TEL AVIV (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv on Sunday on another Middle East tour to push for a ceasefire in Gaza but Hamas raised doubts about the mission just hours after he landed by accusing Israel of undermining his efforts.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Sunday denied a report that Ukraine’s attack on the Kursk region had derailed indirect talks with Kyiv on halting strikes on energy and power targets, saying there had been no talks with Kyiv about civilian infrastructure facilities.
HYDERABAD, (Reuters) – Nearly 12% of tested spice samples failed to meet quality and safety standards, according to data obtained by Reuters of tests by Indian authorities after several countries took steps over contamination risks in two popular brands.
KOLKATA/BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) – Hospitals and clinics across India turned away patients except for emergency cases on Saturday as medical professionals staged a 24-hour shutdown in protest over the rape and murder of a doctor this month in the eastern city of Kolkata.
CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) – At least 17 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza town of Zawayda on Saturday, health officials said, as Israel issued new evacuation orders, citing Hamas rocket fire nearby.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wisconsin (Reuters) – David Mattison, a retired postal worker, had spent nearly all of his life in this remote corner of Wisconsin, watching family farms fail and small businesses go under with the hollowing out of the rural economy.
(Reuters) – A carnival float featuring a Hindu temple that is planned for an upcoming India Day Parade in New York City has sparked controversy, with a number of groups calling it anti-Muslim and saying it should be removed from the event.
IT, West Bank (Reuters) – Muawiya Sedeh, a 38 year-old father of five was at home in the West Bank village of Jit when his house was torched by a band of Jewish settlers, some masked and wielding Molotov cocktails, who stormed in on Thursday night.
(Reuters) – The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on Friday raised its risk level for mpox, a day after global health officials confirmed the first infection with a new strain of the virus outside Africa, in Sweden.
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s parliament elected political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra as its youngest prime minister on Friday, only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle between the country’s warring elites.
BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thailand’s parliament elected political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra as its youngest prime minister today, only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle between the country’s warring elites.
DOHA/CAIRO, (Reuters) – Negotiators were to meet in the Qatari capital Doha again today in an effort to hammer out a Gaza ceasefire agreement as Israel continued to slam targets in the Palestinian enclave.
LARGO, Maryland/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States has negotiated down the prices of 10 top-selling prescription drugs used by Medicare by as much as 79%, hoping to save $6 billion in the first year as part of a plan hailed yesterday by President Joe Biden with the aim to ease anger about high prices ahead of November elections.
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, (Reuters) – Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump sought to tie his Democratic rival Kamala Harris to the Biden administration’s economic record yesterday during a meandering, 80-minute press conference at his New Jersey golf club, his latest effort to blunt her momentum.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Two doctors and three others including a personal assistant to Matthew Perry have been charged with supplying the “Friends” star with ketamine, the powerful sedative that caused his overdose death nearly a year ago, authorities said yesterday.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine has chalked up a string of victories more than a week since blindsiding Russia with a lightning cross-border assault, but the risks are piling up as its troops make plans to hold territory and Russia recovers its footing.
KOLKATA, India, (Reuters) – Holding candles, hundreds of thousands of women marched through the night in cities across India, to protest the brutal rape and murder of a young female doctor in a hospital that has fueled anger over a lack of safety for women despite tough new laws.