DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzania said today it had signed an agreement with a Turkish firm, Yapi Merkezi, to build a $900 million modern railway line as part of the country’s efforts to upgrade transportation links and boost trade with its neighbours.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely killed by unintentional gunfire from Israeli positions, but independent investigators could not reach a definitive conclusion about the origin of the bullet that struck her, the U.S.
YIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s forces have withdrawn from the bombed-out city of Lysychansk, prompting Russia to claim full control of the eastern Luhansk region, a key Kremlin war goal, but President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed to regain the lost territory.
ALMATY, (Reuters) – Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said yesterday there were casualties among civilians and law enforcement officers after rare protests in the Central Asian country, and an exiled opposition politician said at least five people had been killed.
COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Three people were killed and several more were wounded in a shooting at a shopping centre in Copenhagen yesterday, Danish police said, adding they had arrested a 22-year-old Danish man and charged him with manslaughter.
KYIV/KONSTYANTYNIVKA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia said today its forces and their allies had taken control of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, after capturing the final Ukrainian holdout of Lysychansk, although Ukraine has yet to comment after reporting heavy fighting there.
(Reuters) – Police killed Jayland Walker, a Black man in Ohio, by shooting him dozens of times as he ran from officers following a traffic stop, a lawyer for his family said, citing a review of police body-worn camera footage due to be made public on Sunday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s top security officer has asked Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to enforce laws barring picketing outside the Maryland homes of high court justices, saying protests and “threatening activity” have increased.
KABUL, (Reuters) – A Taliban-run gathering of thousands of male religious and ethnic leaders ended yesterday by asking foreign governments to formally recognise their administration, but made no signals of changes on international demands such as the opening of girls’ high schools.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah said yesterday it had sent three unarmed drones towards an Israeli Mediterranean gas rig, which the Israeli military said it had intercepted.
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya, (Reuters) – Fury at Libya’s feuding leaders boiled over yesterday as protesters stormed the parliament building in the eastern city of Tobruk and staged the biggest demonstration for years in the capital Tripoli, in the west.
ACCRA, (Reuters) – Ghana, one of West Africa’s largest economies, will hold formal talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a support package, the government said yesterday, after hundreds took to the streets to protest against mounting hardship.
BANJUL, (Reuters) – Gambia has banned timber exports and permanently revoked all timber export licenses in an effort to combat illegal logging, the government said in a statement on yesterday.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s grain exports plunged 43% year-on-year to 1.41 million tonnes in June, the agriculture ministry said yesterday, highlighting the damage being inflicted on a key sector of the economy by Russia’s invasion.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is sending Ukraine two NASAMS surface-to-air missile systems, four additional counter-artillery radars and up to 150,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition as part of its latest weapons packages for Ukraine, the Pentagon said yesterday.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – General Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Calleja, one of Cuba’s most powerful men, died yesterday of a heart attack, state media reported, leaving a critical hole in the political and economic leadership of the communist-run island.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Dutch central bank (DNB) today apologized for its role in the 19th century slave trade and said it would fund projects to raise awareness of slavery and to mitigate the effects it still has on people.