JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s government said on Friday that it had asked Taiwan to relocate its de facto embassy out of the capital Pretoria, while Taiwan accused it of bowing to pressure from China.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The leader of Brazil’s biggest right-wing party cannot speak to his candidate for the 2026 presidential election by court order, even though his office is across the corridor.
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s senate voted to dismiss Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office by impeachment on five out of 11 charges levelled against him on Thursday, in an unprecedented move that risks pushing the country towards a political crisis.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The EU’s foreign policy chief today appeared to criticise the United States giving Israel one month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, saying that during that time, too many people would die.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday about efforts to surge security assistance to Ukraine and announced a new $425 million military aid package, the White House said.
(Reuters) – A fuel tanker overturned late on Tuesday in Nigeria’s northern state of Jigawa after the driver lost control of the vehicle, spilling petrol which exploded and killed at least 147 people, police and state emergency services said on Wednesday.
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s parliament made it illegal on Wednesday for couples to go abroad to have a baby via surrogacy — a pet project of Prime Minister’s Giorgia Meloni party which activists say is meant to target same-sex partners.
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday said India made “a horrific mistake” by thinking it could interfere as aggressively as it allegedly did in Canada’s sovereignty.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has warned Israel that it must take steps in the next month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on U.S.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s government on Tuesday said it will allot spectrum for satellite broadband administratively and not via auction, hours after Elon Musk criticized the auction route being sought by rival billionaire Mukesh Ambani as “unprecedented”.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Millions of people across southern Africa are facing the worst food crisis in decades, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, warning that its ability to provide relief risks being stymied by funding shortfalls.
(Reuters) Russia’s Foreign Ministry accused South Korea on Monday of boosting tension in its relations with the Communist North and called for diplomacy in restoring calm and security on the Korean peninsula.
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s courts on Tuesday declined to stop this week’s Senate vote on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s impeachment from going ahead.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The fight over how India should allocate satellite broadband spectrum intensified today as Elon Musk said any move by New Delhi to auction it, rather than allocate it, would be “unprecedented”, challenging the position of rival billionaires.
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israel expanded its targets in its war with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 21 people in an airstrike in the north, health officials said, while millions of Israelis took shelter from projectiles fired back across the border.
NEW DELHI/OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada expelled six top Indian diplomats and consular officials in relation to an investigation into the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia, its foreign ministry said on Monday.