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By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Angry residents of the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima ran riot and drove out Venezuelan immigrants on Saturday after a local restaurant...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's navy has mounted a locally built advanced defensive weapons system on one of its warships for the first time, the Iranian navy chief was quoted as...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit Pyongyang next month at the invitation of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un to attend the celebrations of the 70th...

By Jeff Mason and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump faced an unprecedented outcry from former intelligence officials on Friday after stripping the...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The protection of Palestinian civilians could be improved by the deployment of U.N.-mandated armed forces or unarmed observers, a...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed two Palestinians and wounded scores of others taking part in weekly Gaza border protests on Friday, medics said, as...

By Matt Spetalnick and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on four Myanmar military and police commanders and two army units,...

By Nathan Layne and Karen Freifeld ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - Weighing in even as a Virginia jury deliberates for a second day, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday called the...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has reached an agreement with Greece to send back migrants to the Mediterranean country if they have already applied for asylum there, a German Interior...

(Bloomberg) -- A Turkish appeals court refused to release American pastor Andrew Brunson, raising the prospect of further U.S. sanctions targeting President Recep Tayyip...

By Michael Shields ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss night watchman who ignited a furore over Holocaust victims' missing wealth two decades ago is reliving how his dream of...

By Clare Baldwin KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Mohib Bullah is not your typical human rights investigator. He chews betel and he lives in a rickety hut made of...

By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's military has expanded its bomber operations in recent years while "likely training for strikes" against the United...

By Philip Pullella and Scott Malone VATICAN CITY/BOSTON (Reuters) - The Vatican expressed "shame and sorrow" on Thursday over revelations that Roman Catholic priests in...

By Alex Dobuzinskis and Brendan O'Brien LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of U.S. newspapers on Thursday launched a coordinated defence of press freedom and a rebuke of...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution affirming support for a free press and declaring that "the press is...

LONDON (Reuters) - A doctor who worked as a physician to The Queen has been killed after colliding with a truck as he cycled through central London. Peter Fisher, 67, was riding...

LONDON (Reuters) - A French man who was running late for his flight from London to Los Angeles tried to delay it by calling police to say there was a bomb on board. Librarian...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When writer and producer Stacy Rukeyser suggested featuring a female venture capitalist looking for a husband on the Lifetime television...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The trial of two women charged with the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will continue, a Malaysian judge ruled on...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on a Russian port service agency and Chinese firms on Wednesday for aiding North Korean ships and selling alcohol and...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian court will decide on Thursday whether to continue hearing a case against two women charged with the murder of the estranged half-brother of...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A terminal of Budapest Airport was briefly shut down late on Wednesday due to an overheated container carrying an isotope, a spokesman for the Hungarian...

By Darren Staples and Sarah Young BIRMINGHAM, England/LONDON (Reuters) - A man detained on suspicion of carrying out a terrorist attack outside Britain's parliament is Salih...

By Steve Stecklow YANGON, Myanmar (Reuters) - In April, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) founder Mark Zuckerberg told U.S. senators that the social media site was hiring dozens more Burmese...

By Abdul Qadir Sediqi and Sayed Hassib KABUL (Reuters) - A Taliban attack on an Afghan military outpost killed up to 44 policemen and soldiers on Wednesday, while a separate...

LONDON (Reuters) - A 29-year-old man detained over a suspected terrorist attack outside parliament has been further arrested for attempted murder, police said on Wednesday. He had...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Israel allowed commercial goods back into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, in a sign of an easing of tensions as neighbouring Egypt pursued a...

BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's highest-ranking Buddhist monks quit as the head of the country's Buddhist association on Wednesday after facing a government...

MILAN (Reuters) - At least 35 people were killed when a bridge collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa, police said on Wednesday after firemen worked through the night looking...

By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - A New Mexico judge received death threats on Tuesday a day after she granted bail to two men and three women charged with child abuse and...

By Sue-Lin Wong and Christian Shepherd SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - When Shen Mengyu graduated with a master's degree from a top Chinese university in 2015, she could have...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Wednesday, the anniversary of...

By Charlotte Greenfield WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand school teachers went on strike on Wednesday for the first time in more than 20 years, challenging the Labour...

By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania sexually abused thousands of children over a 70-year period and silenced victims through...