NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Without providing any proof, the secretary-general of Kenya’s governing party has said there was election rigging, fuelling public anxiety yesterday as media outlets significantly slowed down their unofficial tallies from Tuesday’s tight vote.
(Reuters) – Author Salman Rushdie will likely lose an eye and suffered severed nerves in an arm and damage to his liver after he was stabbed today, his agent said, adding that Rushdie was on a ventilator.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velazquez today said he would resign and withdraw his candidacy for the presidency, after being blacklisted by the United States for alleged “significant” acts of corruption.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain officially declared a drought in parts of England today as households faced new curbs on water usage during a prolonged period of hot and dry weather that has kindled wildfires and tested infrastructure.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. federal agents were looking for documents relating to nuclear weapons when they raided former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida this week, the Washington Post reported yesterday.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Satellite pictures released yesterday showed devastation at a Russian air base in Crimea, hit in an attack that suggested Kyiv may have obtained new long-range strike capability with potential to change the course of the war.
(Reuters) – An armed man who tried to breach the FBI building in Cincinnati, Ohio, yesterday was shot dead by police following a car chase, a gun battle and a standoff in a cornfield northeast of town, officials said.
TORONTO, (Reuters) – Power was restored in downtown Toronto yesterday after an outage left the offices of Canada’s top businesses in the dark, forced the evacuation of one of the city’s biggest shopping malls and trapped people in elevators.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Two days after Kenya’s general election, officials had yet to announce who is leading the presidential race in East Africa’s regional powerhouse, as confused citizens struggled to make sense of divergent tallies from the media in a nail-bitingly close race.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Satellite pictures released today showed devastation at a Russian air base in Crimea, hit in an attack that suggested Kyiv may have obtained new long-range strike capability with potential to change the course of the war.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he declined to answer questions during an appearance before New York state’s attorney general in a civil investigation into his family’s business practices, citing his constitutional right against self-incrimination.
FREETOWN, (Reuters) – At least two police officers and one civilian died after a day of anti-government protests in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, staff at the city’s main mortuary said yesterday.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Heavy fighting raged around the eastern Ukrainian town of Pisky yesterday as Russia pressed its campaign to seize all of the industrialised Donbas region, while to the west Kyiv accused Moscow of using a nuclear plant to shield its artillery.
TUNIS, (Reuters) – A Tunisian court has halted President Kais Saied’s dismissal of around 50 judges, a lawyer said yesterday, underscoring the continued independence of courts despite Saied’s moves to assume wider authority over the judiciary.
(Reuters) – A senior Ukrainian official suggested a series of explosions at a Russian air base in Crimea could have been the work of partisan saboteurs, as Kyiv denied any responsibility for the incident deep inside Russian-occupied territory.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., (Reuters) – A Muslim immigrant from Afghanistan has been arrested as the prime suspect in the serial killings of four Muslim men that rattled the Islamic community of New Mexico’s largest city, police said yesterday.
(Reuters) – The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said yesterday there were “early signs” that the monkeypox outbreak is plateauing across the country and that its expansion has slowed.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican Congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said yesterday that FBI agents had seized his cell phone, in yet another sign that the Justice Department’s investigation into the 2021 attack on the U.S.