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1st April
Arrests made in deadly fire at Mexico detention center
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Five people have been arrested for alleged roles in the deaths of 39 people at a Mexican migrant detention center this week after a fire broke out, authorities said Thursday. Six...
Inquiry into Canada’s worst mass shooting criticises police, urges reform
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Officials tasked with reviewing Canada’s worst mass shooting called for sweeping police reforms, stricter gun safety regulations and better public communication on Thursday after an investigation found many shortcomings in authorities’ response to the 2020 incident. In April 2020, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, disguised in a police uniform and driving a fake police...
Prince Harry back in UK court for battle with Daily Mail publisher
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Prince Harry returned to the High Court in London on Thursday where his lawyer fought an attempt by a newspaper publisher to throw out his and other high-profile figures’ lawsuit that alleged widespread unlawful acts by journalists. Harry, the singer Elton John and five other high-profile people are suing publisher Associated Newspapers,...
Australia’s biggest pension funds cut China exposure, buy fossil fuels
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Two of Australia’s largest pension funds pulled money out of Chinese stocks and boosted positions in the country’s fossil fuel sector in the final six months of 2022, according to filings published on Thursday. The value of China and Hong Kong listed equities at AustralianSuper and Aware Super, which collectively manage about A$400...
King Charles lauds unity on Ukraine war in bilingual Bundestag speech
BERLIN (Reuters) -King Charles hailed the historic ties between Britain and Germany while lauding their current unity in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in an address to the Bundestag on Thursday on his first state trip overseas as monarch. The king, on the second day of a three-day trip to Germany, alternated between...
Jury sides with Gwyneth Paltrow in Utah ski crash trial
(Reuters) -A jury in Utah ruled on Thursday that Oscar-winning actor Gwyneth Paltrow was not responsible for injuries sustained by a man during a ski slope collision at an upscale Park City resort in 2016. Terry Sanderson, a retired optometrist, suffered a concussion and four broken ribs in the incident. He said the injuries led...
Britain agrees to join trans-Pacific trade pact
LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) – Britain on Friday said it had struck a deal to join an 11-country trans-Pacific trade pact which includes Japan and Australia as it looks to deepen ties in the region and build its global trade links after leaving the European Union. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Britain had agreed to join the...
Russia arrests US reporter on spy charges, White House says allegations ‘ridiculous’
KYIV (Reuters) – Russia on Thursday charged an American correspondent for the Wall Street Journal with spying, in a case certain to worsen Moscow’s diplomatic feud with Washington over the war in Ukraine and likely to further isolate Russia. The newspaper denied the allegations and demanded the immediate release of “trusted and dedicated reporter” Evan...
Florida aquarium to release orca after more than 50 years in captivity
(Reuters) – A Florida aquarium has reached a deal with animal welfare advocates to release Lolita, a 5,000-pound (2,268 kg) killer whale held in captivity for more than half a century, officials said on Thursday. The Miami Seaquarium said it had reached a “binding agreement” with nonprofit Friends of Lolita to return the whale, who...
31st March
Nine killed in crash of two US Army helicopters in Kentucky
(Reuters) -Nine soldiers were killed in a crash of two medical evacuation Black Hawk helicopters during a routine nighttime training mission over Kentucky, the U.S. Army said on Thursday, in one of the military’s deadliest training accidents in recent years. Crew members using night-vision goggles were flying two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, operated by the...
‘Loss and damage’ climate fund should be in place this year -Egyptian negotiator
CAIRO (Reuters) – A fund to deliver financing to places affected by climate-fuelled disasters should be created by the annual U.N. climate summit that opens at the end of November, the lead host negotiator at last year’s summit said on Thursday. Agreement to establish a “loss and damage” fund was secured at COP27 in Egypt...
COVID-19 vaccination for health workers no longer mandatory, but favoured, France’s health body says
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s public health authority Haute Autorite de Sante (HAS)on Thursday eased its vaccination guidance for professionals in the health sector, saying the shot was no longer mandatory, but still strongly recommended, in light of recent epidemiological data. “This recommendation to lift the obligation to vaccinate against Covid-19 does not in any way...
Death toll from Ecuador landslide deaths rises to 17, over 70 remain missing
QUITO (Reuters) – At least 17 people have died from a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Ecuador’s Andean region, sweeping down over parts of the city of Alausi, authorities said on Thursday, as the death toll increased and 72 people remained missing. The landslide struck Sunday night, and on Tuesday, the official death toll...
Last students graduate: School closures spread in ageing Japan
TEN-EI, Japan (Reuters) – – As Eita Sato and Aoi Hoshi walked towards their junior high school graduation ceremony, their footsteps echoed in polished halls once crowded and noisy with students. The two were the only graduates of Yumoto Junior High in a mountainous part of northern Japan – and the last. The 76-year-old school...
U.N. weather agency retires Fiona, Ian as hurricane names after 2022 devastation
(Reuters) – Fiona and Ian have been retired as hurricane names by the World Meteorological Organization after devastating storms with those names killed dozens of people and inflicted billions of dollars in damage in 2022. Hurricanes have been named in alphabetical order since 1953 in a move meant simplify warnings and media coverage. The names...
