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BEIJING/Tokyo (Reuters) – The China Coast Guard said on Friday it patrolled the “territorial waters” of Diaoyu Islands, also known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands, in the East China …

By Kirsty Needham and Lucy Craymer (Reuters) – A national election in the Solomon Islands, the first since Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare signed a security pact with Beijing, will be …

(Reuters) – Russia, Germany and Britain on Thursday urged countries in the Middle East to show restraint and Israel said it was preparing to “meet all its security needs” in …

By Ted Hesson and Mica Rosenberg (Reuters) -Donald Trump is blaming migrants in the U.S. illegally for fueling violent crime as part of his campaign to win back the White House, …

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -Dairy farmers in the United States are raising their defenses to try to contain the spread of bird flu: banning visitors, cutting down trees to …

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -O.J. Simpson, the American football star and actor who was sensationally acquitted in 1995 of murdering his former wife in what U.S. media dubbed the …

By Steve Gorman and Julia Harte LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter was charged with bank fraud on Thursday in federal court and accused of stealing …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. unveiled a wide range of agreements to enhance security and economic ties during …

(This April 9 story has been corrected to fix ULA executive’s first name to Tory, not Tony, in paragraph 9) By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – The U.S. Space Force and …

By James Mackenzie and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel is keeping up its war in Gaza but is also preparing for scenarios in other areas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said …

By Kanishka Singh and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chair of the Democratic-led U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena on Thursday to influential conservative legal figure Leonard Leo …

By Sarah Morland (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Thursday called for the country to take further action to stop the flow of firearms to Haiti and to halt the forced …

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Malian political parties and civil society groups jointly rejected on Thursday the ruling junta’s order to suspend political activities and vowed to mount a legal challenge to …

By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed higher on Thursday, with tech-related momentum stocks leading the charge, as fresh economic data rekindled hopes that inflation remains in …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. safety investigators said on Thursday a Ford Mustang Mach-E was using an advanced driver assistance system when it struck the rear of a stationary …

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Russian government-backed hackers have used their access to Microsoft’s email system to steal correspondence between officials and …

By Andrew Goudsward and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI is concerned about the possibility of an organized attack in the United States similar to the one that killed …

By Parisa Hafezi and Jonathan Landay DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Iran has signalled to Washington that it will respond to Israel’s attack on its Syrian embassy in a way that aims to …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chair of the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday urged President Joe Biden to block Chinese-made vehicles from the United States auto market, marking the …

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on controversial surveillance legislation on Friday, lawmakers said, two days after an initial attempt failed in …

By Arshad Mohammed and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The security and defense relationship between the U.S. and Iraq will be an important part of talks when Iraqi Prime Minister …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration is proposing to raise to $5 million the maximum fine it can impose for making misstatements to CFIUS, a powerful U.S. committee that screens foreign …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Major U.S. airlines and aviation unions on Thursday urged the Biden administration to pause approvals of additional flights between China and the United States, citing …

By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Russian missiles and drones destroyed a large electricity plant near Kyiv and hit power facilities in several regions of Ukraine on Thursday, officials said, ramping …