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 …
The number of babies born in the United States fell again last year. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 3.6 million births in 2025, a 1% decline from 2024. The fertility rate dropped to 53.1 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, down 23% since 2007. …
The U.S. government is set to launch an online portal next week that lets businesses request refunds for tariffs deemed illegal by the Supreme Court. But payouts won’t be automatic, and legal experts said businesses could face other obstacles getting their money back. A federal agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), will boot up …
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is travelling to the western Cameroon city of Bamenda to preach a message of peace in the epicenter of a separatist conflict that humanitarian groups have called one of the world’s most neglected crises. Leo is to preside Thursday over a peace meeting involving a Mankon traditional chief, …
By Dawoud Abu Alkas , Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emma Farge GAZA/CAIRO/GENEVA, April 16 (Reuters) – Fourteen-year-old Fadel al-Naji used to be a keen footballer but is now largely confined to his home in Gaza City since both legs were severed in an Israeli drone attack in September. He sits sullenly on a couch with one …
MOSCOW, April 16 (Reuters) – Self-described witch Natalia Malinovskaya has a new client base: men fighting in eastern Ukraine, who, like a growing number of Russians, are drawn to the supernatural against a backdrop of conflict and economic uncertainty. In her darkened apartment in Moscow, Malinovskaya, who says she inherited her powers from her grandmother, …
By Edward McAllister, Alex Lefkowitz and Stoyan Nenov GORNO POLE, Bulgaria, April 16 (Reuters) – In a grassy valley in rural southern Bulgaria, farmer Nikolay Vasiliev is desperate for change. For years, he said, corrupt local officials have blocked plans to expand his cattle-raising business. Revolving governments in the capital Sofia have failed to uproot …