THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The World Court on July 19 and 20 will hear a request by the Netherlands and Canada that it order Syria to cease all acts of torture and arbitrary detention, as part of a case alleging the country has breached a U.N. anti-torture treaty. The hearing at the Peace Palace, the…
By Charlie Devereux MADRID (Reuters) -Alberto Nunez Feijoo likes to cultivate a reputation for dullness – and it’s a personality trait that could help give him the upper hand this month in a tight contest to become Spain’s next leader. “What for some may be boring, I think for the majority of citizens are qualities…
By Belén Carreño, Andrei Khalip MADRID (Reuters) -Pedro Sanchez’s reputation as a risk-taker precedes him, but a snap national election he has called for this month represents the Spanish prime minister’s biggest political gamble yet. The bold move, made in late May after his Socialist Party (PSOE) did badly in local ballots, took senior members…
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine would welcome receiving cluster munitions from the United States because they would have an “extraordinary psycho-emotional impact” on Russian forces, a senior Ukrainian official said on Friday. Three U.S officials speaking on condition of anonymity this week said a weapons aid package that includes cluster munitions fired by…
HOLA PRYSTAN, Russian-controlled Ukraine (Reuters) – Walking through what remains of his home, Leonid Garul points to the ceiling and the walls to show where the floodwaters reached last month when the massive Kakhovka dam was breached in southern Ukraine. A former sitting room now resembles a junkyard, with couches, tables and other bits of…
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Friday its troops had advanced by more than a kilometre near the eastern city of Bakhmut in the past day of fighting against Russian forces. The comments were the latest by Kyiv signalling that the counteroffensive it launched in early June is gradually making progress although Russian accounts of fighting…
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The police showed up two days after a Catholic clergyman at a church near the Nicaraguan capital Managua delivered a Sunday sermon in May that included a prayer “for our priests.” The officers played an audio clip of the prayer and warned: These kinds of things are…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping, on an inspection tour of a major industrial province, renewed his call for greater innovation and technological self-reliance, as the United States intensifies curbs on Chinese access to advanced technologies. China should accelerate the upgrades of key technologies and core products, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Friday,…
By Tassilo Hummel WOIPPY, France (Reuters) – After a bout of street unrest just over a decade ago, the Woippy suburb of the northeastern city of Metz secured state funding to improve housing, refurbish streets and even create a riverside beach and educational farm complete with beehives and a llama. But such spending, part of…
By Hyunsu Yim and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea said on Friday Japan’s plan to discharge treated radioactive water from its tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant met global safety standards and it respected the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s approval for the release. Japan plans to soon start releasing more than a million tons of treated…
