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By Christine Chen and Cordelia Hsu SYDNEY, April 3 (Reuters) – Every Easter, Sydney retiree Elsa Ulcak is one of the millions of Australians that hit the road to travel during the four-day-long weekend. But this year, she has cancelled her trip with her husband because she could not justify how much petrol her getaway …
MOSCOW, April 3 (Reuters) – Seven people were injured when a passenger train carrying 412 people derailed in Russia’s Ulyanovsk region some 900 kilometres (559 miles) from Moscow, Russian officials said on Friday. It was not immediately clear why the train derailed. (Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Anastasia Teterevleva; editing by Guy Faulconbridge) Copyright 2026 …
April 3 (Reuters) – The Kremlin is pushing Russians to use state-backed messenger MAX, but some are wary about the service and say they do not want to download it at all. In what has been cast by diplomats as Russia’s “great crackdown”, Russia has repeatedly blocked mobile internet and granted sweeping powers to cut …
The president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque was detained by federal immigration agents, drawing accusations Thursday from local officials and religious leaders that the arrest was motivated by his criticism of Israel. Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal permanent resident of the United States, was taken into custody by nearly a dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
April 2 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of the Interior will offer employees new opportunities to leave the agency as part of a plan to improve efficiency, it said in a statement on Thursday. Interior will offer a deferred resignation program and voluntary early retirement, it said, without giving details on the number of employees …
An American journalist was kidnapped in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Tuesday, March 31 adding to a growing number of attacks on journalists across the globe. Shelly Kittleson, 49, had freelanced in the region for more than a decade, writing for a slew of publications from Al-Monitor to Italy’s Il Foglio and Politico. Iraq’s …
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday threw out longtime litigation over education funding in the state, a decision that’s likely to keep intact the power to decide how much money to spend and where with the legislature, not judges. The 4-3 ruling, led by Republican justices on the court, set …
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The president of the 165,000-student University of Wisconsin system is fighting attempts by the board of regents to force him to retire or face being fired. The surprise effort to remove Jay Rothman from the post he has held since 2022 was detailed in letters Rothman sent to regents over the …
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could slap long-threatened pharmaceutical tariffs of up to 100% on some patented drugs from companies that don’t reach deals with his administration in the coming months. Companies that have signed a “most favored nation” pricing deal and are actively building facilities in …
KHARKIV, Ukraine, April 3 (Reuters) – Russian forces maintained a day-long barrage of drone strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, on Thursday, injuring at least two people, local officials said. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov posted reports on Telegram throughout the day and well into the evening, noting strikes in four city districts. One city …