US and World News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Monday urged de-escalation of violence in Syria, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement, after tit-for-tat attacks by Turkey’s military …

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – Debate is brewing in South Korea over efforts to scrap a decades-old ban on North Korean media, as changing attitudes fuel renewed calls to …

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia should sanction Myanmar’s military government and the regime’s bankers, Sean Turnell, the Australian economist and adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in his …

By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army is accelerating its weapons acquisition process to speed through a backlog of contracts needed to replenish U.S. stocks of weapons depleted …

(Reuters) -A sports utility vehicle crashed through the front window of an Apple retail store near Boston on Monday before coming to rest at the rear of the showroom, leaving …

DOHA (Reuters) – A U.S. journalist said he was briefly detained on Monday when he tried to enter a World Cup stadium in Qatar while wearing a rainbow shirt in …

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s real estate company began mounting a defense on Monday in its criminal trial on charges including tax fraud after …

LISBON (Reuters) – The recreational use of nitrous oxide, also known as “laughing gas”, is on the rise in Europe among young people, producing worrying numbers of poisonings, the European …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two Estonian citizens were arrested in Tallinn, Estonia, on an 18-count indictment for their alleged involvement in a $575 million cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering …

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – The attack at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub by a suspected gunman who was arrested last year in connection with a bomb threat has renewed questions …

By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu won a defamation lawsuit on Monday against a predecessor who had alleged that he, his wife and his son were …

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear former Royal Bank of Scotland managing director Victor Hong’s bid to collect a U.S. government whistleblower award of …

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine narrowly escaped disaster during fighting at the weekend that rocked Europe’s largest atomic power plant with a barrage of shells, some falling near reactors …

BORODYANKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Renowned graffiti artist Banksy unveiled a work in the Ukrainian town of Borodyanka, which had been occupied by Russia until April and heavily damaged by fighting …

By Sabine Siebold, Anthony Deutsch and Andrius Sytas (Reuters) – Europe is waking up to a new need to defend itself since Russia invaded Ukraine. As children in Lithuania headed …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, said on Sunday he would form a select committee on China if he is elected speaker of …

By Johan Purnomo and Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana CIANJUR, Indonesia (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake killed more than 160 people in Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday, with rescuers searching for …

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away bids by a public school district in Virginia and the University of Toledo in Ohio to avoid …

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear California nursing home operator Glenhaven Healthcare’s bid to avoid a lawsuit filed in state court over the …

By Danielle Broadway and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Superstar singer and songwriter Taylor Swift won all six trophies she was contending for on Sunday at the American Music Awards, …

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by Black and Hispanic voters accusing the Republican-led Texas legislature of intentionally redrawing a state …

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) -Washington will defend its oldest treaty ally, the Philippines, if it comes under attack in the South China Sea, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris pledged …

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand’s highest court ruled on Monday that the country’s current voting age of 18 was discriminatory, forcing parliament to discuss whether it should be …

By Sarah Wu TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is planning to produce chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology at its new factory in the U.S. state of Arizona but the plans …