KAMPALA (Reuters) – The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump in Uganda’s capital Kampala has risen to 13, police said on Sunday, as rescue personnel continued to dig for survivors. After torrential rain in recent weeks a chunk of garbage from the city’s only landfill site broke off late on Friday,…
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City school compound housing displaced Palestinian families killed around 100 people, the Gaza Civil Emergency Service said on Saturday. Israel said around 20 militants had been operating at the compound. Video from the site showed body parts scattered around and more bodies being carried…
MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippine military said on Saturday it strongly condemns “dangerous and provocative actions” by China’s air force at a contested shoal in the South China Sea. It was the first time the Philippines has complained of dangerous actions by Chinese aircraft, as opposed to navy or coast guard vessels, since President Ferdinand Marcos…
By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -Russia moved extra tanks, artillery and rocket systems to its southern Kursk region and imposed anti-terrorism measures in border areas as it battled a shock incursion by Ukraine’s military. Ukrainian forces, meanwhile, posted a video purporting to show them in control of a town near the border, the first pictorial evidence…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -A plane with 62 people on board crashed in Vinhedo, Brazil, on Friday, local TV station GloboNews reported. The ATR-72 plane operated by airline Voepass Linhas Areas was en route from Cascavel, in the state of Parana, to Guarulhos, in Sao Paulo, website G1 said, citing Voepass. Sao Paulo’s state fire brigade…
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino told broadcaster CNN on Friday he would give Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro safe passage to act as a “bridge” to a third country in order to allow for a political transition in Venezuela. Maduro has claimed victory in his reelection bid late last month, but the political…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has indicted two Iranian citizens and one Pakistani citizen for providing material support to what the U.S. Justice Department called Iran’s weapons of mass destruction program. The two Iranians charged are brothers who work for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the department said in a statement on Thursday. The…
By Marianna Parraga, Deisy Buitrago and Mircely Guanipa CARACAS/MARACAY (Reuters) -Griselda Ascanio keeps an improvised wood-burning stove ready in her backyard in Maracay, 120 kilometers (75 miles) from Venezuela’s capital, for the frequent gas-supply interruptions that make it difficult to cook. “We cannot just cry about it,” said the 44-year-old administrator, who collects branches that…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States will give an extra $203 million to help millions of civilians affected by the war in Sudan, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Thursday, calling on other nations to step up their aid. The funds, announced in a statement to Reuters…
(Reuters) – China expressed strong opposition on Saturday to a U.S. law signed by President Joe Biden that presses Beijing to resolve a dispute over Tibet’s demands for greater autonomy, vowing to “firmly defend” its interests. Biden signed into law on Friday the Tibet dispute act, which seeks to push Beijing to hold talks with…
