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Police arrive outside the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church and are greeted by a clergyman after a knife attack took place during a service on Monday night, in Wakeley, Sydney, Australia, April 17, 2024.

Stabbed Sydney Assyrian bishop says recovering quickly, forgives attacker

Reuters |Updated 55 minutes ago |2 min read

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Assyrian bishop who was stabbed during a service at his Sydney church said on Thursday he was recovering quickly and that he had forgiven his attacker. Two knife attacks within three days - at a busy shopping centre near ...

The downtown Ottawa headquarters of the Department of National Defence on Colonel By Drive.

Royal Canadian Navy leadership covered up for serial sexual offender, Commons committee hears

David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen · Reporter · Postmedia News |Updated 1 hour ago |5 min read Premium content

Royal Canadian Navy leaders have covered up the actions of a serial sexual offender known as Officer X, the House of Commons defence committee heard Wednesday. Patrick White, a lieutenant of the Royal Canadian Navy, testified about the ongoing ...

Britain's Prince William visits a housing workshop to discuss solutions to support local families at risk of homelessness, in Sheffield, Britain March 19, 2024.

Prince William returns to public duties after wife Kate's cancer revelation

Reuters |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William will return to public duties on Thursday for the first time since his wife Kate revealed she was undergoing preventative chemotherapy for cancer. In a video message last month, Kate, 42, the Princess of ...

A Palestinian child waits to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 5, 2024.

UNRWA chief warns man-made famine tightening grip across Gaza

Michelle Nichols |Updated 2 hours ago |3 min read

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A man-made famine is "tightening its grip" across the Gaza Strip, the head of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA warned on Wednesday as he accused Israel of blocking aid deliveries ...

European Union flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 1, 2023.REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo

EU to widen Iran sanctions, including drones, missiles -statement

Reuters |Updated 3 hours ago |1 min read

PARIS (Reuters) - The EU will take further sanctions against Iran following the country's recent attack on Israel, in particular with regard to the production of drones and missiles, the council of national government leaders said in a statement ...

U.S. President Joe Biden, aboard Marine One, inspects the fire-ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, U.S., August 21, 2023.

Hawaii releases detailed timeline of deadly wildfire that razed Lahaina

Jonathan Allen |Updated 3 hours ago |2 min read

By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - A fire engine arrived within five minutes of the first reports of a wildfire last August on the edge of Lahaina, the historic Hawaiian resort town, according to the most detailed timeline yet of the disaster, ...

Medical students walk in a hallway of the University of Buenos Aires Medical School in the dark, as the university has to restrict the use of electricity due to budget cuts, in the run-up to a national strike on April 23 against Argentina's President Javier Milei's policy of cuts in public education, in Buenos Aires, Argentina April 17, 2024.

'We will teach by candlelight': Argentine students and teachers protest Milei budget cuts

Lucila Sigal |Updated 4 hours ago |2 min read

By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's public universities held protests on Wednesday against sharp budget cuts by the government of President Javier Milei, turning off the lights in classrooms to draw attention to their predicament ...

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi speaks during a press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Stephane Sejourne, following a meeting discussing the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Tahrir Palace, in Cairo, Egypt March 30, 2024.

Jordan says Israeli retaliation for Iran strikes risks wider regional war

Suleiman Al-Khalidi |Updated 4 hours ago |2 min read

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Wednesday an Israeli retaliation against Iranian strikes could bring a real risk of dragging the whole region into a devastating war. In an interview released ...

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign stop at Sanaa convenient store, in the Harlem section of New York City, U.S., April 16, 2024.

Trump hush money prosecutors seek to ask about fraud, E. Jean Carroll

Luc Cohen |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Prosecutors on Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial want to ask the former U.S. president about civil cases in which he was found liable for sexual abuse and fraud if he chooses to testify, according to a document ...

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Tunisia jails journalist Mohamed Boughalleb for six months

Reuters |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

TUNIS (Reuters) -A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced prominent journalist Mohamed Boughalleb, a fierce critic of President Kais Saied, to six months in prison on charges of insulting a public official, his lawyer told Reuters. "It is a black day ...

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