Haiti protests over fuel shortages go on even as deliveries resume
Port-au-Prince Reuters Haitian demonstrators on Thursday burned tyres and blocked streets of the capital to protest ongoing fuel shortages even as the country’s main fuel terminal renewed deliveries that had been suspended due to an outbreak of gang violence. Rights activists say nearly 90 people have been killed since a turf war broke out last […]
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Ukraine condemns Russia strike that killed 23 in “ordinary, peaceful” city
Vnnytsia, Ukraine Reuters Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia far behind the frontlines on Thursday in an attack which Ukrainian officials called a war crime and said had killed at least 23 people, including three children. The strike, which Ukraine said had been carried out with Kalibr cruise missiles launched from a Russian […]
Sri Lankan President hands in resignation after fleeing to Singapore
Colombo, Sri Lanka/Singapore Reuters Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa submitted a letter of resignation on Thursday, a spokesperson for the parliament speaker said, hours after fleeing to Singapore following mass protests over an economic meltdown. The announcement triggered jubilation in the commercial capital Colombo where protesters massed outside the presidential secretariat, defying a city-wide curfew. […]
Ancestral ties: India avidly watching British leadership race
Mumbai, IndiaReuters Half a world away from the political drama in London, many Indians are closely following the twists and turns of who replaces Boris Johnson as British prime minister, curious to see how two candidates with Indian ancestry fare. Rishi Sunak, the bookmakers’ favourite to prevail, and Suella Braverman are campaigning for the Conservative […]
Sardinian farmers suffer worst locust invasion in over 30 years
Milan, ItalyReuters When farmer Rita Tolu saw “a big black wave storming across the horizon and taking over the fields” in April, she knew that little of her dried fodder and alfalfa crops would be left in the following days. A swarm of locusts are seen on a field on the island of Sardinia, in […]
Table Talk: Bread and the Bible
EMMA WATSON looks at the role bread plays in both the Old and New Testaments – and provides her own simple recipe…
Scorching heat wave sparks wildfires in Europe
Leiria, Portugal Reuters Thousands of firefighters battled more than 20 blazes that raged on Wednesday across Portugal and western Spain, menacing villages and disrupting tourists’ holidays amid a heat wave that pushed temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius in some parts of Europe. In France, hundreds of firefighters, supported by six water-bomber aircraft, battled two wildfires […]
Lithuania will allow sanctioned Russian goods trade to Kaliningrad
Vilnius, LithuaniaReuters European Union member Lithuania will allow sanctioned Russian goods to transit its territory on their way to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, its Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, reversing its policy after new European Commission guidelines. The new guidelines on Wednesday followed weeks of tension among Moscow, Lithuania and the European Union that tested Europe’s […]
Biden savours Israel “homecoming” as high-wire Saudi leg looms
Jerusalem, IsraelReuters Israel embraced US President Joe Biden as an old friend on Wednesday at the start of a high-stakes visit dominated by efforts to bring Israel closer to Saudi Arabia and persuade Washington’s Gulf allies to pump more oil. Landing at Ben Gurion Airport, whose runway he first trod in 1973 as a senator, […]