GENEVA, March 27 (Reuters) – More than 1,700 people were killed, nearly 200,000 displaced and multiple actors including Syrian government forces, tribal fighters and Druze armed groups committed acts that may amount to war crimes during a week of violence in southern Syria in July 2025, a U.N. investigation said on Friday. The 85-page report …
(Corrects name to Sofia in paragraph 26) TUNIS, March 27 (Reuters) – The families of dozens of jailed opposition figures in Tunisia are among the few remaining voices demanding democratic freedoms, as they seek the release of loved ones held in what rights groups have called a crackdown on dissent by President Kais Saied. The …
CAIRO, March 27 (Reuters) – Hamas would be required to allow the destruction of its vast Gaza tunnel network as it lays down its arms in stages under a disarmament plan that was presented to the militants by U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace”, and viewed by Reuters. The plan follows an eight-month timeline …
By Yuddy Cahya Budiman and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA, March 27 (Reuters) – Armed with a smartphone, Anza Zafran Utama, a 9-year-old boy in the Indonesian city of Bogor, is either a dinosaur or a shooter, depending on his mood. Zafran and his friends regularly hang out on Roblox, the U.S. platform where children can build …
Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is likely to change his plea to guilty when he next appears in court, a source with knowledge of the case tells CBS News New York’s Carolyn Gusoff. Heuermann, of Massapequa Park, previously pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of seven women between 1993 and …
Attorneys for Fulton County, Georgia, are set to argue in federal court Friday for the return of over 650 boxes of material related to the 2020 election after the FBI seized the boxes at the county’s elections office last month while executing a search warrant. Last month, the FBI executed a search warrant at a …
Problems at U.S. airports could worsen beyond hours-long security lines and missed flights if Congress does not agree on a way to pay Transportation Security Administration officers. Federal officials have warned that staffing shortages may close some smaller airports to passengers and commercial flights. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and the TSA’s acting leaders said they …
March 26 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield. Anthropic’s lawsuit in California federal court alleges that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth overstepped his authority when he designated Anthropic a national …
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – Major U.S. cities have experienced a population decline, the U.S. Census Bureau said on Thursday, which the White House touted as the result of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Although the U.S. population grew by 1.8 million people last year, the Census review found an average 0.6% increase in population …
MOSCOW, March 26 (Reuters) – Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday that its forces had taken control of a new village in its slow advance through eastern Ukraine, Sheviakivka in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. Ukraine’s military made no acknowledgement that the village on the Russian border had changed hands. A Ukrainian paratroop unit said it had …