RICHMOND, VA. (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday heard Virginia Democrats' challenge to a Republican-backed state law requiring prospective voters to show approved photo identification before casting ballots.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is expected on Thursday to detail his plans to fight the city's high crime using what he has described as a dual approach to improving public safety: more programs for young people and more police.

BRUSSELS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A senior British official made clear during a meeting with ambassadors from European Union countries in London this week that his government wants a signal from the EU about what kind of Brexit deal it is willing to accept before triggering divorce talks, EU sources said.

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Thousands of Romanians protested on Thursday against the Senate’s decision to shut down a potential manslaughter investigation into a former deputy prime minister over the death of a police motorcycle outrider.

WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The House of Representatives Financial Services committee plans to hold a hearing into Wells Fargo & Co next week after a scandal at the bank involving as many as 2 million fake accounts that thousands of employees set up in customers' names.

Sept 22 (Reuters) - A few days before the Russian parliamentary election, the Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny released a video of the country house used by the prime minister - and former president - Dmitry Medvedev. Navalny and his colleagues had located Medvedev after he posted a photo on Instagram of his mushroom-picking excursion near the Volga River.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday against embracing the "stop and frisk" police tactic that he said would worsen relations between police and community in the country.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The wife of the Afghan-born U.S. citizen charged in last weekend's bombings in New York City and New Jersey has returned to the United States, a law enforcement official said on Thursday, as a defense lawyer pressed to get access to the accused man.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The International Air Transport Association urged Brazil on Thursday not to list Ireland as a tax haven, a decision that would increase taxes on aircraft leases for Brazilian carriers struggling to regain profitability.