By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lankan police fired live ammunition to scatter protesters on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring a dozen more, as the country sought rapid financial assistance from the International …
Biden, Johnson, Trudeau pledge artillery for Ukraine in battle against Russia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged on Tuesday to send more artillery weaponry to Ukraine in the face of an all-out Russian assault on that country’s Ea…
Black man shot in back of head by Michigan police, independent autopsy says
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -A Black man who was killed by a Grand Rapids, Michigan, police officer during a traffic stop earlier this month, sparking protests in the city, was shot in the back of the head, a forensic pathologist who performed an inde…
Ukrainian volunteers recount three weeks in Russian captivity, allege beatings
By Alessandra Prentice and Sergiy Karazy DYMER, Ukraine (Reuters) – Volodymyr Khropun and Yulia Ivannikova-Katsemon say they were helping people flee villages on the front line in northern Ukraine when they were detained by Russian soldiers over two da…
U.S. single-family starts tumble; construction backlog at record high
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. single-family homebuilding and permits tumbled in March as soaring mortgage rates increased costs, but residential construction remains underpinned by a severe shortage of houses. The report from the Commer…
Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
(Reuters) – Russia launched its long-awaited all-out assault on east Ukraine, unleashing thousands of troops in what Ukraine described as the Battle of the Donbas, a campaign to seize two provinces and salvage a battlefield victory. FIGHTING * Ukraine’…
U.S. seeks to seize superyacht in Fiji from suspected Russian owner
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -The United States is seeking to seize a superyacht suspected of belonging to a Russian oligarch that is docked in the Pacific island nation of Fiji, according to an application for a restraining order filed on Tuesda…
UK not looking to help Russia, minister says on prospect of prisoner swap
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is not going to be looking at how to help Russia, a senior minister said on Tuesday when asked about the prospect of swapping pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk for two British fighters who were captured in Ukraine by Ru…
Shanghai steps up quarantine transfers as new COVID cases decline
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Shanghai authorities on Tuesday pleaded for public cooperation with a massive new push to test most of the population for COVID-19 as the city steps up efforts to bring community transmission down to zero after nearly three weeks o…
Russia sets new Mariupol ultimatum in ‘Battle of Donbas’ as West pledges more help
By Pavel Polityuk and James Mackenzie KYIV/KHARKIV (Reuters) – Russia was intensifying its attack on Ukraine’s east on Tuesday as it seized a frontline city and sought a decisive victory in Mariupol, prompting Western governments to pledge more arms an…