BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Ecuador will introduce power cuts for several hours a day until mid-December, the government said on Thursday, because of a strong drought that has hit production at its hydro-electric plants.
GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel said its ground forces had pushed into Gaza overnight to attack Hamas targets as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was “preparing for a ground invasion” that could be one of several.
(Reuters) – At least 22 people were killed and 50 to 60 wounded yesterday in mass shootings at multiple locations including a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine, NBC News reported, citing a Lewiston police source.
(Reuters) – The United Auto Workers (UAW) union reached a tentative labour deal yesterday with Ford Motor F.N,
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday a “path toward peace” must be forged once the Israel-Gaza crisis concludes, with independent states for the Israelis and Palestinians and an integration of Israel among its Arab neighbours.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives elected Republican Mike Johnson, a conservative with little leadership experience, as its speaker yesterday after a turbulent three weeks that left the rudderless chamber unable to respond to the Middle East crisis or carry out any of its basic duties.
(Reuters) – At least 16 people were killed and 50 to 60 were wounded today in mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, CNN reported, citing multiple law enforcement sources.
ANKARA, (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, in his strongest comments yet on the Gaza conflict, said today the Palestinian militant group Hamas was not a terrorist organisation but a liberation group fighting to protect Palestinian lands and people.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A British police officer was jailed for life today for grooming dozens of young girls into sharing explicit images of themselves through Snapchat, in the latest shocking case involving a serving officer.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Carnival Corp’s CCL.N Australian unit has been ordered to pay the medical expenses of a woman who contracted COVID-19, with a judge ruling that the cruise ship operator misled passengers about safety risks in a landmark class action ruling.
GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – The United States and Russia led international calls for a pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow aid into the besieged Gaza Strip, as Israel maintained its bombardment of the enclave where Palestinians are living in harrowing conditions.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Republicans nominated Mike Johnson to lead the House of Representatives yesterday, though it was unclear whether he would merely become the latest hopeful to fall victim to party infighting that has paralyzed Congress for over three weeks.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – A Panama court yesterday upheld a 128-month prison sentence for money laundering against former President Ricardo Martinelli, the frontrunner in the Central American country’s presidential election next year.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A former lawyer for Donald Trump, Jenna Ellis, pleaded guilty yesterday to helping the then-U.S.
GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – The Palestinian health ministry said today that Israeli air strikes had killed more than 700 Palestinians in Hamas-run Gaza overnight, the highest 24-hour death toll in Israel’s declared two-week-old total siege of the narrow strip.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China removed its defence minister tpday, the second ousting of a senior leader in three months, raising questions about the stability of the leadership team around Chinese President Xi Jinping.
ROME, (Reuters) – Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said today a blast at a hospital in Gaza City last week was not caused by a missile fired by Israel and also said around 50 people had been killed, not the almost 500 reported by Palestinian officials.
GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel’s military said it was preparing for “unrelenting attacks” to dismantle Hamas while former U.S.
(Reuters) – An off-duty pilot riding in the cockpit of an Alaska Airlines jet tried to disable the aircraft’s engines on a flight from the Seattle area to San Francisco, but crew members subdued him, and the plane landed in Portland, Oregon, officials said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republicans, whose party infighting has paralyzed the U.S.
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