Zelenskiy calls for peace talks with Moscow, urges Swiss to target oligarchs
Lviv/Odessa, Ukraine Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Saturday for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow and also urged Switzerland to do more to crack down on Russian oligarchs who he said were helping wage war on his country with their money. British intelligence warned that Russia, frustrated by its failure to achieve its objectives […]
Erdogan opens huge suspension bridge linking Europe and Asia
Istanbul, TurkeyReuters President Tayyip Erdogan opened a massive suspension bridge across Turkey’s Dardanelles Strait on Friday, the latest in a series of major infrastructure projects which he has prioritised during his two decades in power. Connecting Turkey’s European and Asian shores, the 1915 Canakkale Bridge was built by Turkish and South Korean firms with an […]
Dead buildings tower over uncollected corpses in Mariupol, on the front line of Ukraine’s war
Mariupol, Ukraine Reuters In Mariupol daily life is a series of harrowing escapes from bomb blasts and basic survival rituals, amid the rubble that lies everywhere. Uncollected corpses wrapped in blankets, coats or any available covering lie in courtyards cleared of debris. Those killed are often buried in common graves. A woman reacts while speaking […]
Cubans frantic to migrate as economy falters, new hurdles arise
Havana, CubaReuters Bray Perez, a 19-year-old Cuban university student, is fast losing friends to a growing wave of migration off the island. “Every time I go home, I find that 10 people have left,” said Perez, who studies in the capital Havana but hails from the nearby farm province of Mayabeque. “It’s hard to get […]
Asia’s youngest democracy East Timor heads to the polls
Dili, East TimorReuters Voters in East Timor head to the polls on Saturday, as Asia’s youngest democracy holds its fifth presidential elections since independence, with concerns over political stability and economic security at the forefront of the campaign. The 16 presidential hopefuls include former resistance fighter and incumbent President Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres, independence figure […]
A green island turns red: Madagascans struggle through long drought
ALKIS KONSTANTIDINIS and CHRISTOPHE VAN DER PERRE, of Reuters, report in a special photo essay on the drought facing the island nation off the east coast of Africa…
Ukraine war ripples to Yemen where no funds mean no food
Aden, YemenThomson Reuters Foundation Ali’s brittle legs stuck out awkwardly from a gray onesie that hung off him, although it was meant for his age. At three months old, the Yemeni infant has already spent a third of his life fighting to keep it. Ali was treated for acute malnutrition free of charge at the […]