By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -A campaign to raise money for the family of the policeman who shot dead French teenager Nahel M. topped 1.47 million euros($1.6 million) on Tuesday, far outstripping donations to Nahel’s family and causing shame and anger among many French people. The fallout from the shooting, and from the wave of…
By Krishn Kaushik and YP Rajesh NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Tuesday sought to forge closer ties and boost cooperation within the expanding Eurasian bloc but stressed the group is not directed against any other states. A joint declaration by the leaders at the end of an online summit…
By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) – The Church of England’s governing body will deliberate on how priests could carry out blessings for same-sex couples when it gathers in the cathedral city of York for a five-day meeting on Friday. The assembly of bishops, clergy and laity – called the General Synod – is also due…
By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -Armed masked men attacked and seriously injured a prominent female Russian journalist and a lawyer in the Russian region of Chechnya on Tuesday morning after forcing their car to stop, the journalist, her employer and rights groups said. Yelena Milashina, a well-known journalist for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was travelling to…
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli lawmakers on Tuesday gave an initial nod to a bill that limits Supreme Court power to rule against the government after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he would press on with contentious changes to the justice system. In a stormy session broadcast live, Parliament’s constitution committee, dominated by Netanyahu’s…
By Stephanie van den Berg and Maya Gebeily THE HAGUE/BEIRUT (Reuters) – In the early years of Syria’s brutal conflict, top government officials established and directed paramilitary groups known as shabbiha to help the state crack down on opponents, war crimes investigators have documented. In a report shared with Reuters, the Commission for International Justice…
By Boldizsar Gyori BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that he had been in touch with his Turkish counterpart about a ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership and if there is a shift in Turkey’s stance Hungary will not delay the process. Sweden, dropping a longtime policy of military non-alignment following Russia’s invasion…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday welcomed NATO’s decision to extend Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s term by a further year, opting to stick with an experienced leader as war continues to rage on the alliance’s doorstep rather than try to agree on a successor. Stoltenberg, a former prime minister…
By Anna Voitenko and Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey KYIV (Reuters) – Tearful mourners filled one of central Kyiv’s main cathedrals on Tuesday to honour a prominent Ukrainian writer and war-crimes researcher killed in a Russian missile strike on a cafe in eastern Ukraine. Victoria Amelina, 37, died on July 1 from injuries sustained during the June 27…
By Sakura Murakami and John Geddie TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan won approval from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog on Tuesday for its plan to release treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima plant into the ocean, despite fierce resistance from Beijing and some local residents. After a two-year review, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Japan’s…