US and World News

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -The United States marked the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday with traditional feasts, parades and American football, taking a moment to celebrate in a week shadowed by …

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A court at a Vatican corruption trial on Thursday heard a secretly recorded telephone call between the main defendant, embattled Cardinal Angelo Becciu, …

By Toby Davis DOHA (Reuters) -Cristiano Ronaldo drew a line under a tumultuous tournament build-up as he wrote his name in the record books to become the first man to …

By Juliette Portala (Reuters) – Summer heatwaves in France, Germany, Spain and Britain led to more than 20,000 “excess” deaths, a report compiling official figures said on Thursday. Temperatures hit …

By A. Ananthalakshmi, Mei Mei Chu and Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as prime minister on Thursday, capping a three-decade political journey from …

By Michael Kahn, Anna Koper and Robert Muller PRAGUE/WARSAW (Reuters) – Eastern Europe’s arms industry is churning out guns, artillery shells and other military supplies at a pace not seen …

By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s only Black lawmaker suspended himself from his left-wing party on Thursday after his family was accused of mismanaging funds and exploiting staff at …

By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -France’s lower house on Thursday voted by a large majority to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution, with MPs on the left and centre saying …

ZURICH (Reuters) – A Swiss political party is calling for FIFA’s status as a non-profit organisation to be revoked in Switzerland, where the football governing body is registered. “FIFA is …

By Ludwig Burger and Maggie Fick (Reuters) -Recent uptake of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses in the European Union has been “rather disappointing,” an official said on Thursday, amid concerns that …

(Fixes byline) By David Chkhikvishvili TBILISI (Reuters) – When Laura Fernandez’s fellow dancers at the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow began discussing the war in Ukraine, she knew she would have …

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s new Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said his swearing in was a change that Malaysians have waited for and pledged to keep Islam as the official …

(Reuters) – Malaysia’s new prime minister, 75-year-old Anwar Ibrahim, was sworn in on Thursday, bringing to a close his three-decade quest for the job that had eluded him time and …

By Daro Sulakauri KHURVALETI, Georgia (Reuters) – For displaced villagers living near the border of Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia, the war in Ukraine has brought back terrifying memories …

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) – Turkish drones are targeting key oil installations run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria, three local sources said, in air …

KYIV (Reuters) -Power was gradually being restored to Ukrainian cities including the capital Kyiv on Thursday, a day after Russian missile strikes caused Kyiv’s biggest outages in nine months of …

By Aziz El Yaakoubi, Pavel Polityuk and Jonathan Saul RIYADH (Reuters) – Representatives from Russia and Ukraine met in the United Arab Emirates last week to discuss the possibility of …

LONDON (Reuters) – Postal workers, teachers and university staff across Britain went on strike on Thursday to demand better pay, with warnings that there will be more industrial action and …

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has cancelled 200 out of some 15,500 permits issued to Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to work in its territory after a labourer was accused of …

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Thursday cast this weekend’s local elections as a referendum on her leadership, saying a vote for her party’s candidates was a vote …

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Two bombs exploded at bus stops on Jerusalem’s outskirts on Wednesday, killing a 16-year-old boy and wounding at least 14 people in what appeared to …

By Gerardo Arbaiza SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele promised on Wednesday to tighten security around major cities, the latest escalation of an eight-month-old war against gang violence …

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea on Thursday denounced Seoul’s push to impose additional sanctions on Pyongyang after its missile launches, calling South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and …

By Moira Warburton and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski and Democratic Representative Mary Peltola of Alaska both won reelection against opponents backed by Donald Trump on Wednesday, …