Armenia is considering seeking EU membership, foreign minister says
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo (Reuters) – Armenia is considering applying for European Union membership, foreign minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Friday, as it seeks to forge closer ties with the West in the face of tensions with…
UNRWA chief ‘cautiously optimistic’ some donors will resume funding soon
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Philippe Lazzarini, head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, attends a news conference during an informal EU Development Ministers Council, in Brussels, Belgium February 12, 2024. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) -The head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency said he was cautiously optimistic some donors would…
Charity loads food aid on to barge in Cyprus headed for Gaza
3/3 © Reuters. Workers stand near a rescue vessel of the Spanish NGO Open Arms at the port of Larnaca, Cyprus March 9, 2024. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou 2/3 By Yiannis Kourtoglou and Stamos Prousalis LARNACA, Cyprus, March 9 (Reuters) – Charity workers loaded relief supplies bound for Gaza on to a barge in Cyprus on Saturday…
Sudan’s RSF paramilitaries welcome UN call for cessation of hostilities in Ramadan
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Sudanese woman, who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan’s Darfur region, walks beside carts carrying her family belongings upon crossing the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad August 2, 2023. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo CAIRO (Reuters) -Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group on Saturday welcomed a call by…
Venezuela arrests close ally of opposition leader Machado
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks during an interview with Reuters, in Caracas, Venezuela February 9, 2024. REUTERS/Gaby Oraa/File Photo CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s attorney general on Saturday announced the arrest of a regional campaign leader for opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, citing alleged conspiracy, among other crimes. Attorney General…
Irish government ‘walloped’ by referendum defeats
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar walks to cast his vote in a referendum on changes to the Irish constitution called the Family Amendment and the Care Amendment, at Scoil Treasa Naofa in Dublin, Ireland March 8, 2024. REUTERS/C DUBLIN (Reuters) -Irish voters have rejected proposals to replace constitutional references to…
Biden makes contradictory comments on Gaza ‘red line’ in MSNBC interview
© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. March 9, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said in an MSNBC interview on Saturday that Israel’s threatened invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza would be his “red line” for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
Gaza talks mediators pushing to secure truce, Israel says
5/5 © Reuters. A Palestinian woman and a child look on at the site of an Israeli air strike on a building, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip March 9, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem 2/5 By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Bassam Masoud CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza…
Pope says Ukraine should have ‘courage of the white flag’ of negotiations
2/2 © Reuters. Pope Francis shakes hands with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, at the Vatican, May 13, 2023. Vatican Media via REUTERS 2/2 By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine should have what he called the courage of the “white flag” and negotiate an end to the war with Russia…
Honduras ex-President Hernandez convicted at US drugs trial
5/5 © Reuters. Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez testifies during his trial on U.S. drug trafficking charges in federal court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., March 6, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg 2/5 By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez was found guilty…
