N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Thousands of Sudanese refugees who fled to Chad to escape fighting in their country could be cut off from humanitarian and medical aid during the approaching rainy season, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Monday. More than 100,000 people have fled across the border to Chad since conflict broke out…
By Cristiano Corvino MILAN (Reuters) -Supporters of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi gathered outside his villa near Milan on a rainy Tuesday morning to honour the billionaire who dominated Italy’s politics, business and soccer world for nearly three decades. Berlusconi aged 86, three days after his readmission to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, where…
By Max Hunder KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine (Reuters) -Eleven civilians were killed in a Russian missile attack that struck an apartment building and warehouses in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, local officials said. Emergency services said four were killed in the apartment block and seven at the warehouses, where officials said…
BUCHAREST(Reuters) – Romanian prosecutors said on Tuesday that social media influencer Andrew Tate, his brother Tristan and two other suspects were being investigated for human trafficking in continued form, saying it was a more serious crime than separate counts of trafficking. The Tate brothers and two Romanian female suspects are under house arrest pending a…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Monday finalized a deal to preserve the federal mandate requiring U.S. health insurers to cover preventive care like cancer screenings and HIV-preventing medication at no extra cost to patients while a legal challenge continues. The agreement, first disclosed on Friday and now finalized in a filing…
By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) – When Pixar Animation Studios releases its 27th feature film in theaters on Friday, the pioneering studio behind blockbuster movies such as “Toy Story,” “Cars” and “Finding Nemo” will be under pressure to demonstrate it has not lost its Midas touch. The stakes are high for “Elemental,” a…
By Ann Saphir and Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – Federal Reserve officials sit down Tuesday for their first meeting in 15 months with no pre-determined interest rate hike on the table in what amounts to the debut gathering of the “will-they-or-won’t-they” era. With still-too-hot inflation riding their heels but abundant uncertainty about both the economic…
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine reported more gains in the early stages of its counteroffensive on Tuesday, but said Russian forces were “doing everything” they can to defend the territory they have occupied. Deputy Defence Minister said Ukrainian troops had advanced 250 metres (275 yards) near the small eastern city of Bakhmut, 200 metres on the…
By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday he had rejected a plea from Boris Johnson to overrule an independent body and allow some of the former leader’s allies to join parliament’s upper chamber because he didn’t think it was right. Responding to critics within his ruling Conservative Party, which…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith has said former President Donald Trump will have a “speedy trial” in Miami on a 37-count indictment charging him with willfully retaining classified government records and obstructing justice. But the complexities of handling highly classified evidence, the degree to which Trump’s legal team…
