Kazakhstan mourns 14 forestry workers killed in wildfire
Almaty, KazakhstanReuters Flags were lowered across Kazakhstan on Monday as the country mourned 14 forestry workers killed in a wildfire in the eastern Abai region. Firefighters were still struggling to contain the blaze raging across 43,000 hectares (106,000 acres) of land in the Central Asian nation, the government said. An aerial view shows smoke from wildfires rising […]
Trump arrives in Florida to face charges, maintains lead in poll
Miami, FloridaReuters Former President Donald Trump arrived in Miami on Monday to face federal criminal charges, while a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found a vast majority of his fellow Republicans believe the case to be politically motivated. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election, is scheduled to be in a Miami […]
Sudan war traps civilians after ceasefire ends
Khartoum, SudanReuters Air strikes, artillery and gunfire rocked several areas of Sudan’s capital on Monday as fighting between warring factions intensified for a second day, trapping civilians in a worsening humanitarian crisis. The war between the country’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has raged for almost two months, forcing almost 2 million to flee […]
Ukraine claims new gains in early phase of counter-offensive
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine said on Monday its troops had recaptured seven villages from Russian forces along an approximately 100-kilometre front in the south-east since launching its long-anticipated counter-offensive last week. The task of ending Moscow’s occupation of southern and eastern Ukraine is daunting, given Russia’s numerical superiority in men, ammunition and air power, and the […]
Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian Prime Minister and media mogul, dies at 86
Milan, ItalyReuters Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul and former Italian Prime Minister who transformed the nation’s politics with polarising policies and often alarmed his allies with his brazen remarks, died on Monday aged 86. Berlusconi, Italy’s longest-serving premier who counted Russian President Vladimir Putin as a close friend and gained notoriety for his “bunga […]
The global nuclear arsenal grew last year, SIPRI says
Stockholm, Sweden Reuters The number of operational nuclear weapons rose slightly in 2022 as countries implemented long-term force modernisation and expansion plans, a leading conflict thinktank said on Monday, warning that the world was entering a dangerous phase. A Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system drives in Red Square during a military parade on Victory […]
New Zealand’s national broadcaster probes “inappropriate” editing of Ukraine war stories
Wellington, New ZealandReuters New Zealand’s national radio broadcaster has launched an investigation and put a staff member on leave after it said a series of news stories on its website about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had been edited to present “a false account of events”. Radio New Zealand, which is government funded but has editorial independence, […]
Spain to begin exhumation of 128 Civil War victims from burial complex – media
Madrid, SpainReuters Forensic scientists will on Monday begin the exhumation of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from a vast burial complex near Madrid, El Pais newspaper reported. It will be the first exhumation of its kind involving people whose bodies were moved from elsewhere after the 1936-1939 war and reburied without their families’ […]
Firefighters make progress, bring some Quebec wildfires under control
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Reuters The number of wildfires raging out of control across Quebec dropped on Sunday as firefighters in the Canadian province gained the upper hand in some areas, a provincial minister said on Sunday. Quebec Natural Resources Minister Maite Blanchette Vezina said told reporters that the number of out-of-control fires in the eastern […]
Children who survived five weeks in Colombia jungle will tell own story: father
Bogota, ColombiaReuters Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia’s southern jungle will tell their own story about the ordeal, the father of the two youngest siblings said on Sunday. The children, aged one through 13, survived a 1st May plane crash that killed their mother and two other adults […]