LONDON, (Reuters) – British-Irish actor Michael Gambon, best known to global audiences for playing the wise professor Albus Dumbledore in the “Harry Potter” movie franchise and whose career was launched by his mentor Laurence Olivier, died aged 82 yesterday.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian agricultural scientist Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, who ushered a “Green Revolution” in India nearly six decades ago that helped end famine and transformed the country as a top producer of wheat, died yesterday aged 98.
TEMPE, Arizona, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden launched a wide-ranging attack on Republican Donald Trump today, warning that his predecessor is a threat to American democracy and drawing a sharp distinction between himself and his likely 2024 election opponent.
SIMI VALLEY, California, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s Republican rivals clashed at a chaotic presidential debate yesterday, leveling attacks at the absent former president, Democratic President Joe Biden and one another over issues from China to immigration to the economy.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian agricultural scientist Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, who ushered a “Green Revolution” in India nearly six decades ago that helped end famine and transformed the country as a top producer of wheat, died today aged 98.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of taking bribes from three New Jersey businessmen, as calls for his resignation from fellow Democrats escalated.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government is preparing a task force to provide emergency assistance to inhabitants in the Amazon region hit by a severe drought that has impacted the rivers that are their life support, Environment Minister Marina Silva said.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Stung by a Supreme Court rejection of their proposal to restrict recognition of Indigenous lands, Brazil’s congressional farm lobby on Wednesday managed to swiftly pass a bill to counter the top court’s decision.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Costa Rican prosecutors said yesterday they were investigating allegations made in a Mexican newspaper that the government and drug traffickers had held talks last year in an effort to curb a spike in murders.
(Reuters) – Six young people from areas in Portugal ravaged by wildfires and heatwaves took 32 European governments to court today, arguing their failure to act fast enough on climate change is a violation of their human rights.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Over half of all U.S. Democratic senators, including Senator Cory Booker, yesterday called on Senator Bob Menendez to resign after federal prosecutors charged him and his wife with taking bribes from three New Jersey businessmen.
NINEVEH, Iraq, (Reuters) – More than 100 people were killed and 150 injured in a fire at a wedding party in Hamdaniya district in Iraq’s Nineveh province that left civil defence searching the charred skeleton of a building for survivors into the early hours of Wednesday.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The death toll from an explosion and fire at a fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh has risen to 68, with a further 105 people missing and nearly 300 injured, the office of Karabakh’s ombudsman said yesterday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Donald Trump and his family business were found liable for fraud today by a New York judge in state Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit accusing the former U.S.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Oligarch Oleg Deripaska said Russia has weathered Western sanctions imposed over the invasion of Ukraine and cautioned that Western hopes of using such a 19th Century instrument to end the war or trigger regime change were doomed to failure.
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Iraq hopes to complete its first railway link with neighbouring Iran within 18 months, largely to help facilitate the transport of millions of pilgrims that visit Shi’ite Muslim shrines in Iraq each year, a senior transport adviser said.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden met Pacific island leaders for a second White House summit in just over a year on Monday, part of a charm offensive aimed at curbing inroads by China into a region Washington considers strategically crucial.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s special forces said yesterday they had killed Moscow’s top admiral in Crimea along with 33 other officers in last week’s missile attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in the port of Sevastopol.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic Senator Bob Menendez on Monday ignored calls to resign from his seat, denying wrongdoing and vowing to stay in Congress after prosecutors charged him and his wife with taking bribes from three New Jersey businessmen.
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