DUBAI (Reuters) – Jordan’s foreign minister on Thursday called on the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) to reverse a decision to cut food subsidies to Syrian refugees by Aug. 1. The WFP office in Amman told Reuters that an “unprecedented funding crisis” had forced it to cut food help for 50,000 out of some…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Andrea Gacki, a veteran U.S. Treasury official who helped design Washington’s Russia sanctions strategy, has been appointed director of the department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday. Gacki, who has headed the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) since 2019, “guided the office through major world…
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -A federal jury on Thursday decided that Robert Bowers was eligible for the death penalty for killing 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, local media reported. Last month, the jury found Bowers, 50, guilty of dozens of federal hate crimes…
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Fistfights broke out at the Kosovo parliament and water was thrown on the prime minister after a heated three-day public debate over an audio recording between a ruling party member and an official from the Serb-majority north. Kosovo’s opposition has long accused nationalist Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s handling of tensions in the…
DUBAI (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights office said on Thursday at least 87 people including women and children had been buried in a mass grave in Sudan’s West Darfur, saying it had credible information they were killed by the country’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF). RSF officials denied any involvement, saying the paramilitary group was…
By Corina Pons MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s postal service said it had enough staff to handle the country’s largest ever postal vote for snap elections due on July 23, as a union leader said it needed to hire more to ensure no one was at risk of being disenfranchised. Two and a half million out…
By Federica Urso ROME (Reuters) – A new Italian government scheme to help people with rising food bills is under attack from charities, sociologists and opposition politicians because it limits the type of households that can benefit and the types of food that can be bought. From July 18, Giorgia Meloni’s rightist government will distribute…
DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s navy has intercepted a boat with around 70 migrants risking the perilous Atlantic route to Spain, the army said on Thursday, the third reported crossing this week as attempts from West Africa pick up in the warmer summer months. The vessel was caught late on Wednesday night at the mouth of…
By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany on Thursday published its first and long-awaited China strategy which was unflinching in its appraisal of Beijing’s “increasing assertiveness” but vague on policy measures to reduce critical dependencies. The 64-page document comes amid a broader push in the West to reduce strategic dependencies on a China…
DUBAI (Reuters) -Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday agreed on initiating urgent negotiations to finalize an agreement between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the rules of its operations, a joint statement said. The statement mentioned the two leaders…
