WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed described his experience in a Russian psychiatric facility in an interview broadcast on Friday, detailing squalid conditions amid severely mentally ill inmates. Reed, detained in Russia in 2019, was…
Canada imposes additional sanctions on Russian oligarchs, bans some luxury goods trade
(Reuters) – Canada said on Friday it was imposing additional sanctions on Russian oligarchs and banning the import and export of targeted luxury goods from Russia in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The new measures would put restrictions on 1…
WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases cross 100 in Europe
By Jennifer Rigby and Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, after more than …
Russia ramps up assault aiming to seize Ukrainian province for separatists
By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Russian troops bombarded a riverside city on Friday in what appeared to herald a major assault to seize the last remaining Ukrainian-held territory in a province it claims on behalf of separatists. Ukrainian officials …
Thousands queue for petrol, gas in Sri Lanka amid warnings of food shortages
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Thousands of people queued for cooking gas and petrol in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital on Friday and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe warned of a food shortage as the island nation battle…
Buffalo, N.Y., mass murder suspect returns to court as grand jury probes rampage
By Tyler Clifford BUFFALO, N.Y. (Reuters) – The 18-year-old white man accused of killing 10 people in a livestreamed shooting in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, briefly appeared in court on Thursday in a case that has spurred a national deba…
U.S. sanctions Lebanese businessman, his companies over Hezbollah links
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday issued new Hezbollah-related sanctions, designating Lebanese businessman and the Iran-backed group’s financial facilitator, Ahmad Jalal Reda Abdallah, and his companies. A…
Canada to ban Huawei/ZTE 5G equipment, joining Five Eyes allies
By David Ljunggren and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada on Thursday said it plans to ban the use of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp 5G gear to protect national security, joining the rest of the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sha…
Biden cheers Finland, Sweden NATO plans as Turkey balks
By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden met with the leaders of Finland and Sweden at the White House on Thursday to offer robust U.S. support for their applications to join NATO, while Turkey threatened to block the N…
U.S. expert advisory panel backs COVID boosters for children
By Manas Mishra and Michael Erman (Reuters) – An advisory panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday voted to recommend COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for children ages 5 to 11, at least five months after completing …