US and World News

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A crackdown by U.S. drug wholesalers in response to the opioid crisis is preventing some pharmacists from dispensing a combination of stimulants and sedatives …

By Philip Blenkinsop and Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Parliament moved on Monday to strip one of its members of her role as vice president after she and …

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider how strictly to interpret the landmark Title IX civil rights law’s protections for gender equality in college …

By Eduardo Baptista and Josh Ye BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) -People queued outside fever clinics at Chinese hospitals for COVID-19 checks on Monday, a new sign of the rapid spread of …

By Brian Ellsworth MIAMI (Reuters) – A U.S. court on Monday began hearing testimony from Venezuelan officials on the diplomatic status of Alex Saab, an ally of President Nicolas Maduro …

(Reuters) – A Reuters investigation published last week revealed that the Nigerian army has run a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast since at least 2013. …

LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Harry appeared to say Britain’s royal household was prepared to lie to protect his elder brother Prince William, in a new trailer released on Monday for …

By Felix Light (Reuters) – Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer freed on Thursday after 14 years in U.S. custody in exchange for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, has joined …

KABUL (Reuters) -Armed men opened fire on Monday inside a hotel in central Kabul popular with Chinese nationals in an attack that ended when at least three gunmen were killed …

(This story has been refiled to say that the laws will be enforceable in three years in paragraph 9.) JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia summoned a United Nations official on Monday …

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel sought to lay to rest on Monday a decades-old debate about one of its most famous spies, Eli Cohen, saying his capture and execution in Syria …

By Vincent West ORDUNA, Spain (Reuters) – Forensic archaeologists have exhumed 53 bodies from shallow graves in the Basque town of Orduna that were dug in 1941, as part of …

KYIV (Reuters) – U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths arrived in Ukraine on a four-day trip on Monday as officials raced to repair energy facilities hit by Russian air strikes that …

By Kanishka Singh and Sneha Bhowmik (Reuters) -Defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake sued Arizona elections officials on Friday to challenge the counting and certification of the November electoral contest …

BEIJING (Reuters) -U.S. sanctions on two senior Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses in Tibet were illegal and seriously harmed Sino-U.S. ties, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday. …

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has slashed the number of locations deemed at high risk of wider COVID outbreaks, re-opening locked down areas including one hosting a key factory of an …

By Andrea Shalal and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Biden administration officials will meet early Monday to discuss next steps in securing the release of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s ambassador to Moscow said Britain’s royal family had been recommended not to have any contacts with the Russian embassy in London, the Izvestia newspaper reported. Asked …

LIMA (Reuters) – Two teens were killed and four people injured in Peru on Sunday during protests demanding the country hold general elections following the ouster of former President Pedro …

By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman (Reuters) – NASA’s Orion capsule barreled through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around …

By Nick Starkov KYIV(Reuters) – Ukraine’s top security officials have ordered punitive measures against seven senior clerics, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, part of a crackdown on a branch …