White House: Russian spying charges against U.S. reporter “ridiculous”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House dismissed espionage charges against a Wall Street Journal reporter detained by Russia as ridiculous and said there was no reason to believe the charges are accurate. “These espionage charges are ridiculous. The targeting of American citizens by the Russian government is unacceptable,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said...
‘Scott Pilgrim’ cast members will reunite in Netflix anime series
By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Brie Larson, Michael Cera and other cast members from the 2010 film “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” will return for an upcoming Netflix anime series based on the popular graphic novels about a slacker pursuing love. Netflix posted a cast announcement video on YouTube and other social media...
World Court rules US illegally froze some Iranian assets
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – In a partial victory for Iran, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICE) on Thursday ruled Washington had illegally allowed courts to freeze assets of some Iranian companies and ordered the United States to pay compensation, the amount of which will be determined later. However,...
‘He’s a strong man’: In pope’s homeland Argentina, prayers for his health but little worry
By Horacio Soria and Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – In Pope Francis’ homeland of Argentina his hospitalization with a respiratory infection has led to an outpouring of prayer for the 86-year-old leader of the Catholic Church, though most remained confident he would soon fully recover. The Vatican on Thursday said Pope Francis’ health...
For T. rex and kin, it was a stiff upper lip, not a toothy grin
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – They probably did not smile, frown or snarl, but T. rex and its relatives almost certainly had the dinosaur equivalent of lips – a new finding by scientists that challenges popular depictions of these predators as having big nasty teeth sticking out of their mouths. Researchers said on Thursday...
Israelis backing Netanyahu block highway in counter-protest
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Thousands of Israelis came out in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan on Thursday, blocking a highway in Tel Aviv after months of anti-government protests convulsed the country. “The nation demands legal reform!” chanted some of the demonstrators, carrying Israeli blue-and-white national flags. Police said they were responding...
Over 1,000 migrants, angered by asylum policies, rush to U.S.-Mexico border
By Lizbeth Diaz CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – More than a thousand migrants in northern Mexico surrendered to U.S. border authorities, frustrated by recent asylum policies, and shaken by a fire at a nearby migrant detention center that killed dozens this week. A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesperson said the agency was processing over...
Wildfires ravage Spain’s Asturias as temperatures hit record highs
MADRID (Reuters) – More than 100 wildfires broke out in Spain’s northern Asturias region on Thursday, most of them started on purpose by arsonists and others, authorities said, as temperatures soared to record highs. The blazes came on top of another wildfire still burning eight days after it started in woodlands in the eastern Valencia...
Equatorial Guinea confirms 13 Marburg cases after WHO comments
GENEVA (Reuters) – Equatorial Guinea has confirmed 13 cases of Marburg disease since the beginning of the epidemic, its health officials said on Wednesday after the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged the Central African country’s government to report new cases officially. Marburg virus disease is a viral haemorrhagic fever that can have...
Memorial for Nashville shooting victims: ‘Our hearts are broken’
NASHVILLE (Reuters) -First lady Jill Biden joined a memorial vigil in Nashville on Wednesday for the three children and three adults shot to death this week at a Christian day school, including two educators who were close friends of the Tennessee governor’s wife. The outdoor ceremony, attended by several hundred people, began about an hour...
Migrants were locked behind bars during deadly Mexico fire, witnesses say
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Migrants were locked in a cell as a blaze spread killing 39 people at a detention center in Mexico, witnesses and a survivor said on Wednesday, as Mexico’s president vowed to bring to justice those responsible. An investigation is underway to determine what happened Monday at the center in the...
Fire on passenger ferry in Philippines kills 10 -coast guard
MANILA (Reuters) – Ten people have died and 230 have been rescued after a passenger ferry caught fire on Wednesday evening in the seas off the southern Philippine province of Basilan, a coast guard official said. Nine people were injured in the fire that started in air-conditioned cabins, Commodore Rejard Marfe, coast guard chief in...
Elderly Swiss women bring European court’s first climate case
STRASBOURG (Reuters) -Thousands of elderly Swiss women have joined forces in a groundbreaking case heard on Wednesday at the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that their government’s “woefully inadequate” efforts to fight global warming violate their human rights. The first climate change case at the Strasbourg court has been brought by a group of...
WHO to consider adding obesity drugs to ‘essential’ medicines list
LONDON (Reuters) – Drugs that combat obesity are under consideration for the first time for the World Health Organization’s “essential medicines list,” used to guide government purchasing decisions in low- and middle-income countries, the U.N. agency told Reuters. A panel of advisers to the WHO will review new requests for drugs to be included next...
EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union countries gave final approval on Tuesday to a landmark law to end sales of new CO2-emitting cars in 2035, after Germany won an exemption for cars running on e-fuels. The approval from EU countries’ energy ministers means Europe’s main climate policy for cars can now enter into force – after...
