ASTANA, (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin pressed their case today for closer security, political and economic cooperation between countries of the vast Eurasian region as a counterweight to Western alliances.
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah launched a big rocket and drone attack at Israel today and threatened to hit new targets in retaliation for the killing of a top commander, in the latest surge of violence in the steadily worsening conflict across the border.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Hurricane Beryl thrashed Jamaica with heavy winds and rain yesterday, killing at least one person after forging a destructive, water-soaked path across smaller Caribbean islands over the past couple days.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A visit to Russia by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expected within days, could help dispel worries that New Delhi is getting too close to the West and further away from Moscow, ceding space to China, analysts said.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi swore in a reshuffled cabinet today that includes new finance and foreign ministers in a government facing challenges including the Gaza war on its border, economic woes and persistent power cuts.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Some elected Democrats loyal to President Joe Biden raised fresh questions yesterday about his 2024 re-election bid, with one calling for him to step aside, a shift after many defended him in the wake of last week’s shaky debate performance.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – At least 116 people, many of them women and children, were killed in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in north India yesterday, authorities said, in one of the country’s worst such tragedies in years.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances of serious infection or disease.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Rudy Giuliani lost his New York law license yesterday, after a state appeals court found he had lied in arguing that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from his client, former Republican U.S.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – At least 116 people, many of them women and children, were killed in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in north India today, authorities said, in one of the country’s worst such tragedies in years.
NAIROBI/MOMBASA, (Reuters) – Riot police fired tear gas grenades and charged at stone-throwing protesters in downtown Nairobi and across Kenya on Tuesday in the most widespread unrest since at least two dozen protesters died in clashes a week ago.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for actions that were within his constitutional powers as president in a landmark decision recognizing for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that he has accepted a proposal to restart direct talks with the United States.
KATHMANDU, (Reuters) – A Nepali court sentenced a man who thousands believed was a reincarnation of the Buddha to 10 years in jail yesterday for child sexual abuse, a court official said.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – The Vatican has banned workers at St Peter’s Basilica from having visible tattoos or body piercings to maintain “decorum”.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity leaves Judge Tanya Chutkan to determine how much of the federal criminal case involving Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 election can survive.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s new president, Jose Raul Mulino, took office on Monday vowing to curb illegal immigration, with his government quickly signing an agreement with the United States to crack down on migration through the treacherous Darien Gap jungle passage.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court found today that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for official actions taken as president, but can for private acts, in a landmark ruling recognizing for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution.
(Reuters) – As the Netherlands today marks 161 years since the abolition of slavery, activists have questioned the sincerity of recent apologies by Dutch authorities given they have not addressed the politically thorny issue of reparations.
PARIS (Reuters) – Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party won the first round of France’s parliamentary election on Sunday, exit polls showed, but the final result will depend on days of horsetrading before next week’s run-off.
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