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Kherson residents flee under artillery fire after collapsed Kakhovka dam floods homes
KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) – Distraught residents of Ukraine’s Kherson evacuated their homes under artillery fire on Tuesday after they were flooded by the rupture of a vast dam upstream in a disaster that Kyiv and...
Threat to whales complicates US research into seaweed for biofuel
CAPE COD BAY, Massachusetts (Reuters) – In Cape Cod Bay, 10-year-old Pilgrim and her calf skim the water’s glassy surface alongside the Shearwater research vessel to feed on tiny crustaceans. The two are among the last surviving 340 or so North Atlantic right whales left migrating along the U.S. East Coast – down from 480...
New York City sues Hyundai, Kia over vehicle thefts
NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City on Tuesday sued Hyundai Motor Co and Kia Corp, accusing the South Korean automakers of negligence and creating a public nuisance by selling vehicles that are too easy to steal. The most populous U.S. city joined several other major cities that have sued Hyundai and Kia over the thefts,...
At UN, Ukraine, Russia blame each other for burst dam, US ‘not certain’
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States said on Tuesday it was “not certain” who was to blame for a burst dam in Ukraine, but it would not make sense for Ukraine to have done this to its own people and territory, as Kyiv and Moscow blamed each other for the disaster. The 15-member U.N....
White House: US cannot conclusively determine cause of Ukrainian dam destruction
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Tuesday said it could not say conclusively what caused the destruction of a massive dam in Ukraine, but was assessing reports that the blast was caused by Russia, which has been occupying the dam since last year. Spokesman John Kirby said it was clear that the destruction of...
US calls Roger Waters performance in Berlin ‘deeply offensive to Jewish people’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Tuesday weighed in on a controversy over a performance by Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, denouncing the show in Berlin as “deeply offensive to Jewish people” and accusing Waters of having a record of using antisemitic tropes. Waters, 79, has said the performance last month, during which...
Cuba Gooding Jr settles civil sex abuse case moments before trial
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Cuba Gooding Jr. reached a settlement on Tuesday with a woman who sued him for $6 million on an accusation that he raped her a decade ago, with the agreement coming minutes before jury selection was set to being in Manhattan federal court. The eleventh-hour deal means the Oscar winning...
White House vows an improved effort against drug overdoses
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday pledged an improved effort to combat drug overdoses that claimed the lives of about 100,000 Americans last year, using a White House summit to tout a multifaceted approach to tackle synthetic and illicit drugs such as the powerful opioid fentanyl. “Today’s summit is...
Saudi-Iranian ties: A history of ups and downs
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran reopened its embassy in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Tuesday, Saudi media reported, months after the two regional rivals agreed to end years of antagonism under a Chinese-brokered deal. Protracted rivalry between the Middle East’s leading Shi’ite and Sunni Muslim-led powers has fuelled conflicts across the region including wars in Yemen...
Indonesian scientist works with poachers to restore coral reefs
By Abd Rahman Muchtar SPERMONDE ISLANDS, Indonesia (Reuters) – For nearly two decades, Indonesian marine scientist Syafyudin Yusuf has worked with former poachers to rehabilitate coral reefs destroyed by their use of dynamite for fishing. They have restored to health 11.5 hectares (roughly 30 acres) of corals around a group of 120 islands known as...
Prince Harry tells court: UK government and media at ‘rock bottom’
LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Harry gave evidence on Tuesday at the High Court in London in his lawsuit against the publisher of British tabloid the Daily Mirror, which he accuses of phone-hacking and other unlawful acts. Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, has previously admitted its...
Brazil to launch grants for poor families protecting Amazon rainforest
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s government will launch a social program to pay additional grants to poor families that work in forest protection, environment minister Marina Silva said on Monday, in a bid to boost protection of the Amazon rainforest. The program, called Bolsa Verde, would be initially implemented across Brazil’s Amazon, the world’s largest tropical...
NZ electoral review recommends widespread changes including lowering voting age
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s electoral system needs significant changes such as a lower voting age of 16 to ensure democracy is more accessible, according to a draft report release on Tuesday. The report is part of an independent review commissioned by the New Zealand government in 2021 to ensure parliamentary rules remain fit for...
Senegalese man warned of gun violence the day he was shot dead in riots
DAKAR (Reuters) -Elhaji Cisse was busy on Friday, the day he was killed, tweeting hundreds of times as riots erupted beyond the walls of his compound in a busy suburb of Senegal’s capital Dakar. In one post, the 26-year-old student warned his 1,700 followers about security forces firing live rounds at protesters. In another, he...
Canada on track for its worst-ever wildfire season
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada is on track for its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction as warm and dry conditions are forecast to persist through to the end of the summer after an unprecedented start to the fire season, officials said on Monday. Blazes are burning in nearly all Canadian provinces and territories, and federal government...
