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Pompeo warns Iran on nuclear arms; hopes military force will never be needed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday warned Iran not to pursue nuclear weapons, saying it would face the "wrath of the entire world" if it did so, but added that he hoped it would never be necessary for the...
Pentagon indefinitely suspends some training exercises with South Korea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and South Korea have agreed to indefinitely suspend two exchange program training exercises, the Pentagon said on Friday, in the aftermath of the summit earlier this month between U.S. President Donald Trump a...
No drugs in U.S. celebrity chef Bourdain's body when he died: prosecutor
(This version of the June 22 story was corrected to show traces of alcohol, medicines were found)
Turkey's Erdogan, main rival stage final election rallies
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan and his main challenger, Muharrem Ince, made a final push for support at rival rallies in Istanbul on Saturday, a day before presidential and parliamentary elections widely viewed as the most crucial in T...
Parted at U.S. border by Trump policy, migrants seek their children
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lilian Merida-Galicia and her 7-year-old daughter were apprehended after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and separated by U.S. officials in mid-May.
Firefighters quell big blaze near London's Euston train station
(Reuters) - A large fire in a pub near London's Euston train station was brought under control on Friday evening and there were no reports of casualties, the British capital's fire brigade said.
Assad defies United States, presses assault in southwest Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the country's southwest on Friday for the first time in a year, a war monitor and rebel officials said, in defiance of U.S. demands that President Basha...
Trump greets EU trade reprisals with threat of steep auto tariff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to escalate a trade war with Europe by imposing a 20 percent tariff on all U.S. imports of European Union-assembled cars.
Trump urges Republican lawmakers to drop immigration bill until election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers on Friday to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections, sending mixed signals to his party amid an ongoing crisis over...
Jackson family patriarch Joe reported gravely ill in hospital
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joe Jackson, patriarch of the singing Jackson family, was reported on Friday to be hospitalized with a serious, possibly terminal illness.
Trump urges Republican lawmakers to drop immigration bill effort
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers on Friday to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections, sending mixed signals to his party amid an ongoing crisis over...
Republicans aim to debate immigration bill next week, ignoring Trump plea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representative still plan to bring an immigration bill up for a vote next week, despite President Donald Trump's urgings on Friday to drop the effort until after November's elec...
Trump threatens 20 percent U.S. tariff on EU car imports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to escalate a trade war with Europe by imposing a 20 percent tariff on all U.S. imports of European Union-assembled cars, a month after the administration launched an investigation in...
High Court rules against gender-neutral passports
LONDON (Reuters) - A campaigner has lost a legal bid to force the British government to introduce gender-neutral passports.
After immigration scandal, Britain remembers Windrush 70 years on
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain marked 70 years since the first post-war migrants from the Caribbean arrived on the Empire Windrush with a thanksgiving service on Friday which took on extra meaning after many were revealed to have been wrongly identified...
Wall Street opens higher as financials lead
(Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened higher on Friday with the Dow ending its 8-day losing streak as bank stocks gained after passing the Federal Reserve's annual regulatory stress test.
OPEC agrees modest hike in oil supply after Iran softens stance
VIENNA (Reuters) - OPEC agreed on Friday on a modest increase in oil production from July after its leader Saudi Arabia persuaded arch-rival Iran to cooperate amid calls from major consumers to help reduce the price of crude and avoid a supply shorta...
North and South Korea agree to round of reunions of divided families
SEOUL (Reuters) - Delegations from North and South Korea agreed on Friday to arrange the first reunions in three years of some of the families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.
Trump urges Republican lawmakers to drop immigration effort
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday Republicans in Congress should drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections.
Wall Street Week Ahead: Supercharged telecom sector could become investor favorite
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An overhauled telecommunications sector featuring most of the so-called FANG stocks could debut as Wall Street's hottest bet when it kicks off in September, boosted by a rising wave of media and television acquisitions.