Ethiopia combatants sign deal to start implementing truce
Nairobi, KenyaReuters The Ethiopian Government and Tigrayan forces on Saturday signed an agreement laying out the roadmap for implementation of a peace deal that both sides reached in South Africa this month. Representatives from the Ethiopian Government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front have been meeting in Nairobi since Monday to reach agreement on various […]
Ukraine troops greeted with flowers in Kherson after Russian retreat
Klapaya, Ukraine Reuters Villagers holding flowers waited on the road to the southern city of Kherson to greet and kiss Ukrainian soldiers on Saturday as they poured in to secure control of the right bank of the Dnipro River after a stunning Russian retreat. Volleys of incoming and outgoing artillery fire continued to blast around […]
Drone taxi take first spin in air traffic near Paris
Paris, France Reuters An electric helicopter with multiple rotors took its first flight in conventional air traffic near Paris on Thursday as it prepares for commercial flights from 2024. The Volocopter test aircraft, which resembles a large drone with eight rotors, took off with a passenger on board from the Pontoise-Cormeilles airfield outside Paris and […]
Ethiopia says Tigray aid allowed, agencies say still no access
Nairobi, KenyaReuters Ethiopia’s government said on Friday that international aid was “allowed and ready” to move into Tigray, after humanitarian agencies said they were still awaiting access to the war-ravaged region nine days after a truce was declared. Under the ceasefire agreement signed on 2nd November with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which controls the […]
A third of humanity face life in climate hotspots, scientists warn
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Thomson Reuters Foundation About 1.6 billion people now live in climate change “vulnerability hotspots”, a number that could double by 2050 if fossil fuels continue being used at the rate they are today, scientists warned at the COP27 UN climate talks in Egypt. That would put a third of the world’s population […]
Village near Kherson rejoices at Russian rout, recalls life under occupation
Blahodatne, Ukraine Reuters The Russians left Blahodatne in the same direction from which they came, pulling out of the remote Ukrainian village under cover of darkness to join the rest of their force retreating across the Dnipro River. Only a handful of residents remained through more than eight months of occupation, and after Ukrainian forces […]
ASEAN leaders call for timeline on Myanmar peace
Phnom Penh, CambodiaReuters South-East Asian heads of government on Friday issued a “warning” to Myanmar to make measurable progress on a peace plan or risk being barred from the bloc’s meetings, as social and political chaos escalates in the country. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations said that after “little progress” on the five-point peace […]
US midterms: Christian voter trends reinforced on abortion, GOP
DAVID CRARY, PETER SMITH and NUHA DOLBY, of Associated Press, report on what the data shows about evangelical and Catholic voter trends…
US blocks more than 1,000 solar shipments over Chinese slave labour concerns
Reuters More than 1,000 shipments of solar energy components worth hundreds of millions of dollars have piled up at US ports since June under a new law banning imports from China’s Xinjiang region over concerns about slave labour, according to federal customs officials and industry sources. The level of seizures, which has not previously been […]