YANOMAMI INDIGENOUS LAND, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil is losing the upper hand in its battle to save the Yanomami Indigenous people, who are dying from flu, malaria and malnutrition brought into their vast, isolated Amazon rainforest reservation by resurgent illegal miners.
OSLO, (Reuters) – Three permits given by the Norwegian government to develop new offshore oil and gas fields were found to be invalid yesterday because their environmental impact was not sufficiently assessed, in a ruling that could set a precedent for new fields.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince was on lockdown yesterday, as flaming barricades across several neighbourhoods forced residents to shelter in place or return home in the latest flare-ups in chronic gang violence plaguing the Caribbean country.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico and Chile expressed “growing worry” yesterday over “an escalation of violence” after several months of war between Israel and Hamas in a referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over possible crimes.
IQALUIT, Nunavut, (Reuters) – Canada yesterday formally gave the giant Arctic territory of Nunavut control over its reserves of gold, diamonds, iron, cobalt and rare earth metals, a move that could boost exploration and development.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/ WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The U.S. launched new strikes against Houthi anti-ship missiles aimed at the Red Sea yesterday, as growing tensions in the region’s sea lanes disrupted global trade and raised fears of supply bottlenecks that could reignite inflation.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved a stopgap bill to fund the federal government through early March and avert a partial government shutdown, sending it to President Joe Biden for final approval.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan said it used killer drones and rockets to strike separatist Baloch militants inside Iran yesterday, in a retaliatory strike two days after Tehran said it attacked the bases of another group within Pakistani territory.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The vaccination records of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro are false, the country’s comptroller general’s office said yesterday after an investigation regarding the alleged tampering of information on his COVID-19 vaccination card.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Police in Canada are investigating a series of extortions and related crimes that they believe are orchestrated by a suspect in India and involve criminals in Edmonton, Alberta, targeting the region’s affluent South Asian people.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico and Chile expressed “growing worry” today over escalating violence in the Palestinian territory of Gaza after several months of war between Israel and Hamas in a referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over possible crimes.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan said it used killer drones and rockets to strike separatist Baloch militants inside Iran today, in a retaliatory strike two days after Tehran said it attacked the bases of another group within Pakistani territory.
(Reuters) – The head of one of Russia’s biggest ethnically mixed republics accused what he called extremists and traitors yesterday of trying to bring about its secession, a day after police used tear gas and batons to break up a rare demonstration.
GAZA/ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER/ DOHA, (Reuters) – Israel pressed its assault on Khan Younis in southern Gaza yesterday, sending tanks westwards while Jordan decried shelling that badly damaged its field hospital in the city.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Singapore’s former Transport Minister S. Iswaran has been charged in court for graft, the anti-corruption agency said on Thursday, in one of the most high-profile graft cases involving a minister in the Asian financial hub in decades.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan recalled its ambassador from neighbouring Iran yesterday to protest at a “blatant breach” of its sovereignty after Tehran said it launched missile attacks on militant bases in southwestern Pakistan.
DOHA, (Reuters) – A criminal court in Qatar has sentenced the Gulf Arab state’s former finance minister to 20 years in prison for laundering more than $5.6 billion, according to a document outlining the judgment seen by Reuters.
JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Mining activity at a nickel industrial park linked to mainly Chinese companies has contributed to mass deforestation in Indonesia, a non-governmental group said in a report.
GAZA/ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER/ DOHA, (Reuters) – Israeli tanks stormed back into parts of the northern Gaza Strip they had left last week, residents said yesterday, reigniting some of the most intense combat since the New Year when Israel announced it was scaling back its operations there.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Dutch Senate will support a law to evenly spread asylum seekers over municipalities in the Netherlands, despite strong resistance from far-right election winner Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party and other parties looking to form a new government.
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