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GENEVA, April 16 (Reuters) – Over 4 million people are set to be newly displaced around the world by the end of next year as donors step back from providing life-saving aid, the Danish Refugee Council said on Thursday. There are already some 117 million people forcibly displaced worldwide as the number of conflicts has …
Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia launched its deadliest aerial assault so far this year on Ukrainekilling 16 people, including a 12-year-old child, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said Thursday’s overnight attack included nearly 700 drones and 19 ballistic missiles targeting cities across the country. Ukraine’s capital bore some of the heaviest damage. Kyiv Mayor …
Washington — As fallout from the war with Iran keeps fuel prices highfew states are making moves to suspend their gas and diesel taxes. Tax policy experts say suspending the state and federal motor fuel taxes wouldn’t be as effective in lowering prices at the pump as one might think, and could come at a …
DUBAI, April 16 (Reuters) – Iran and the United States have made some progress as they push for an agreement under Pakistani mediation, but more than halfway through a two-week truce big splits remain including over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, a senior Iranian official said on Thursday. “The trip of the Pakistani army chief to Tehran …
MIDDELBURG, Netherlands, April 16 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was in the Netherlands on Thursday to accept the International Four Freedoms Award, given to him and the Ukrainian people to honour their courage during four years of war with Russia. The awards are named after U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 speech outlining four …
PRETORIA, April 16 (Reuters) – South African police said they have arrested prominent pan‑African and pro-Russian activist Kemi Seba who is wanted by authorities in Benin for backing an attempted coup there, and have launched extradition proceedings. Benin issued an arrest warrant for Seba in December 2025 for “inciting rebellion” after he publicly supported an …
MIDDELBURG, Netherlands (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was being awarded the prestigious International Four Freedoms Award at a ceremony Thursday for his and his nation’s courage and resilience in resisting the full-scale invasion launched more than four years ago by Russia. The honor was bestowed by the Roosevelt Foundation that was created in 1982 …
KUGOMPO CITY, South Africa, April 16 (Reuters) – South African opposition politician Julius Malema was given a five-year prison sentence on Thursday for firing a rifle in the air at a rally, a magistrate’s court decided. Malema, 45, is one of South Africa’s most prominent politicians. He was convicted last year on five charges including …
ANKARA, April 16 (Reuters) – A 14-year-old student who shot at least nine people dead, including eight of his fellow pupils, at a school in southeastern Turkey had used an image referencing a 2014 U.S. mass killer, Elliot Rodger, on his WhatsApp profile, Turkish police said on Thursday. In Turkey’s second school shooting in just …
BEIJING (AP) — A court in Kazakhstan convicted 19 activists after a protest against Beijing’s crackdown in China’s far-western Xinjiang region last year, in what experts and advocates said was the largest move yet by the Kazakh government to silence criticism at Beijing’s behest. The activists, all of whom were Kazakh nationals, protested near the …