By Marco Garcia and Mike Blake MAALAEA, Hawaii (Reuters) -The death toll from the Maui wildfires rose to 80 on Friday as search teams combed through the smoldering ruins of Lahaina, and Hawaiian officials sought to determine how the inferno spread so rapidly through the historic resort town with little warning. The fires became the…
By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) -West Africa’s ECOWAS bloc aims to send a parliamentary committee to Niger to meet coup leaders who seized power last month, a spokesperson said on Saturday, part of a last ditch regional effort to restore civilian rule that includes religious leaders. Niger’s military last month imprisoned President Mohamed Bazoum and…
(Reuters) -Ukrainian military officials said on Saturday that Kyiv’s forces had made progress in the south, capturing unspecified territories and claiming partial success near the key village of Robotyne. “Tavria direction,” General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of Ukrainian forces in the south, wrote on Telegram, referring to the southern front. “There are liberated territories. The defence…
By Tim Reid DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – Republican presidential rivals Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis were holding competing events in the early nominating state of Iowa on Saturday, at a time when the former president overwhelmingly dominates opinion polls and the Florida governor is scrambling to reset his troubled campaign. DeSantis, who has had…
(Reuters) – A civilian was killed and six people were wounded, including a 12-year-old girl, following intense Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk, including cluster munitions, a Russian-installed official in the eastern Ukrainian region said on Saturday. One civilian was killed in a district of the city of Donetsk, while the six wounded people were in Makiivka,…
By Jarrett Renshaw and Nandita Bose (Reuters) -The appointment on Friday of a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden ensures that the criminal probe of the president’s son will cast a long shadow over his father’s reelection campaign. Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ new role as special counsel, announced on Friday, may force President Joe…
By Aditya Kalra and Munsif Vengattil NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s Adani Ports on Saturday said Deloitte’s reason for quitting as auditor of the company was “not convincing or sufficient to warrant such a move” and the global firm had all the necessary information it required to conduct the process. Deloitte decided to resign from the…
By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and opposition leader Raja Riaz agreed on Saturday to name Senator Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar as caretaker premier to oversee elections, the Prime Minister’s office said. Kakar, 52, a little-known politician from the southwestern province of Balochistan, will name a cabinet and head a government…
By Alexandra Ulmer and Joseph Tanfani (Reuters) – As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis scrambles to shore up his struggling run for the Republican presidential nomination, he has spent far more than any rival on courting an influential Christian conservative leader and his following in the key early voting state of Iowa. Trailing far behind former…
By Pascal Rossignol CALAIS, France (Reuters) -Six people died after a migrant boat trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain capsized early on Saturday, and another two people were possibly missing, French authorities said. French and UK rescue boats saved nearly 60 migrants and brought them to French or British shores, and search…
