By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Tuesday said gun violence was tearing apart U.S. communities after mass shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Fort Worth claimed the lives of at least 10 people ahead of the Fourth of July holiday. Much more action is needed to “address the epidemic of gun violence that…
By Jeff Mason and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A white powder found inside the White House late on Sunday was identified by Washington’s fire department and emergency services as cocaine, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The source said the powder was found in the West Wing, but gave no further details….
By Mohamad Torokman and Raneen Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – The family of 16-year-old Noureddin Marshoud wept over his body as it laid in a morgue in Jenin on Tuesday, after he was killed during an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank. Marshoud was named by the militant Islamic Jihad group as…
By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO on Tuesday extended Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s contract by another year, opting to stick with an experienced leader rather than try to agree on a successor as war rages on the alliance’s doorstep. Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway, has been the transatlantic security alliance’s leader since 2014…
BONDY, France (Reuters) – In the down-at-heel Paris suburb of Bondy, where Kylian Mbappe grew up, some residents have looked to the 24-year-old France soccer star for guidance on how to react to a wave of rioting in their community and many others like it. The violence was triggered by the fatal police shooting on…
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted an eight-year-old girl in the Kremlin on Tuesday and got her to join him in a bizarre phone call to his finance minister to ask for a budget grant for her home region. The Kremlin released video of Putin welcoming the girl, Raisat Akipova, in the latest of…
(Reuters) -Israel unleashed a major raid on July 3 on Jenin refugee camp, a Palestinian militant stronghold in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, killing at least 10 Palestinians in clashes with gunmen. Here is what you need to know about Jenin: WHY IS ISRAEL ATTACKING JENIN? Since March 2022, Jenin and outlying areas in the north…
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is set to begin pumping out more than a million tonnes of treated water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant this summer, a process that will take decades to complete. The water was distilled after being contaminated from contact with fuel rods at the reactor, destroyed in a 2011 earthquake….
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian officials said at least 38 people, including 12 children, were wounded in a Russian missile strike on Tuesday which an officer said targeted a military funeral in the northeastern Kharkiv region. Television footage from the small town of Pervomaiskyi showed a tall residential building with smashed windows and black smoke pouring…
ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis’ peace envoy for Ukraine, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, said on Tuesday he is working on a “mechanism” that could ensure the return of children who according to Kyiv have been abducted to Russia. “We’ll see how we can start the mechanism for the children (and) help as we have said on…