By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -U.N. aid agencies on Tuesday voiced alarm at the scale of the ongoing Israeli military operation in the West Bank town of Jenin, where 10 Palestinians have been killed, saying there were restrictions on medical access. The operation, which involved drone strikes and hundreds of troops and was one of…
By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s foreign ministry summoned Georgia’s ambassador on Tuesday to protest against the treatment of jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, and told him to go back to Tbilisi to resolve the situation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the Georgian authorities on Monday to allow Saakashvili, who has Ukrainian citizenship,…
(This July 3 story has been corrected to fix the name of China’s ambassador to Feng, not Fang, in paragraph 1) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen and Xie Feng, China’s ambassador to the United States, met on Monday ahead of Yellen’s scheduled visit to Beijing this week, according to a statement…
(Reuters) – Fierce battles broke out on Tuesday across Omdurman, the western part of Sudan’s wider capital, as the army tried cut off supply routes used by its paramilitary rivals to bring reinforcements into the city. The army launched air strikes and heavy artillery, and there were ground battles in several parts of Omdurman, witnesses…
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin reassured Asian leaders of Russia’s stability and unity on Tuesday in his first appearance at an international forum since the country was rocked by a brief armed mutiny last month. “The Russian people are consolidated as never before,” Putin told a virtual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a…
By Steve Gorman and Gabriella Borter LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Thousands of Los Angeles-area hotel workers went on strike on Sunday demanding pay hikes and improved benefits in a region where high housing costs make it difficult for low-wage earners to live close to where they hold jobs, union officials said. Unite Here Local 11, which…
(Reuters) -Four people were killed and two were injured in a shooting on Monday night in Philadelphia, and a suspect was taken into custody, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a late night news conference. The suspect, a man believed to be 40-years-old, did not appear to have any connection to the victims, Outlaw…
By Layli Foroudi PARIS (Reuters) -Sports teacher Benjamin Belaidi held a banner reading “no justice, no peace” as he marched in memory of the teenager shot dead by French police, weary of what he described as repressive policing and an absent state in city suburbs. The 38-year-old Belaidi, who grew up in one of the…
(Reuters) – The United States has condemned vandalism against the Indian consulate in the city of San Francisco, a State Department spokesman said, after a report of a protest at the mission by supporters of a separate state for the Sikh community. Sikh separatists tried to set fire to the consulate on the weekend, Reuters…
PARIS (Reuters) -Defiant gatherings were held outside town halls across France on Monday following a wave of rioting triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager of north African descent. Here is some key information about the unrest: WHERE ARE THE RIOTS? There was very little rioting overnight on Sunday and police made fewer…