(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden yesterday again told Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he should not proceed with military action in Rafah without a credible and executable plan to protect Palestinian civilians, the White House said.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A recent spike of violence in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is preventing the World Food Programme (WFP) from reaching hundreds of thousands of people in urgent need of supplies, as conflicts between armed gangs worsen an escalating humanitarian crisis.
ATHENS, (Reuters) – Greece’s parliament approved a bill allowing same-sex civil marriage yesterday, a landmark victory for supporters of LGBT rights that was greeted with cheers by onlookers in parliament and dozens gathered on the streets of Athens.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The Kremlin dismissed yesterday a warning by the United States about Moscow’s new nuclear capabilities in space, calling it a “malicious fabrication” and a trick by the White House aimed at getting U.S.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court today scrapped a seven-year-old election funding system that allows individuals and companies to make unlimited and anonymous donations to political parties, calling it “unconstitutional”.
CAIRO/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel will press ahead with an offensive against Hamas in Rafah, the last refuge for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza, after allowing civilians to vacate the area, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday.
(Reuters) – A barrage of gunfire erupted yesterday in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, near an outdoor celebration of the NFL champion Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory, killing at least one person and wounding 21 others as throngs of fans scurried for safety.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States has told Congress and allies in Europe about new intelligence related to Russian nuclear capabilities that could pose an international threat, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan unexpectedly slipped into a recession at the end of last year, losing its title as the world’s third-biggest economy to Germany and raising doubts about when the central bank would begin to exit its decade-long ultra-loose monetary policy.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty yesterday by a Paris appeals court of illegal campaign financing over his failed 2012 re-election bid.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast yesterday that he preferred Joe Biden to Donald Trump but was willing to work with any U.S.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine destroyed a Russian landing warship off the coast of occupied Crimea in an operation with naval drones that breached the vessel’s port side today and caused it to sink, Kyiv’s military spy agency and armed forces said.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Shehbaz Sharif is set to begin a second term as Pakistan’s prime minister in coming days, returning to the role he had until August when parliament was dissolved ahead of last week’s elections.
AMBALA, India, (Reuters) – Indian security forces fired tear gas at protesting farmers for a second day today to stop tens of thousands from marching to the capital New Delhi to demand higher prices for their produce.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian police have put Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, its state secretary and Lithuania’s culture minister on the wanted list, according to the Russian Interior Ministry’s database.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell yesterday made a thinly veiled call on the U.S.
NEW YORK CITY, (Reuters) – New York City police said they are searching for a gunman who opened fire on a subway train and station platform in the Bronx yesterday, killing one man and injuring five other people.
DHAHRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia decided to halt its oil capacity expansion plans because of the energy transition, its energy minister said today, adding that the kingdom has plenty of spare capacity to cushion the oil market.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The final results of Pakistan’s national election put independents, backed by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in the lead with 93 of 264 seats.
(Reuters) – A crowd vandalized and set fire to a Waymo self-driving car using a firework in San Francisco on Saturday, the Alphabet-owned (GOOGL.O)
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