The burns casualty ward of a hospital where a 23-year-old rape victim, who was set ablaze by a gang of men, including the alleged rapist, is being treated, is pictured in New Delhi, India, December 6, 2019. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A 23-year-old rape victim died in a hospital in the Indian capital
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FILE PHOTO: Francois Bayrou, leader of Mouvement Democrate (Democratic Movement), is seen in his car as he arrives to visit the Pic du Midi in the Pyrenees mountain with French President Emmanuel Macron (not pictured) at La Mongie in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, France, July 26, 2018. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/Pool PARIS (Reuters) – A French investigative judge on Friday
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) – Indian police shot dead four men on Friday who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian near Hyderabad city, drawing applause from her family and hundreds of citizens outraged over sexual violence against women. People gather at the site where police shot dead four men suspected of raping and
(Reuters) – For a candidate who has at times struggled to get noticed on social media, Joe Biden finally got some online attention on Thursday – for better or worse. First the Biden campaign posted a video on Twitter that brutally took down President Donald Trump, suggesting he is a laughingstock to other world leaders.
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis sees no reason to resign over an ongoing European Commission audit into conflicts of interest related to the sprawling conglomerate Agrofert, Pravo newspaper quoted him on Wednesday as saying. FILE PHOTO: Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis speaks during a news conference following talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr
LONDON (Reuters) – From Haiti’s devastating earthquake to war in Syria, Reuters photographers have covered the biggest news stories of the decade, capturing images of armed conflict, natural disasters, the plight of migrants and the drama of sport. Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York City, New York, U.S., September 24, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he did not want to
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong on Sunday, ending a rare lull in violence, as residents took to the streets chanting “revolution of our time” and “liberate Hong Kong”. The protest in the busy shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui followed a march by
VALETTA (Reuters) – One of Malta’s wealthiest men, Yorgen Fenech, was charged in a Valletta court on Saturday with complicity to murder in the car bomb killing of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017. Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech, who was arrested in connection with an investigation into the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia,
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed “great satisfaction” over the latest test of a large multiple-rocket launcher, state media said on Friday, a launch that experts said showcased improving performance by the system and its crews. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversees a super-large multiple launch rocket system test in
DURRES, Albania (Reuters) – Search teams pulled the bodies of a mother, her two-year-old twins and seven-year-old son from the rubble of a house in the western Albanian town of Durres on Thursday, as the death toll from the country’s worst ever quake climbed to 46. European and Albanian search teams also pulled a dead
GENEVA (Reuters) – The exiled leader of China’s minority Muslim Uighurs is pressing countries to cut trade links with Beijing, saying the time for business as usual is over. FILE PHOTO: Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uighur Congress, attends an event concerning China ahead of the Human Rights Council review in Geneva, Switzerland, November
NGHE AN, Vietnam (Reuters) – With tears in their eyes and white roses in their hands, friends and relatives of the 39 Vietnamese people who were found dead in the back of a British truck last month sobbed as the first bodies to be repatriated arrived in rural Vietnam on Wednesday. Ambulances from Ha Tinh
FILE PHOTO: Argentina’s President-elect Alberto Fernandez speaks during a news conference after a meeting with Uruguay’s President Tabare Vazquez at the Presidential House in Montevideo, Uruguay November 14, 2019. REUTERS/Mariana Greif BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernandez said on Tuesday he plans to appoint moderate Peronist economist Marco Lavagna to head the government’s
TIRANA (Reuters) – At least six people have died after the most powerful earthquake to hit Albania in decades rocked the capital of Tirana and surrounding region early on Tuesday, causing several buildings to collapse and burying residents in the rubble. The 6.4 magnitude quake struck shortly before 4 a.m. local time (0300 GMT), the
FILE PHOTO: Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori and leader of the opposition in Peru attends court as part of an investigation into money laundering, in Lima, Peru October 24, 2018. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s Constitutional Tribunal on Monday ordered the release of opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, jailed last year for