Police in Zanzibar are holding an American citizen whose partner died under mysterious circumstances following a dispute at the hotel where they were staying. Joseph Isaac McCann, 45, was questioned by police on Monday, four days after his partner, Ashly Robinson, better known online as Ashlee Jenae, was found dead in her room. Investigators said …
President Trump says leaders of Israel and Lebanon will speak Thursday, as Washington pushes to ease hostilities after the rivals’ first direct talks in decades on Tuesday. “Trying to get a little breathing room between Israel and Lebanon,” Mr. Trump said late Wednesday on his Truth Social platform, apparently referring to the meeting held in …
BUDAPEST, April 16 (Reuters) – Over 90 journalists from Hungarian state news agency MTI have demanded the immediate restoration of impartial news coverage following election winner Peter Magyar’s pledge to shake up state media, according to a letter obtained by Reuters. Magyar, whose centre-right TISZA party scored a landslide victory in Sunday’s elections, said his …
NEW YORK (AP) — Masood Masjoody had a long history of firing accusations at those he considered adversaries. So when he claimed on social media last fall that two fellow Iran-born activists were plotting to kill him, it did not get much notice. Then the mathematician disappeared in early February. By mid-March, police in British …
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 …