Saudi crown prince meets White House national security adviser
CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan in the Saudi city of Dhahran, the Saudi state news agency reported on Sunday. (Reporting by Muhammad Al Gebaly; Editing by Willia...
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Northern Ireland minister Heaton-Harris will not stand for re-election as MP
(Reuters) - Britain's minister for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris, will not stand for re-election to parliament, he said in a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday. Heaton-Harris asked Sunak to let him remain secretary of state fo...
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Irish business tycoon and rugby record breaker Tony O'Reilly dies at 88
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Tony O'Reilly, the Irish media tycoon and former H.J. Heinz Co boss who first rose to prominence as a record breaking British and Irish Lions rugby player, died on Saturday at the age of 88. For decades one of I...
May 18, 2024
Tunisia recovers bodies of four migrants off its coast, rescues dozens
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia recovered the bodies of four migrants off the country's coast on Saturday, the national guard said, amid an increase in migrant boats heading from Tunisia toward Italy in recent weeks. The force said the coast guard separa...
May 18, 2024
Iran to send experts to ally Venezuela to help with medical accelerators
CARACAS (Reuters) - Iran on Saturday said it will send experts to its ally Venezuela to help with medical accelerators in hospitals it said had been stopped due to Western sanctions. Venezuela requested Iran's help, according to a message on the so...
May 18, 2024
Despite polls, Biden aides insist Gaza campus protests will not hurt reelection bid
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel's offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November's elect...
May 18, 2024
South Africa's new MK party seeks majority win in pivotal election, Zuma says
By Anait Miridzhanian and Sfundo Parakozov JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's new uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party is aiming to win a parliamentary majority in a May 29 election so that it can implement reforms without resistance from opponents, ...
May 18, 2024
Britain's Conservatives trail Labour by 18 points, says Opinium poll
LONDON (Reuters) - The opposition Labour Party's lead over British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's governing Conservative Party has increased to 18 points, according to an opinion poll published on Saturday. A national election is expected later this ...
May 18, 2024
Venezuela opposition candidate says he will guarantee political freedom
By Vivian Sequera LA VICTORIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said on Saturday he will ensure all political parties are free to operate if he unseats President Nicolas Maduro in a July vote, and he urged the ...
May 18, 2024
Italian police seize 134 Fiat cars in flag dispute
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian fiscal police seized more than 130 Fiat cars imported from Morocco this week on the grounds that a sticker with the colours of the Italian flag on their doors could give a false indication of their origin, a spokesman for ...
May 18, 2024
Ukraine investigates civilian injuries, battles rage in Kharkiv region
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian prosecutors said they were investigating attacks on civilians in two cities in the northeastern region of Kharkiv and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reported successes by troops fighting a fresh Russian assault there on Sa...
May 18, 2024
Israel's Gantz demand Gaza day-after plan by June 8, threatens to quit Netanyahu cabinet
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz demanded on Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commit to an agreed vision for the Gaza conflict that would include stipulating who might rule the territory after the war wi...
May 18, 2024
Israeli military says it recovered another slain hostage from Gaza
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Saturday that its forces operating in the Gaza Strip recovered the body of Ron Binyamin, who was among 252 people seized by Hamas-led Palestinian gunmen in a cross-border Oct. 7 rampage that trigge...
May 18, 2024
One killed, six injured in clashes in western Libyan city, TV channel says
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and six injured when fierce clashes broke out on Saturday in the city of Zawiya in western Libya, prompting calls for a ceasefire to rescue families trapped in the conflict area, a Libyan TV channe...
May 18, 2024
Georgian president vetoes 'foreign agents' bill, TASS reports
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has announced that she has vetoed a draft law on foreign agents, Russia's state-run TASS news agency reported on Saturday. Zourabichvili had said previously that she would veto the bill, w...
May 18, 2024
Dozens killed and wounded as Israeli forces thrust deeper in Gaza's Jabalia and Rafah
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested northern Gaza Strip district that they had previously skirted in the more than seven-month-old war, killing and wounding dozens of Palestin...
May 18, 2024
Rescuers search for 11 fishermen missing at sea in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Search and rescue efforts were underway in South Africa on Saturday to find 11 fishermen missing at sea after their vessel sunk off the coast of Cape Town, the fisheries department said. Nine fishermen who had managed to de...
May 18, 2024
Tunisian rights groups say freedoms threatened under Saied's rule
TUNIS (Reuters) - Freedoms in Tunisia are being threatened under the rule of President Kais Saied and the authorities are using the judiciary and police to punish their opponents, 10 local rights groups said at a joint conference on Saturday. Polic...
May 18, 2024
Poland to spend around $2.5 billion on securing eastern border, says PM
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will invest 10 billion zlotys ($2.55 billion) in a programme to secure its eastern border, the prime minister said on Saturday, in a bid to bolster its defences against what it says is a rising threat from Russia and Belar...
May 18, 2024
Romania searching for three missing crew after ship sinks in Black Sea
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian rescue teams were searching on Saturday for three missing crew members of a cargo ship that sank off the Black Sea coast, the naval authority said. Officials said they were notified very early on Saturday that the Tan...
May 18, 2024
Parents of German-Israeli woman whose body found in Gaza thankful to have a grave
By Rami Amichay and Michal Yaakov Itzhaki SRIGIM, Israel (Reuters) - German-Israeli Shani Louk's father says that finally laying his daughter to rest will be a gift after her body was recovered from Gaza, months after she was killed in Hamas' Oct. ...
May 18, 2024
Tunisia says 23 migrants missing after setting off in boat to Italy
TUNIS (Reuters) - About 23 migrants were missing after setting off in a boat from Tunisia towards Italy, the country's national guard said on Saturday. Tunisia is facing a migration crisis and has replaced Libya as a main departure point for people...
May 18, 2024
Pope says tension and debate are inevitable, embrace them
VERONA, Italy (Reuters) - Arguments and tensions are inevitable in modern society and should not be brushed under the carpet, Pope Francis said on Saturday, warning that trying to impose a uniform vision fostered frustration and violence. Addressin...
May 18, 2024
Vietnam nominates top police official To Lam as state president
HANOI (Reuters) - The Communist Party of Vietnam has nominated police minister To Lam to be state president, the government said on Saturday. The party has also nominated Tran Thanh Man, vice chairman of the National Assembly, as the assembly chair...
May 18, 2024
Slovak PM Fico stable but in serious condition
BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (Reuters) - The condition of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has stabilised but remains serious, the country's health minister said on Saturday, following Wednesday's assassination attempt against the central European le...
May 18, 2024