By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Magnetars are among the universe's most extreme objects - a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic fields. Once in a while, they produce enormous ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Wednesday accused the United States of having a policy of double standards on human rights, saying Washington's annual rights report failed to reflect Israel's assaults in Gaza. Turkey's foreign ministry said in a ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Former Mexico City mayor and ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum increased her lead in the race for the presidency, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday, some 40 days before the election on June 2. An April 10-13 poll ...

BENGALURU (Reuters) - India is inspecting facilities of spice makers MDH and Everest for compliance with quality standards after sales of some of their products were halted in Hong Kong and Singapore for allegedly containing high levels of a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden secured the backing of another union on Wednesday as the organization representing American construction workers lined up behind the Democratic incumbent and called Donald Trump a dangerous threat to the ...

By Andreas Rinke and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's domestic spy agency told companies on Wednesday they should be on guard against industrial espionage by Beijing, warning them not to be naive or over-reliant on China. The warning ...

By Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted the first EU-wide rules on combating domestic abuse and violence against women. HOW IT WORKS The new legislation - which passed with 522 in favour, 27 ...

By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) - A criminal case against the governor of Moldova's region of Gagauzia has been sent to court, prosecutors said on Wednesday, setting up the prospect of the Kremlin ally being tried on charges of channelling ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi to death for charges linked to Iran's 2022-23 unrest, his lawyer told Iranian newspaper Sharq on Wednesday. Salehi in his songs supported ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Three ministers from the largest party in Poland's government will stand in European parliament elections, officials said, as Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged Poles to vote in a ballot he labelled one of the most important in ...