By Ali Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces hit the city of Jenin with drone strikes on Monday in one of the biggest West Bank operations in 20 years, killing at least eight Palestinians and involving hundreds of troops in sporadic gun battles that continued into the evening. Gunfire and explosions were heard throughout…
KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian drone attack killed at least two people and injured 19 in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Monday, prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to call for a major upgrade of anti-aircraft defences. An official building and two residential buildings were damaged in an attack carried out with four drones, the Sumy…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Police in Washington are offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information that could lead to the arrest of those involved in three explosions within a 15-minute span at retail outlets in the U.S. capital on Sunday. No one was killed or injured in the early hour blasts in…
(Reuters) -American ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy was granted access on Monday to jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the U.S. State Department said, in the second such visit since his pre-trial detention in March on espionage charges he denies. Tracy met with Gershkovich at Lefortovo Prison in Moscow in what was the first…
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Monday its troops had regained more ground along eastern and southern fronts in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described as progress in a “difficult” week for Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Russian forces. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar also noted a surge in fighting around the shattered eastern city of…
By Sinéad Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street stock indexes ended Monday’s shorter session up slightly along with U.S. Treasury yields, as investors weighed up a mixed bag of economic data ahead of second-quarter earnings and uncertainty over the direction of central bank policy. On Wall Street, Nasdaq led gains while the Dow was…
By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) – The Biden administration’s climate agenda is facing an unexpected challenge in drought-prone Corpus Christi, Texas, where a proposed clean hydrogen hub would require the installation of energy-intensive, expensive and potentially environmentally damaging seawater desalination plants. The Gulf Coast port is in the running for up to $1 billion available under…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two PGA Tour officials will testify before a U.S. Senate panel next week about the tour’s merger with Saudi-backed LIV Golf, but LIV officials declined to appear, lawmakers said on Monday. Ron Price, chief operating officer of the PGA Tour, and board member Jimmy Dunne have agreed to testify before the Senate Permanent…
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – The number of U.S. women who died within a year after pregnancy more than doubled between 1999 and 2019, with the highest deaths among Black women, researchers said on Monday. There were an estimated 1,210 maternal deaths in 2019, compared with 505 in 1999, according to a study published in…
By Brendan O’Brien and Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – A shooting at a holiday block party in Baltimore over the weekend that left two people dead and 28 injured highlights a sustained surge in mass shootings in the United States since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. As of Monday, 340 mass shootings have…