CAIRO/UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Hunger was worsening among Palestinians in the besieged Gaza strip, aid agencies said, as the United Nations General Assembly prepared to vote on Tuesday on an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the two-month-old conflict between Israel and Hamas.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. special counsel prosecuting Donald Trump on federal charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat asked the Supreme Court yesterday to launch a fast-track review of the former president’s claim he cannot be tried on those charges.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A land-based cruise missile launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen has struck a commercial tanker vessel, causing a fire and damage but no casualties, two U.S.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – A draft of a potential climate deal at the COP28 summit yesterday suggested a range of measures countries could take to slash greenhouse gas emissions, but omitted the “phase out” of fossil fuels many nations have demanded – drawing criticism from the U.S.,
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court upheld today a 2019 decision by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke special status for the state of Jammu and Kashmir and set a deadline of Sept.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Richer countries need urgently to provide money to help their vulnerable peers adapt to the impact of climate change or face consequences including mass migration, the secretary general of the Commonwealth told Reuters.
GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli tanks battled their way to the heart of Khan Younis on Sunday in a major new push into the main city of the southern Gaza Strip, as health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza said about 18,000 Palestinians had been killed in the war.
DUBAI (Reuters) – An attack on a humanitarian convoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Sudanese capital Khartoum killed two people and injured seven on Sunday, the ICRC said.
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said on Sunday that it had begun the trial of a Swedish national employed by the European Union who is charged with spying for Israel and “corruption on earth,” a crime that carries the death penalty.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Countries clashed yesterday over a possible agreement to phase-out fossil fuels at the COP28 summit in Dubai, jeopardising attempts to deliver a first-ever commitment to eventually end the use of oil and gas in 30 years of global warming talks.
GAZA/CAIRO, (Reuters) – Israel ordered residents out of the centre of Gaza’s main southern city Khan Younis yesterday and pounded the length of the enclave, after the United States wielded its U.N.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Ryan O’Neal, the 1970s Hollywood heartthrob who starred in such films as the smash-hit tearjerker “Love Story,” screwball comedy “What’s Up, Doc?”
MANILA, (Reuters) – A Philippine coastguard official yesterday accused China of firing water cannons and ramming its resupply vessels in the South China Sea, causing “serious engine damage” to one vessel.
FGAZA/CAIRO/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United States kept up pressure on Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians during a fierce offensive against Hamas militants across Gaza, even as Washington vetoed a U.N.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – OPEC is rallying its members and oil producing allies to veto a proposed deal to phase out fossil fuels at the COP28 climate summit, highlighting deep divisions over the future of oil and gas.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin today told soldiers who had fought in the Ukraine war that he would run for president again in the 2024 election, a move that will allow the former KGB spy to stay in power until at least 2030.
GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Hundreds more Palestinians were killed as Israel fought Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip’s biggest cities yesterday, and almost 2 million displaced Gazans facing shortages of food struggled to find safe refuge.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia’s Woodside Energy WDS.AX and Santos STO.AX said yesterday they were in preliminary talks to create an A$80 billion ($52 billion) global oil and gas giant, as consolidation among international energy firms intensifies.