Yemen’s warring parties agree only to renew two-month truce, UN says
Aden, Yemen Reuters Yemen’s warring sides agreed to renew a two-month truce expiring on Tuesday, the United Nations envoy said, despite international pressure for an extended and expanded deal that would build on the longest stretch of relative calm in over seven years. “This truce extension includes a commitment from the parties to intensify negotiations […]
Russia accuses US of direct Ukraine war role, grain ship anchors off Turkish coast
Istanbul, Turkey/London, UK Reuters Russia on Tuesday accused the United States of direct involvement in the Ukraine war while the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain to world markets since Moscow’s invasion anchored safely off Turkey’s coast after a problem-free journey. Russia said it was responding to comments by Vadym Skibitsky, Ukraine’s deputy head of military […]
Pelosi arrives in Taiwan vowing US commitment; China enraged
Taipei, TaiwanReuters US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan late on Tuesday on a trip she said shows an unwavering American commitment to the Chinese-claimed self-ruled island, but China condemned the highest-level US visit in 25 years as a threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. Pelosi and the rest […]
From subway stations to shopping malls, Taiwan prepares its air-raid shelters
Taipei, TaiwanReuters Taiwan is preparing its air-raid shelters as rising tension with China and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raise new fears about the possibility of a Chinese attack on the democratic island. China considers Taiwan its territory and has increased military activity in the air and seas around it. Taiwan vows to defend itself and […]
Nicaragua’s government shutters six church radio stations
Mexico City, MexicoAP Nicaraguan authorities ordered the closure of six radio stations belonging to the Roman Catholic Church on Monday and surrounded one with riot police, church officials said. Rev Rolando Álvarez, the Bishop of the northern province of Matagalpa, said during Mass that the he had received a letter from the tate telecommunications agency […]
From blast to banking crisis, one woman embodies Lebanon’s complete collapse
Beirut, LebanonReuters Liliane Cheaito’s scratchy, laboured breathing went on until a nurse appeared at her hospital bed, where the 28-year-old has spent nearly every moment of the last two years in silent suffering following the Beirut port explosion of 2020. Using a suctioning machine, the nurse emptied her lungs of built-up phlegm and Cheaito’s heaving […]
Chilean authorities investigate mysterious large sinkhole near copper mine
Santiago, ChileReuters Chilean authorities started investigating on Monday a mysterious sinkhole about 25 metres in diameter that appeared over the weekend in a mining area in the north of the country. Chilean media showed aerial images of the sinkhole on land operated by a Canadian Lundin Mining copper mine, about 665 kilometres north of capital […]
Biden, Putin strike conciliatory tones as nuclear arms talks start at UN
United NationsReuters US President Joe Biden said on Monday he is ready to pursue a new nuclear arms deal with Russia and called on Moscow to act in good faith as his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin said there could be no winners in any nuclear war. Both leaders issued written statements as diplomats gathered for a month-long UN conference […]
A deadly trade: ‘VIP trips’ cost migrants their lives in Texas smuggling tragedy
DAINA BETH SOLOMON, JACKIE BOTTS and LAURA GOTTESDIENER, of Reuters, trace the journeys of some of those who died recently in the back of a sweltering truck in Texas, providing what is a a rare window into the world of human smuggling…
Ukrainian church seeks Kirill’s removal over ‘heretical’ defence of Russian invasion
United StatesRNS Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine, has issued a letter to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, “first among equals” of Orthodox Christian leaders, asking Bartholomew to call Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, a teacher of heresy for his theological backing of the Ukraine war and deprive Kirill […]