World

(Reuters) – Marine conservationists and government scientists are seeking clues to the mystery of how a 44-foot whale carcass ended up on the bow of a cruise liner, where it was discovered as the ship approached New York City’s Port of Brooklyn over the weekend.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A New York man who murdered a homeless person and wounded two others as they slept outdoors on park benches in a stabbing spree over several nights in July 2022 was sentenced to between 25 years and life in prison yesterday, prosecutors said.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian missiles and drones struck nearly a dozen Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities today, causing serious damage at three Soviet-era thermal power plants and blackouts in multiple regions, officials said.

(Reuters) – AstraZeneca AZN.L said on Tuesday it had initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine due to a “surplus of available updated vaccines” since the pandemic.

CAIRO/WASHINGTON/RAFAH, Gaza Strip,  (Reuters) – The United States believes the remaining differences between Israel and Hamas can be bridged in negotiations over the Palestinian militant group’s latest ceasefire proposal, as talks resume in Cairo today.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Porn star Stormy Daniels described her 2006 encounter with Donald Trump in unflattering terms at his criminal trial yesterday, testifying she tried not to think about the sex while it took place and feared it would become public.

TARBES, France,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping left France yesterday after a two-day trip during which he offered no major concessions on trade or foreign policy, even as President Emmanuel Macron pressed him on market access and Ukraine.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said it was up the West to choose between confrontation and cooperation as he was sworn in for a new six-year term today at a Kremlin ceremony that was boycotted by the United States and many of its allies.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s military said today that a suicide bomb attack that killed five Chinese engineers was planned in neighbouring Afghanistan, and that the bomber was also an Afghan national.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO/ JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Palestinian militant group Hamas yesterday agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators, but Israel said the terms did not meet its demands and pressed ahead with strikes in Rafah while planning to continue negotiations on a deal.

HANOI,  (Reuters) – War veterans, party leaders and diplomats gathered in Vietnam’s Dien Bien Phu province today for an event to mark the 70th anniversary of the country’s victory over French colonial forces.

CANOAS, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva asked Congress on Monday to recognize a state of public calamity for the heavy rains that have killed at least 85 people in the country’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The judge in Donald Trump’s criminal trial fined him $1,000 and held him in contempt of court for a 10th time yesterday for violating a gag order and warned that further violations could land the former president in jail.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – People who carry two copies of the APOE4 gene are virtually guaranteed to develop Alzheimer’s and face symptoms at an earlier age, researchers reported on Monday in a study that could redefine such carriers as having a new genetic form of the mind-wasting disease.

ROME,(Reuters) – Italy’s Defence Minister said on Monday economic sanctions against Russia had failed and called on the West to try harder to negotiate a diplomatic solution with President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – As the Democratic minority leader in a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries’ influence is normally limited.

JERUSALEM/DOHA (Reuters) – Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station’s local operations on Sunday, an Israeli official and an Al Jazeera source told Reuters.

CAIRO/DOHA (Reuters) – Prospects for a Gaza ceasefire appeared slim on Sunday as Hamas reiterated its demand for an end to the war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly ruled that out.

CAIRO (Reuters) – The armed wing of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza that Israel said killed three of its soldiers.

AMMAN (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike killed four members of a family in a house in a border village in southern Lebanon on Sunday, civil defence and security sources said.