US and World News

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most famous opposition leader, on Friday shared letters showing how he has poked fun at prison authorities for several months with …

By Jessie Pang and Laurie Chen HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) -As restrictions in Hong Kong have snuffed out what were once the largest vigils marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, cities …

By Aleksandra Michalska and Michael Martina NEW YORK (Reuters) -The hope for a “free China” lives on in a new Manhattan museum dedicated to China’s 1989 suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations …

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces in Kyiv said on Friday they shot down 36 Russian missiles and drones in and around the capital overnight, with two people injured …

By Valentyn Ogirenko and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – A nine-year-old Ukrainian girl, her mother and another woman were killed in a Russian missile strike on Kyiv on Thursday after …

(This June 1 story has been refiled to fix a tech glitch, with no changes to the text) By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden tripped and fell after handing out the last diploma at a graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado on Thursday, but got …

(Reuters) – The Biden administration said on Friday it would stop issuing new oil and gas drilling leases within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historic Park, a region …

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Trafficking of synthetic drugs in East and Southeast Asia is surging, with new smuggling routes for methamphetamine emerging and ketamine production expanding, the United Nations said on …

By Richard Cowan and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed bipartisan legislation backed by President Joe Biden that lifts the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, …

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A man visiting St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday stripped off his clothes and stood naked on the church’s main altar in what appeared to be a …

By Valentyn Ogirenko and Guy Faulconbridge KYIV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday it had repelled more cross-border attacks from Ukraine while its aerial assaults on Kyiv killed another three …

By Tim Kelly, Nobuhiro Kubo, Yukiko Toyoda and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) – The United States is seeking to secure supplies of TNT in Japan for 155mm artillery shells, as …

By Jonathan Landay and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States said it will stop providing Russia some notifications required under the New START arms control treaty from Thursday, including …