Updated: Putin oversees nuclear drills, US says Russian forces “poised to strike” Ukraine
Updated: 10.45 (AEDT)Moscow, RussiaReuters Russia’s strategic nuclear forces held exercises overseen by President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, and Washington accused Russian troops massed near Ukraine’s border of advancing and being “poised to strike”. With Western fears of war rising, the White House said US President Joe Biden’s national security team told him they still believed […]
Storm Eunice batters Europe, killing at least nine
London, UKReuters An Atlantic storm battered northwestern European on Friday with record winds of up to 122 miles per hour, killing at least nine people, knocking out power for tens of thousands and shredding the roof of London’s O2 arena. Storm Eunice, which brewed in the central Atlantic and was spun up from the Azores […]
Builders find 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery in Gaza
Gaza, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters A 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery containing at least 20 ornately decorated graves has been uncovered near the shoreline in the northern Gaza Strip, with the antiquities ministry calling it the most important local discovery of the past decade. Gaza is rich with antiquities having been an important trading spot for many civilisations, from […]
A Chilean Indigenous language vanishes as last native speaker dies
Santiago, ChileReuters An Indigenous language from South America’s extreme south has all but vanished after the death of its last living speaker and guardian of its ancestral culture. A woman holds a picture of Cristina Calderon, 93, also known as Kuluana Cristina (grandmother Cristina), the last woman from a tribe Yagan and speaker of this […]
Explainer – Why has France been at war for a decade in the West African desert?
Dakar, SenegalReuters France and military allies are leaving Mali after using it for almost a decade as a base for fighting Islamist insurgents who continue to wreak havoc and control swathes of territory around West Africa. Which groups are present?Islamists including al-Qaeda’s North African wing AQIM hijacked a Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali in 2012. […]
Lawyers: papal decrees violated fraud suspects’ human rights
Vatican CityAP Defence lawyers in the Vatican’s fraud and extortion trial on Friday accused Pope Francis of violating their clients’ human rights by issuing four secret, executive decrees that gave prosecutors free reign to investigate in ways that deprived the suspects of basic legal guarantees. The lawyers argued that the resulting trial into the Vatican’s […]
Call for action: Iraq Yazidis want Big Tech held to account for Islamic State crimes
Social media companies should be investigated over posts in which abducted Yazidi women and girls were trafficked by IS militants, activists and lawyers say. MAYA GEBEILY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Brazil’s Bolsonaro says Petropolis mudslide destruction looks like war zone
Petropolis, Brazil Reuters Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that the destruction in the mudslide disaster that killed at least 123 people in Petropolis looked like the mountain city had been hit by a war. “I saw intense destruction. It looked almost like there had been a war,” Bolsonaro said after flying over the […]