parking lot of a church in Iowa state on Thursday and then turned the gun on himself, police said, adding …