Civil Unrest

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti became Latin America and the Caribbean's first independent state of the colonial era and the first...

Americas

‘Peru wants a president’: Thousands march in Lima as election result drags

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets on Tuesday to protest uncertainty over the...

Austria

German police raid homes of suspected accomplices to Vienna attacker

BERLIN (Reuters) -German police on Wednesday raided the living quarters of two suspected accomplices of a jihadist who killed four...

Afghanistan

In Tehran talks, Iran offers help to resolve Afghan crisis

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran on Wednesday told Taliban and Afghan government representatives it stood ready to help end the crisis...

ASEAN Countries

Singapore says ASEAN aims to speed up plan to end Myanmar crisis

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was working to expedite the implementation of a five-point consensus...

Americas

Blinken calls for indefinite ceasefire in call with Ethiopia’s Abiy

By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy...

Advocacy Groups / Pressure Groups / Lobbies

For Turkey’s LGBT+ community, discrimination said to loom larger

(Corrects how Hakiki identifies and makes clear references are to the broader LGBT+ rather than transgender community) By Ece Toksabay...

Civil Unrest

Nicaragua detains another five opposition leaders, as Ortega ups the ante

(Reuters) - Nicaraguan police have detained at least five opposition leaders, including a presidential hopeful, deepening a sweeping crackdown of...

ASIA

Estonia decries detention of diplomat in Russia

MOSCOW/VILNIUS (Reuters) -Estonia accused Russia on Tuesday of detaining one of its diplomats after a "set-up" designed to make him...

Civil Unrest

Spanish police arrest three over suspected homophobic killing

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Tuesday they had arrested three men over the killing of Samuel Luiz, who...

ASIA

Estonian diplomat’s detention in Russia “a set-up”, Estonia says

By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Estonia said the reported detention of one of its diplomats by Russia's Federal Security...

Americas

Scholar by day, street-sweeper by night, one Black man navigates Rio’s racial divide

By Pilar Olivares and Jimin Kang RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Felipe Luther spends his afternoons studying for a degree...

Civil Unrest

Hundreds of Ghana opposition supporters march in protest at killings

By Christian Akorlie ACCRA (Reuters) - Hundreds of opposition supporters marched through the streets of Ghana's capital Accra on Tuesday...

Civil Unrest

Factbox-Jordan security trial sheds light on palace intrigue

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's security court will pass a verdict on July 12 in the case against...

Children / Youth Issues

Spain says non-consensual sex is rape, toughens sexual violence laws

By Belén Carreño and Nathan Allen MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government approved a law on Tuesday to define all...

Afghanistan

Servicemen who fled Taliban to Tajikistan being brought back to fight -Afghan gov’t

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security personnel who fled into Tajikistan are being brought back to rejoin the fight against Taliban...

Aid Relief / Humanitarian Agencies

Tigray rebel chief calls for political solution to conflict in Ethiopia

By Maggie Fick NAIROBI (Reuters) - The commander of rebel forces in Tigray on Tuesday called for a negotiated ceasefire...

ASIA

Hong Kong police arrest nine suspected of terrorist activities

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police said on Tuesday they had arrested nine people, including six secondary students, on...

Aerospace / Defense

Philippines retrieves black boxes from crashed military plane

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities have retrieved both the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from an...

Afghanistan

Tajikistan calls up reservists to bolster border as Afghan troops, fleeing Taliban, seek refuge