Senegal health minister sacked after babies die in hospital fire
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal President Macky Sall on Thursday sacked his health minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, a government decree showed, ...
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Israeli soldier deliberately shot Al Jazeera reporter, Palestinian official says
By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority said on Thursday its investigation into the killing of ...
Exclusive-U.S. and Ukraine discuss danger of escalation as new arms extend Kyiv’s reach
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the United States and its allies provide Ukraine with increasingly ...
Spain’s Congress passes bill qualifying all non-consensual sex as rape
MADRID (Reuters) -Spain's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a bill that qualifies all non-consensual sex as rape in ...
Pakistan hikes fuel prices to unlock IMF funding
By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam and Asif Shahzad KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan on Thursday announced it will hike fuel prices so ...
Iraq makes it illegal to attempt normalising ties with Israel
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament approved a law on Thursday that will ban normalizing relations with Israel, at a time ...
Britain’s BBC moves channels online to cut costs
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's BBC will move its children's CBBC channel and culture-focused BBC 4 online and merge its global and ...
Turkey says military operations on southern borders needed for security
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's current and future military operations on its southern borders do not target its neighbours' sovereignty but ...
WHO condemns Russia’s aggression in Ukraine in rare vote, rejects Moscow’s counter-proposal
By Emma Farge, Jennifer Rigby and Mrinalika Roy GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization assembly passed a motion on ...
COVID-hit Shanghai heads for lockdown exit but China still lost in economic gloom
By Ryan Woo and Stella Qiu BEIJING (Reuters) -Pandemic-hit Shanghai, China's financial hub, unveiled more post-lockdown plans on Thursday as ...
Black Sea ports still the best way to get Ukraine’s grain moving fast
(Corrects typographical error in media identifier. Text unchanged.) By Pavel Polityuk, Felix Hoske and Stefaniia Bern CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine ...
Putin says ‘Thank God’ some foreign companies have left Russia
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was glad some foreign companies had left ...
Globalization’s cheerleaders grasp for new buzzwords at Davos
By Dan Burns and Leela de Kretser DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - World leaders, financiers and chief executives said they were ...
Heavy fighting as Congo tries to fend off resurgent M23 rebels
By Djaffar Al Katanty GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Heavy fighting raged in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on ...
Iran says minimal but good progress made in relations with Saudi
DAVOS (Reuters) - Iran has made "minimal but good progress" in relations with Saudi Arabia, Iran foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian ...
UK’s Johnson salutes ‘Elizabeth the Great’ ahead of queen’s Platinum Jubilee
LONDON (Reuters) -Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other British political leaders paid tribute to "remarkable" Queen Elizabeth on Thursday ahead ...
More UK Conservatives pull support from Boris Johnson over ‘partygate’
LONDON (Reuters) -Three lawmakers from Britain's governing Conservatives pulled their support for Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday over a ...
U.S. seizes Iranian oil cargo near Greek island – sources
By Jonathan Saul, Lefteris Papadimas and Renee Maltezou LONDON/ATHENS (Reuters) -The United States has confiscated Iranian oil held on a ...
Blast tears through Kabul mosque, killing at least five
KABUL (Reuters) -A blast tore through a mosque in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday evening, killing at least five people, authorities ...
India’s Kashmir sees upsurge in violence, tense after separatist convicted
By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Indian security forces have killed six militants in Kashmir in the past 24 hours ...