LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Conservative Party suspended one of its lawmakers, Lee Anderson, yesterday after he said the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was under the control of Islamists.
KYIV, (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen vowed that Europe would back Ukraine until it was “finally free” as she and three other Western leaders arrived in Kyiv to show solidarity on the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
(Reuters) – Ukrainian drones hit a major Russian steel factory overnight, causing a large fire, a Kyiv source said today, the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza Strip, (Reu-ters) – Gaza truce talks were underway in Paris yesterday, in what appears to be the most serious push for weeks to halt the fighting in the battered Palestinian enclave and see Israeli and foreign hostages released.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former longtime National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre mismanaged the gun rights group and cost it millions of dollars through wasteful spending to support a lavish lifestyle, a jury found on Friday, recommending that he repay $4.35 million.
(Reuters) – The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is “alive and well” but resting on its side a day after its white-knuckle touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface, and the first from the U.S.
VIENNA, (Reuters) – A Vienna court yesterday found Austria’s conservative former Chancel-lor Sebastian Kurz guilty of perjury and handed him an eight-month suspended prison sentence, dealing a serious blow to any chance he may have of staging a political comeback.
SHAMBHU, India, (Reuters) – Thousands of protesting Indian farmers facing off with security forces have come under the protection of the Nihang Sikhs, a warrior sect dating back to the 1600s distinguished by their ink-blue robes and ancient weapons such as swords and spears.
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden today announced Washington would issue more than 500 new sanctions targeting Russia as the United States seeks to increase pressure on Moscow to mark the second anniversary of its war in Ukraine.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Foreign ministers at the G20 group of nations meeting in Brazil were nearly unanimous in their support for a two-state solution as the only path to peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Brazilian minister hosting the event said yesterday.
DUBAI/ADEN/LONDON, (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis claimed responsibility for an attack on a UK-owned cargo ship and a drone assault on an American destroyer yesteday, and they targeted Israel’s port and resort city of Eilat with ballistic missiles and drones.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a Pacific Ocean neighbour of Hawaii, with uniformed officers involved in community policing and a crime database program, Kiribati officials told Reuters.
(Reuters) – Armenia has frozen its participation in the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) because the pact had failed the country, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview broadcast yesterday.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – A Canadian judge yesterday said that a white nationalist who deliberately ran over and killed four members of a Muslim family in 2021 had committed terrorism, the first ruling of its kind, media reported.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin flew on a modernised Tu-160M nuclear-capable strategic bomber today in a move likely to be seen in the West as a pointed reminder of Moscow’s nuclear capabilities.
LONDON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is backing outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as the next secretary general of NATO, a U.S.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO, (Reuters) – Israel intensified its bombardment of Rafah in Gaza’s south and over a dozen members of one family were killed in an air strike, residents said, as the ruined Palestinian enclave’s health ministry announced 29,313 deaths in the war so far.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Dozens of lawmakers stormed out of Britain’s parliament yesterday with tempers flaring as the three biggest political parties sought to outmanoeuvre each other over a vote on a ceasefire in Gaza.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. offered a reward of up to $15 million for information on the leaders of the notorious cybercrime group Lockbit on Wednesday as police in Ukraine announced the arrest of a father-son duo alleged to have been involved with the gang.