GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalans fed up with persistent graft scandals yesterday catapulted an unheralded anti-corruption candidate into a run-off for the presidency, raising hopes of a renewed drive to clean up the government after years of frustration.
JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday objected to a decision by Israel’s nationalist-religious government to approve the construction of around 5,700 additional housing units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin made a defiant televised address this evening, saying he had deliberately let Saturday’s 24-hour mutiny by the Wagner militia go on as long as it did to avoid bloodshed, and that it had reinforced national unity.
(Reuters) – Russia has faced “a challenge to its stability” and must remain united behind President Vladimir Putin, its prime minister said today, after mercenaries briefly occupied a strategic command centre for its Ukraine war and marched on Moscow.
(Reuters) – Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said it had seized the main base of a heavily armed police unit on Sunday as it sought an edge in its war with the army during heavy fighting in the capital Khartoum.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The unprecedented challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin by Wagner fighters has exposed fresh “cracks” in the strength of his leadership that may take weeks or months to play out, U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump said the federal government has a role in regulating late term abortions, but declined to provide specifics on what that role was in a speech to a conservative audience on Saturday night.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s far-right police minister rebuked the force on Sunday for what he called “collective punishment” of Jewish settlers, as cracks widened between the security services and the government over violence convulsing the occupied West Bank.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Clashes, artillery fire and air strikes surged in Sudan’s capital today, witnesses said, as a warbetween rival military factions that has displaced 2.5 million people and caused a humanitarian crisis entered its 11th week.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan began his testimony in the corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, in a court session that was broadcast live from an English seaside town direct to Jerusalem.
ROSTOV-ON-DON/VORONEZH, Russia, (Reuters) – Heavily armed Russian mercenaries withdrew from the southern Russian city of Rostov overnight under a deal that defused an unprecedented challenge to the authority of President Vladimir Putin and halted their rapid advance on Moscow.
ROSTOV-ON-DON/VORONEZH, Russia, (Reuters) – Heavily armed Russian mercenaries who advanced most of the way to Moscow halted their approach, de-escalating a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power, in a move that their leader said would avoid bloodshed.
ROSTOV-ON-DON/VORONEZH, Russia, (Reuters) – Heavily armed Russian mercenaries who advanced most of the way to Moscow began turning back today, de-escalating a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power, in a move their leader said would avoid bloodshed.
(Reuters) – U.S. intelligence agencies found no direct evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic stemmed from an incident at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, a report declassified yesterday said.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Leaders of 15 Indian opposition parties agreed yesterday to fight the 2024 national elections on a common platformagainst Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
The parties, many of which are regional rivals and have been splintered at the national level, account for less than half the 301 seats the BJP has in the 542-member lower house of parliament.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared to suggest he had sent an armed convoy on a 1,200-km (750-mile) charge towards Moscow today in an unlikely attempt to topple the military leadership.