US senator presses for declassified report on Al Jazeera reporter’s killing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen called on Monday for declassifying a government report on the death of Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist who was shot and killed while covering an Israeli army raid last year. One of the most recognizable journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for two decades, Abu...
Peru to extradite suspect in Alabama teen murder case within days, Interpol says
LIMA (Reuters) -A convicted killer imprisoned in Peru will be extradited within days to the U.S., where he faces extortion and fraud charges related to the disappearance and murder of an Alabama teenager nearly two decades ago, Interpol’s local head said on Monday. The extradition is the latest twist in the mystery surrounding the fate...
Drought drives economic exodus from Iraq’s rivers and marshlands
BASRA/NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) – On a sun-scorched shoreline in Iraq’s southern marshlands, fishermen stood shovelling a grim catch: tiny fish gathered dead from the water, fit only for use as animal fodder. Locals once lived self-sufficient lives in the vast freshwater areas that make up the UNESCO-recognized Iraqi Marshlands, filling their nets with varieties of...
Microsoft to pay $20 million to settle charges it collected children’s information
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that the tech company illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent, the FTC said on Monday. The company had been charged with violating the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal information from children...
Egypt reopens historic mosque after long restoration
CAIRO (Reuters) – A 13th century mosque that fell into disrepair after being used over the years as a soap factory, a slaughterhouse and a fort reopened in Cairo on Monday after undergoing a long restoration. The mosque of Al-Zhahir Baybars, built under Mamluk rule in 1268, spans an area of three acres just north...
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Light plane that sparked scare lost contact soon after takeoff -NTSB
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Air traffic controllers lost contact shortly after takeoff with the pilot of a light plane that caused a security scare on Sunday when it flew over heavily restricted airspace near Washington, authorities said on Monday. Four people including the pilot of the Cessna Citation 560 were killed in the crash, the Federal Aviation...
Atmospheric CO2 now 50% higher than pre-industrial level -NOAA
(Reuters) – Carbon dioxide levels as measured atop a Hawaiian volcano extended their record-breaking rise in 2023, reaching a level more than 50% higher than at the onset of the industrial era, U.S. scientists reported on Monday. CO2 at the Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory reached 424 parts per million in May, up 3 ppm...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister hopeful for deal with IMF this month
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is hopeful of finalising a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this month, he said in an interview with Turkish news agency Anadolu. The release of pending bailout funds under the 9th IMF review are crucial for Pakistan to resolve an acute balance of payments...
UN climate talks in Germany kick off with no final agenda
BERLIN (Reuters) – United Nations climate talks in Germany kicked off on Monday without an agreed final agenda for technical discussions, a senior negotiator said, clouding optimism that the 10-day meeting would result in a clear programme for the COP28 conference in Dubai. The Bonn Climate Change Conference, designed to prepare decisions for adoption at...
Australia cuts crop production forecasts as risk of El Nino rises
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian winter crop production is set to fall from record highs, according to the country’s agricultural department, as forecasters predict drier weather after three years of record rainfall brought on by back-to-back La Nina weather patterns. Total Australian winter crop production is forecast to fall by 34% to 44.9 million tonnes in...
After rough start, UN plastic treaty talks end with mandate for first draft
(Reuters) – After a rocky start to a week of negotiations, around 170 countries agreed to develop a first draft by November of what could become the first global treaty to curb plastic pollution by the end of next year. Country delegations, NGOs and industry representatives gathered in Paris this week for the second round...
Adulterated cider kills 16 in Russia, dozens sick
(Reuters) -At least 16 people have died and dozens more have fallen ill after drinking adulterated cider in western Russia’s Ulyanovsk region, local officials said on Monday. Local governor Alexei Russkikh said the product – labelled “Mister Cider” – had been sold on tap after being brought into the region in 30 litre kegs. According...
India investigates rail disaster as trains crawl through crash site
KHARAGPUR, India (Reuters) – The official investigation into India’s deadliest rail crash in over two decades began on Monday after preliminary findings pointed to signal failure as the likely cause for a collision that killed at least 275 people and injured 1,200. The disaster struck on Friday, when a passenger train hit a stationary freight...
Pakistan’s embattled Imran Khan faces blackout on local media
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Coverage of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has disappeared from all mainstream news channels in the country after the media regulator asked networks to block out people involved in rioting last month, a Reuters survey showed on Monday. A directive, seen by Reuters, was put out by the regulator last week...
Global airlines more than double 2023 profit outlook
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Global airlines on Monday more than doubled their forecast for the industry’s 2023 profit but warned delays in getting planes to cope with rising demand could dampen their post-pandemic recovery. “The pandemic years are behind us and borders are open as normal,” Willie Walsh, head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA),...
