Regional leaders called for calm Saturday as fears of a new escalation between the U.S., Israel and Iran grow. Speaking at a security forum in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs said the message from the region is that it wants a return to peace. Also at the forum, Syria’s foreign minister said…
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s most renowned independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, on Friday announced its closure after more than three decades of operation, blaming relentless official pressure. “They have killed us,” it said in an editorial statement, announcing that it will shut its office on Nov. 9 after publishing its final issue. “The Russian authorities and…
MOSCOW, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta said on Friday that it was shutting down after what it described as a relentless campaign by the authorities which saw state prosecutors pursue some of its senior journalists and left it without financial support and an office. The newspaper, which has often been highly critical…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first body was recovered on Friday from the rubble of a multistory building that collapsed a week ago in Kenya’s capital, with 16 people still missing. Authorities had deployed thermal imaging technology to help search through the debris. The body of a woman was found badly mutilated after being crushed…
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Humanitarian aid is poised to roll into the stricken city of Oleshky on Friday, a Ukrainian official said, as a localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine stretched into a third day and military units cleared away landmines. Moscow and Kyiv have observed the truce in and around the devastated southern Ukrainian…
MOSCOW, Oct 28 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin told African leaders on Wednesday that Russia was their best partner, accusing what he cast as a colonial West of still trying to exploit the continent’s resources and using debt to hold back development. Putin was speaking at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, a two-day event…
A meeting of high-level security officials from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey was a step toward dialogue and peace, Iran’s top diplomat said, while stressing that regional security should be handled by the countries themselves rather than outside intervention. Separately, Egypt’s foreign minister held talks with his counterparts from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab…
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — A six-day ceasefire in a Russian-occupied city in southern Ukraine held for its first day and night, officials said Wednesday, but Moscow and Kyiv continued to batter each other elsewhere. The localized truce in the devastated southern city of Oleshky began Tuesday and is due to last through Sunday as a…
By Fedja Grulovic , Alex Fraser , Bart Biesemans and Fatos Bytyci BELGRADE/MILAN/BRUSSELS/TIRANA, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Maya Gourdel, a 19-year-old student in Brussels, sits at a desk writing slogans against those running her country: “If we burn, you burn with us!” The slogan, taken from the 2012 film “The Hunger Games” that has been…
Prakhar Jain, head of the state’s disaster management authority, said the cyclone had weakened slightly before landfall but still packed peak winds of up to 185 kph (115 mph) and brought heavy to very heavy rainfall to several coastal districts, triggering widespread disruption in affected areas. Officials said the cyclone was expected to weaken further…