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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union countries will make another push to agree on a ninth package of sanctions against Moscow on Thursday after Poland and Lithuania blocked a deal over concerns …

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A routine spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) was called off as it was about to begin after flight controllers noticed …

(Reuters) -A major winter storm pounded the heart of the United States on Tuesday, bringing heavy snow and freezing rain to the Northern Plains and spawning thunderstorms and destructive tornadoes …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday it had received an apology from the Vatican over Pope Francis’ comments last month that Russian soldiers from some ethnic minority groups were …

By Nathan Layne NEWTOWN, Conn. (Reuters) -Ten years after one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history, residents of the Connecticut town where it took place marked Wednesday’s anniversary …

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents interdicted three narcotic smuggling events in two days, resulting in four arrests. On December 13, RGV agents working with …

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods, accused Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp not …

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Peru announced a nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday, granting police special powers and limiting freedoms including the right to assembly, after a week of …

By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) -A former Twitter Inc manager convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia by sharing user data several years ago and potentially exposing users to persecution …

(Reuters) -Twitter Inc suspended an account tracking its owner Elon Musk’s private jet in real-time, with the billionaire threatening legal action against the account’s operator after saying his son had …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate late on Wednesday passed by voice vote a bill to bar federal employees from using Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok on government-owned …

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A decision on whether the Afghan Taliban administration and the Myanmar junta can send a United Nations ambassador to New York has been …

By Jose Luis Gonzalez, Jackie Botts and Daina Beth Solomon CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Many of the hundreds of migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez into …

By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden marked the 10 years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on Wednesday by saying …

By Joe Bavier, Abdi Sheikh, Aditi Bhandari and Michael Ovaska MOGADISHU (Reuters) – In October, Nadifa Abdi Isak brought her malnourished daughters to hospital in Mogadishu. That day, a nurse …

By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Survivors of mass shootings targeting U.S. LGBT nightclubs detailed the violence they endured and criticized inflammatory political rhetoric in a congressional hearing on Wednesday. …

By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Puerto Ricans could move a step closer to a referendum on whether the island should become a U.S. state, an independent country or have …

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Iran was ousted from a United Nations women’s group on Wednesday for policies contrary to the rights of women and girls, a move proposed …

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -A San Francisco police officer testified on Wednesday that he witnessed the attack on U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband when the suspect in …

By Brendan O’Brien and Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) -The bodies of a mother and her young son were recovered on Wednesday hours after a tornado destroyed their home as it ripped …

By Sybille de La Hamaide and Clotaire Achi PARIS (Reuters) -Supporters poured into Paris’s freezing Champs-Elysees boulevard on Wednesday after a World Cup semi-final between France and Morocco which for …

HONG KONG (Reuters) – China Meheco Group Co Ltd said on Wednesday it signed an agreement with Pfizer Inc to import and distribute the U.S. drugmaker’s oral COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid …

MASSENA, N.Y. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Port of Massena arrested a 33-year-old male Native American Indian who had an active New York State bench …