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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain clinched an eleventh-hour Brexit deal with the EU on Thursday, more than three years after Britons voted in a referendum to leave the bloc, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson still faces a knife-edge vote in parliament to get it approved. “Where there is a will there is a deal – we

SEOUL (Reuters) – Pulling with smooth, steady strokes along a rowing course on an artificial lake, South Korean Paralympic hopeful Ha Jae-hun is the picture of calm determination, but it has taken him four years and 21 rounds of surgery to find this peace. Former South Korean Army sergeant, first class, Ha Jae-hun, who lost

LONDON (Reuters) – British Brexit Minister Stephen Barclay said the government would comply with assurances given to a Scottish court that Prime Minister Boris Johnson would write a letter to the EU requesting a Brexit delay if a deal is not reached by Oct. 19. Britain and the EU are locked in negotiations to try

MANBIJ, Syria (Reuters) – Turkey pressed ahead with its offensive in northern Syria on Tuesday despite U.S. sanctions and growing calls for it to stop, while Syria’s Russia-backed army moved on the key city of Manbij that was abandoned by U.S. forces in Donald Trump’s retreat. Reuters journalists accompanied Syrian government forces who entered the

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate on Tuesday met Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, a former international cricket star who the prince played cricket with in London as a child. Britain’s Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, leave after meeting with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan October

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) – President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Turkey on Monday and demanded the NATO ally stop a military incursion in northeast Syria that is rapidly reshaping the battlefield of the world’s deadliest ongoing war. Trump, who gave what critics say was a de facto green light for Turkey’s assault by ordering U.S. forces

QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuadorean police battled masked men who launched homemade projectiles at them in downtown Quito on Sunday, as protesters defied a curfew that was imposed by President Lenin Moreno in a bid to quell anti-austerity unrest. Demonstrators fire a homemade weapon during a protest against Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures, in Quito,

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an interview with Al Arabiya, Sky News Arabia and RT Arabic ahead of his visit to Saudi Arabia, in Sochi, Russia, in this undated picture released on October 13, 2019. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow is not blaming U.S. President Donald Trump for failing to improve U.S.-Russian

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain remains a long way from agreeing a final Brexit deal and the next few days will be critical if it is to agree departure terms with the European Union, a Downing Street source said on Saturday. FILE PHOTO: Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seen ahead of the meeting with European Parliament

DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian government spokesman on Saturday described as a “cowardly attack” an incident that Iranian media have called the apparent targeting by missiles of an Iranian-owned oil tanker, and said Iran would respond after the facts had been studied. An undated picture shows the Iranian-owned Sabiti oil tanker sailing in Red Sea.

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Since January, the U.S. government has ordered 16,000 migrants under 18, including nearly 500 infants, to wait with their families in Mexico for U.S. immigration court hearings, a Reuters analysis of government data found. Along the U.S.-Mexico border, babies and toddlers are living in high-crime cities – often in crowded shelters

OSLO (Reuters) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his peacemaking efforts which ended two decades of hostility with longtime enemy Eritrea. Though Africa’s youngest leader still faces big challenges, he has in under two years in power begun political and economic reforms that promise a better

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. and Chinese negotiators wrapped up a first day of trade talks in more than two months on Thursday as business groups expressed optimism they might be able to ease a bitter 15-month trade war and delay a U.S. tariff hike scheduled for next week. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and

BERKELEY, Calif. (Reuters) – Marveny Suchite lives with her American immigration sponsor in a bungalow here on a tree-lined street. A neighbor’s yard sign reads: “No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor.” Guatemalan asylum-seeker Marveny Suchite poses for a portrait outside the home in which she is staying in Berkeley, California,

LONDON (Reuters) – London City Airport was braced for disruption on Thursday after climate-change protesters Extinction Rebellion vowed to occupy its terminal and shut down operations for three days as part of its action in the British capital. FILE PHOTO: Passenger jets stand on the runway of London City Airport, in London, Britain February 12,

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Justice Ministry on Wednesday formally labeled opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption group a “foreign agent”, a move the Kremlin’s critics said was part of a coordinated government attack on the group. FILE PHOTO: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny delivers a speech during a rally to demand the release of jailed protesters,