LONDON, (Reuters) – High-profile British broadcaster Piers Morgan, the former editor of British tabloid the Daily Mirror, knew about phone hacking at the newspaper, a judge at London’s High Court ruled today in a lawsuit brought by Prince Harry and others.
CAIRO/GAZA, (Reuters) – A U.S. security envoy discussed with Israeli officials yesterday how to better protect civilians during their war against Hamas in Gaza and President Joe Biden appealed for lives in the Palestinian territory to be saved.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union leaders agreed to open membership talks with Ukraine even as it continues to fight Russia’s invasion, but they could not agree on a 50 billion euro package of financial aid for Kyiv due to opposition from Hungary.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former FBI official was sentenced to over four years in prison on Thursday after previously pleading guilty to working for Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch under U.S.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – The COP28 climate summit in Dubai started with all the ingredients for spectacular failure: It proposed an end to the fossil-fuel era at a conference situated in Arab oil country amid overt opposition from the powerful oil-producer group OPEC.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s attorney general’s office said yesterday it had detained 29 people, including the head of the country’s judicial regulator, as part of an investigation into an alleged drug trafficking scheme.
(Reuters) – The U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica said yesterday it planned to organize a regional conference on protecting 5G networks in April next year, days after China rejected cyber-security and spying concerns raised by Costa Rica’s president.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The parties to a ceasefire in parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have agreed to a two-week extension, according to a senior U.S.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union leaders granted Ukraine a major political win today by agreeing to start membership negotiations at a time when its counter-offensive against Russia’s invasion has failed to make major gains and U.S.
CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel announced its worst combat losses in more than a month yesterday after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza, and faced growing diplomatic isolation as civilian deaths mounted and a humanitarian catastrophe worsened in the Palestinian territory.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday to formally authorize its ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, as Republicans unite behind the effort even though they have yet to find evidence of wrongdoing by the Democrat.
UNITED NATIONS/CAIRO/GAZA, (Reuters) – Israel faced growing diplomatic isolation in its war against Hamas as the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and U.S.
DUBAI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Phasing out fossil fuels around the world is unlikely to happen – or even win backing from all governments – without far more finance and clean technology on offer for developing countries, officials and analysts said at the COP28 U.N.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden warned Republicans yesterday that they would give Russia a “Christmas gift” if they failed to provide additional military aid to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose meeting with a top U.S.
HANOI, (Reuters) – Communist-ruled China and Vietnam, at odds over claims in the South China Sea, agreed yesterday to boost ties and build a community with a “shared future”, three months after Hanoi upgraded its formal relations with the United States.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak avoided defeat in parliament yesterday on an emergency bill to revive his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, seeing off a revolt by dozens of his lawmakers that laid bare his party’s deep divisions.
BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Myanmar has become the world’s largest source of opium, thanks to domestic instability and a decline in cultivation in Afghanistan, the United Nations said in a report on Tuesday.