World

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s top court today warned the nation’s most popular yoga guru and his company of stern legal action for not complying with its directive to stop advertisements saying traditional ayurvedic medicines can fully cure some diseases.

DAMASCUS,  (Reuters) – Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria yesterday in a strike that Iran said killed seven of its military advisers, including three senior commanders, and that marked a major escalation in Israel’s war with its regional adversaries.

(Reuters) – At least five employees of the World Central Kitchen (WCK) non-governmental organisation, including foreigners, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said late yesterday.

SAO PAULO/MARACAY, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela is battling a record number of wildfires, according to data released today, as a climate change-driven drought plagues the Amazon rainforest region.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – An Indian court renewed detention today for key opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal until April 15 in a graft case, his lawyers said, less than three weeks before voting begins in general elections.

(Reuters) – Russia is demanding that Ukraine hand over all people connected with terrorist acts committed in Russia, including the head of the country’s SBU Security Service, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With efforts underway to clean up thousands of tons of steel debris from the collapsed bridge in Baltimore’s harbor, Maryland Governor Wes Moore on Sunday urged Republicans to work with Democrats to approve the federal funding needed for rebuilding the bridge and to get the port economy back on its feet.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli strikes killed 77 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours, health authorities said on Sunday, as Egypt hosted an Israeli delegation for a new round of talks in a bid to secure a truce with Gaza’s Hamas rulers.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Jerusalem on Sunday against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and against exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from military service, in scenes reminiscent of mass street protests last year.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Turks punished President Tayyip Erdogan and his party today in nationwide local elections that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as the president’s chief future rival.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Truce talks between Israel and Hamas will resume today in Cairo, the latest attempt to bring about a pause after nearly six months of war in the Gaza Strip, Egypt’s Al Qahera News TV reported on Saturday, citing a security source.

SHENZHEN, China,  (Reuters) – China’s manufacturing activity expanded for the first time in six months in March, an official factory survey showed today, offering relief to policymakers even as a crisis in the property sector remains a drag on the economy and confidence.

LARNACA, Cyprus,  (Reuters) – Ships carrying 332 tons of food for Gaza left Cyprus’s Larnaca port yesterday in a convoy which will reach the besieged enclave early next week, authorities said.

(Reuters) – Salvage crews worked to lift the first piece of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the water yesterday to allow barges and tugboats to access the disaster site, Maryland and U.S.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – There has been a surge of migrant workers leaving Russia for Tajikistan after a March 22 concert hall attack near Moscow which left dozens dead, according to Tajikistan’s Ministry of Labour, Migration and Employment.

ATHENS,  (Reuters) – Greek authorities have arrested a senior member of an international gang that smuggled Latin American fuel products for illegal sale around the world, raking in an estimated profit of more than $21 billion, police said yesterday.

LARNACA, Cyprus  (Reuters) – A second shipment of aid carrying almost 400 tons of food for Gaza left Cyprus’s Larnaca port today, a Reuters witness said.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Indonesian firefighters were struggling to put out a massive fire that broke out today at a military ammunition facility just outside the capital, causing a series of explosions and sending clouds of smoke into the night sky.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Israel carried out its deadliest strikes in months on northern Syria’s Aleppo province today and said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, stepping up its campaign against Iran’s proxies in parallel with its war in Gaza.

MAMATLAKALA, South Africa,  (Reuters) – A bus crash in northern South Africa killed 45 pilgrims travelling from Botswana for Easter festivities yesterday, authorities said, with the sole survivor an eight-year-old girl currently being treated in hospital.