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Serbia’s PM Ana Brnabic says she is willing to resign amid opposition protests
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday she was willing to resign to test popularity of the ruling coalition, following weeks of opposition protests. For five consecutive weeks, tens of thousands...
Macron returns to former minister to help break Lebanon deadlock
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron appointed on Wednesday his former foreign minister as personal envoy to Lebanon just a year after he stepped down and having previously not been able to make any inroads in the political deadlock in the country. Macron led international efforts after a massive explosion that killed more than...
Mexico investigates troops over video of ‘execution’ of five men
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican prosecutors are investigating what the country’s president on Wednesday called an “execution” after soldiers were filmed beating and then shooting five men they pulled from a crashed pick-up truck. The investigation, confirmed by the defense ministry, follows the publication by media outlets on Tuesday of a video dated May 18...
Chile’s conservative assembly begins drafting new constitution
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A new Constitutional Council dominated by conservative parties in charge of drafting Chile’s new constitution began its official duties on Wednesday, in the second attempt to replace the current text that dates back to the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. The new council, elected on May 7, is a sharp shift from the predominantly...
Bahanaga Bazar, the rural Indian train station rocked by disaster
By Krishn Kaushik BAHANAGA BAZAR, India (Reuters) – Few trains stop at Bahanaga Bazar, the sleepy, small rural station in the Balasore district of Odisha state where India’s deadliest train accident in more than two decades happened. Three rooms, topped by a corrugated metal roof, and three platforms make up the station, which serves 14...
Blinken speaks with Senegal’s president, discusses recent unrest -US State Dept
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Senegal’s President Macky Sall on Wednesday, and the two discussed the political situation and recent unrest in the African country, a State Department spokesperson said. “Blinken expressed his condolences for those killed and injured during the recent violence. The Secretary reiterated the United States’...
Prince Harry: It would be injustice if court rules I’m not hacking victim
By Michael Holden and Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Prince Harry said on Wednesday he would feel a sense of injustice if London’s High Court did not conclude he was a phone-hacking victim, as he completed more than eight hours giving evidence against a British tabloid newspaper group. Harry, King Charles’ younger son, spent a day-and-a-half...
North American lobster industry confronts ‘ropeless’ traps after whale entanglements
By Lauren Owens Lambert MONHEGAN ISLAND, Maine (Reuters) – An emerging technology to fish for lobsters virtually ropeless to prevent whale entanglements is exciting conservationists, but getting a frigid reception from harvesters worried it will drive them out of business and upend their way of life. Injuries to endangered North Atlantic Right Whales ensnared in...
Ukrainians face homelessness, disease risk as floods crest from breached dam
By Viktoriia Lakezina and Max Hunder KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainians abandoned inundated homes as floods crested across a swathe of the south on Wednesday after the destruction of a huge hydro-electric dam on front lines between Russian and Ukrainian forces, with their presidents trading blame for the disaster. Residents slogged through flooded streets carrying...
Short of animals, Gaza Zoo fights to survive
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Large paintings of a bear, an elephant and a giraffe decorate the outer walls of NAMA Zoo in Gaza City, but none of these wild creatures is represented live among those caged inside. Six years ago, the lone tiger died, and despite visitors’ frequent demands for a replacement, the...
Saudi crown prince, Blinken had ‘candid’ talks in Jeddah
By Humeyra Pamuk JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the early hours of Wednesday and discussed a wide range of bilateral issues, in an “open, candid” conversation, a U.S. official said. The top U.S. diplomat arrived in Saudi Arabia late on Tuesday...
Air India to send replacement plane for passengers stranded in Russia
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Air India said on Wednesday a reserve plane would take off from Mumbai on Wednesday for passengers whose flight on Tuesday was forced to land at an airport in Russia’s Far East because of engine trouble. One of the airline’s Boeing 777 widebody aircraft developed a technical issue with one of...
Pro wrestlers return to China as global bouts resume after pandemic
By Casey Hall SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Not only presidents and chief executives are making their way to China to reconnect after three years of border closures, but also international professional wrestlers, who returned this week after the COVID-19 pandemic. China’s professional league, Middle Kingdom Wrestling (MKW), held its championship card of eight bouts on Tuesday...
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War zone villagers flee after massive Ukraine dam destroyed
KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) – A torrent of water burst through a massive dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, flooding a swathe of the war zone, forcing villagers to flee and prompting finger-pointing from both sides. Ukraine said Russia had committed a deliberate war crime in...
Kherson residents flee under artillery fire after collapsed Kakhovka dam floods homes
KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) – Distraught residents of Ukraine’s Kherson evacuated their homes under artillery fire on Tuesday after they were flooded by the rupture of a vast dam upstream in a disaster that Kyiv and Moscow have blamed on each other. Some residents cried as they packed belongings into cars. A meteorologist measuring the river...
