World

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Senegal’s once jailed opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye was sworn in yesterday as the West African nation’s fifth and youngest president ever, promising to restore stability and bring economic progress.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – The Kremlin said yesterday that a visit by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to Russia was being prepared, a sign of continued close ties between the two major oil-producing nations which are both at odds with the United States.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan yesterday, the strongest tremor to hit the island in at least 25 years, killing one person, injuring dozens and sparking a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was later lifted.

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump called immigrants illegally in the United States “animals” and “not human” in a speech in Michigan yesterday, resorting to the degrading rhetoric he has employed time and again on the campaign trail.

ALMATY,  (Reuters) – The operator of Kazakhstan’s giant offshore Kashagan oilfield denied reports of an oil spill near the field and said yesterday its facilities were working normally.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Shell SHEL.L today told a Dutch court a 2021 order that it should drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions lacks a legal basis and risks obstructing the fight against climate change.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s top court today warned the nation’s most popular yoga guru and his company of stern legal action for not complying with its directive to stop advertisements saying traditional ayurvedic medicines can fully cure some diseases.

DAMASCUS,  (Reuters) – Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria yesterday in a strike that Iran said killed seven of its military advisers, including three senior commanders, and that marked a major escalation in Israel’s war with its regional adversaries.

(Reuters) – At least five employees of the World Central Kitchen (WCK) non-governmental organisation, including foreigners, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said late yesterday.

SAO PAULO/MARACAY, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela is battling a record number of wildfires, according to data released today, as a climate change-driven drought plagues the Amazon rainforest region.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – An Indian court renewed detention today for key opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal until April 15 in a graft case, his lawyers said, less than three weeks before voting begins in general elections.

(Reuters) – Russia is demanding that Ukraine hand over all people connected with terrorist acts committed in Russia, including the head of the country’s SBU Security Service, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With efforts underway to clean up thousands of tons of steel debris from the collapsed bridge in Baltimore’s harbor, Maryland Governor Wes Moore on Sunday urged Republicans to work with Democrats to approve the federal funding needed for rebuilding the bridge and to get the port economy back on its feet.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli strikes killed 77 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours, health authorities said on Sunday, as Egypt hosted an Israeli delegation for a new round of talks in a bid to secure a truce with Gaza’s Hamas rulers.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Jerusalem on Sunday against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and against exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from military service, in scenes reminiscent of mass street protests last year.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Turks punished President Tayyip Erdogan and his party today in nationwide local elections that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as the president’s chief future rival.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Truce talks between Israel and Hamas will resume today in Cairo, the latest attempt to bring about a pause after nearly six months of war in the Gaza Strip, Egypt’s Al Qahera News TV reported on Saturday, citing a security source.

SHENZHEN, China,  (Reuters) – China’s manufacturing activity expanded for the first time in six months in March, an official factory survey showed today, offering relief to policymakers even as a crisis in the property sector remains a drag on the economy and confidence.

LARNACA, Cyprus,  (Reuters) – Ships carrying 332 tons of food for Gaza left Cyprus’s Larnaca port yesterday in a convoy which will reach the besieged enclave early next week, authorities said.

(Reuters) – Salvage crews worked to lift the first piece of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the water yesterday to allow barges and tugboats to access the disaster site, Maryland and U.S.