Once-lost Caravaggio painting to go on display in Spain's El Prado
MADRID (Reuters) - Madrid's Prado Museum unveiled a painting by Italian baroque master Caravaggio on Monday that will go on public display for the first time this week after what the museum has described as one of the greatest discoveries in the hi...
May 27, 2024
India weather office retains above average monsoon rains forecast
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is likely to receive above average monsoon rains this year, the weather office said on Monday, retaining its April forecast. Above average rains will help India, which depends heavily on the summer rains for its f...
May 27, 2024
Exclusive-Operations to destroy illegal roads in Colombia's Amazon hit standstill, sources say
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) - Government measures to destroy illegal roads in and around Colombia's Amazon rainforest are stalled, eight sources told Reuters, with one operation suspended altogether over concerns it could set back peace talk...
May 27, 2024
Kentucky warns of more severe weather after US storms kill 14
(Reuters) - Kentucky governor Andy Beshear declared a state emergency early on Monday after tornado-spawning thunderstorms swept the U.S. Southern Plains and Ozarks, killing at least 14 people and wrecking hundreds of buildings as forecasters warne...
May 27, 2024
Texas daily power demand sets record for May consumption
(Reuters) - Daily power consumption in Texas set a record for the month of May on Sunday, the state grid operator said, for the fourth time this month, as homes and businesses fire up air conditioners to escape a heat wave. The Electric Reliability...
May 27, 2024
Millions without power as cyclone Remal pounds Bangladesh and India
By Ruma Paul and Subrata Nag Choudhury DHAKA/KOLKATA (Reuters) - Strong winds and heavy rain pounded the coastal regions of Bangladesh and India as severe cyclone Remal made landfall late on Sunday, leaving millions without electricity after power ...
May 27, 2024
Tornadoes hit Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, killing at least 2 in Texas, NYT reports
(Reuters) - A tornado in northern Texas has killed at least two people and left multiple injured, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing Ray Sappington, the sheriff of Cooke County. Towns in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas were hit by tornadoes...
May 26, 2024
India and Bangladesh brace for year's first cyclone
By Ruma Paul and Subrata Nag Choudhury DHAKA/KOLKATA (Reuters) - Bangladesh and India braced for the first cyclone of the year as a storm with wind speeds of up to 120 kmh (75 mph) is set to make landfall late on Sunday, India's weather department ...
May 26, 2024
Trump booed and heckled by raucous crowd at Libertarian convention
(Please note language in paragraph 18 that readers may find offensive) By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Donald Trump was booed and heckled by many in a raucous audience at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday nig...
May 26, 2024
More than 4,000 likely impacted by Papua New Guinea landslide, aid group says
SYDNEY (Reuters) - More than 4,000 people were likely impacted by a massive landslide that flattened a village in northern Papua New Guinea on Friday, humanitarian group CARE Australia said. Hundreds are feared dead in the landslide in the Pacific ...
May 26, 2024
Earthquake of magnitude 6.4 strikes Vanuatu Islands - EMSC
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck the Vanuatu Islands on Sunday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The quake was at a depth of 25 km (15.53 miles),EMSC said. (Reporting by Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru; Editing by Jos...
May 25, 2024
Exotic dancer drama 'Anora' wins Cannes Film Festival's top prize
CANNES, France (Reuters) - "Anora," a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved with a Russian oligarch's son, won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, on Saturday. The film by U.S. director S...
May 25, 2024
US screens highest number of air passengers ever in a single day
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it screened 2.95 million airline passengers on Friday, the highest number ever on a single day. The record travel comes with the Memorial Day weekend that marks the b...
May 25, 2024
At Cannes, Iranian director Rasoulof recalls difficult exile decision
By Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) - Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof recalled how he had to decide within hours whether to go into exile or serve a prison sentence, saying it was still difficult to talk about it during a press conference...
May 25, 2024
Four years after George Floyd killing, police reform slow to follow
By Bianca Flowers and Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) - Stevante Clark felt a glimmer of hope when racial justice protests swept the globe in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd. His own brother, Stephon Clark, was killed by Sacramento police i...
May 25, 2024
Biden set to deliver commencement at West Point on Saturday
By Jarrett Renshaw WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - U.S. President Biden will deliver the commencement speech on Saturday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, amid conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. The speech before some 1,000 U.S. Ar...
May 25, 2024
As Cannes Film Festival nears end, who will win the top prize?
By Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) - A Donald Trump biopic, a musical about a Mexican cartel boss and Francis Ford Coppola's long-time passion project are just some of the films competing for the Cannes Film Festival's top prize as the glam...
May 25, 2024
More than 300 buried in Papua New Guinea landslide, local media says
SYDNEY (Reuters) - More than 300 people and over 1,100 houses were buried by a massive landslide that levelled a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea, local media reported on Saturday. Hundreds are feared dead in the landslide that hit Kaoka...
May 25, 2024
Judge denies Alec Baldwin request to drop indictment for 'Rust' shooting
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - A New Mexico judge on Friday rejected Alec Baldwin's bid to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge for the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, opening the way for an unprecedented trial of a Hollywood act...
May 24, 2024
Israeli private eye accused of hacking was questioned about DC public affairs firm, sources say
By Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON - An Israeli private investigator sought by the United States over hack-for-hire allegations previously told colleagues that he had been questioned by FBI agents over his work for the Washington pub...
May 24, 2024
Louisiana governor signs bill classifying abortion pills as controlled substances
(Reuters) - Louisiana's governor on Friday signed a bill making his state the first in the U.S. to classify two abortion-inducing medications as controlled substances, a category that healthcare regulators typically reserve for drugs that may be ab...
May 24, 2024
Groups fight California attorney general's document demands in plastics pollution probe
By Clark Mindock (Reuters) - Two chemical and plastics industry groups each filed a lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Friday, seeking to block his attempt to force them to hand over documents as part of an ongoing probe into ...
May 24, 2024
Blackstone CEO Schwarzman to back Trump, Axios reports
(Reuters) -Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman will support Donald Trump as the former U.S. president seeks to return to the White House, Axios reported on Friday. Schwarzman, one of the biggest political donors on Wall Street, plans to donate to Trump a...
May 24, 2024
UCLA police make first arrest in mob attack on pro-Palestinian encampment
By Steve Gorman and Andrew Hay LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three weeks after a mob attacked pro-Palestinian activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles, police have made their first arrest in the violence, a man they say was seen in...
May 24, 2024
US FDA panel votes against use of Novo Nordisk's weekly insulin in type 1 diabetes patients
(Reuters) - A panel of independent experts to the U.S. health regulator on Friday voted against the use of Novo Nordisk's weekly insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes due to risks of low blood sugar. The Food and Drug Administration's panel vote...
May 24, 2024