Threat to whales complicates US research into seaweed for biofuel
CAPE COD BAY, Massachusetts (Reuters) – In Cape Cod Bay, 10-year-old Pilgrim and her calf skim the water’s glassy surface alongside the Shearwater research vessel to feed on tiny crustaceans. The two are among the last surviving 340 or so North Atlantic right whales left migrating along the U.S. East Coast – down from 480...
New York City sues Hyundai, Kia over vehicle thefts
NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City on Tuesday sued Hyundai Motor Co and Kia Corp, accusing the South Korean automakers of negligence and creating a public nuisance by selling vehicles that are too easy to steal. The most populous U.S. city joined several other major cities that have sued Hyundai and Kia over the thefts,...
At UN, Ukraine, Russia blame each other for burst dam, US ‘not certain’
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States said on Tuesday it was “not certain” who was to blame for a burst dam in Ukraine, but it would not make sense for Ukraine to have done this to its own people and territory, as Kyiv and Moscow blamed each other for the disaster. The 15-member U.N....
White House: US cannot conclusively determine cause of Ukrainian dam destruction
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Tuesday said it could not say conclusively what caused the destruction of a massive dam in Ukraine, but was assessing reports that the blast was caused by Russia, which has been occupying the dam since last year. Spokesman John Kirby said it was clear that the destruction of...
US calls Roger Waters performance in Berlin ‘deeply offensive to Jewish people’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Tuesday weighed in on a controversy over a performance by Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, denouncing the show in Berlin as “deeply offensive to Jewish people” and accusing Waters of having a record of using antisemitic tropes. Waters, 79, has said the performance last month, during which...
Cuba Gooding Jr settles civil sex abuse case moments before trial
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Cuba Gooding Jr. reached a settlement on Tuesday with a woman who sued him for $6 million on an accusation that he raped her a decade ago, with the agreement coming minutes before jury selection was set to being in Manhattan federal court. The eleventh-hour deal means the Oscar winning...
White House vows an improved effort against drug overdoses
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday pledged an improved effort to combat drug overdoses that claimed the lives of about 100,000 Americans last year, using a White House summit to tout a multifaceted approach to tackle synthetic and illicit drugs such as the powerful opioid fentanyl. “Today’s summit is...
Saudi-Iranian ties: A history of ups and downs
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran reopened its embassy in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Tuesday, Saudi media reported, months after the two regional rivals agreed to end years of antagonism under a Chinese-brokered deal. Protracted rivalry between the Middle East’s leading Shi’ite and Sunni Muslim-led powers has fuelled conflicts across the region including wars in Yemen...
Indonesian scientist works with poachers to restore coral reefs
By Abd Rahman Muchtar SPERMONDE ISLANDS, Indonesia (Reuters) – For nearly two decades, Indonesian marine scientist Syafyudin Yusuf has worked with former poachers to rehabilitate coral reefs destroyed by their use of dynamite for fishing. They have restored to health 11.5 hectares (roughly 30 acres) of corals around a group of 120 islands known as...
Prince Harry tells court: UK government and media at ‘rock bottom’
LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Harry gave evidence on Tuesday at the High Court in London in his lawsuit against the publisher of British tabloid the Daily Mirror, which he accuses of phone-hacking and other unlawful acts. Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, has previously admitted its...
Brazil to launch grants for poor families protecting Amazon rainforest
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s government will launch a social program to pay additional grants to poor families that work in forest protection, environment minister Marina Silva said on Monday, in a bid to boost protection of the Amazon rainforest. The program, called Bolsa Verde, would be initially implemented across Brazil’s Amazon, the world’s largest tropical...
NZ electoral review recommends widespread changes including lowering voting age
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s electoral system needs significant changes such as a lower voting age of 16 to ensure democracy is more accessible, according to a draft report release on Tuesday. The report is part of an independent review commissioned by the New Zealand government in 2021 to ensure parliamentary rules remain fit for...
Senegalese man warned of gun violence the day he was shot dead in riots
DAKAR (Reuters) -Elhaji Cisse was busy on Friday, the day he was killed, tweeting hundreds of times as riots erupted beyond the walls of his compound in a busy suburb of Senegal’s capital Dakar. In one post, the 26-year-old student warned his 1,700 followers about security forces firing live rounds at protesters. In another, he...
Canada on track for its worst-ever wildfire season
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada is on track for its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction as warm and dry conditions are forecast to persist through to the end of the summer after an unprecedented start to the fire season, officials said on Monday. Blazes are burning in nearly all Canadian provinces and territories, and federal government...
US senator presses for declassified report on Al Jazeera reporter’s killing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen called on Monday for declassifying a government report on the death of Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist who was shot and killed while covering an Israeli army raid last year. One of the most recognizable journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for two decades, Abu...
