“Essentially, people have left everything in the north – their houses, their businesses, their lives. They’ve come to the south where they are struggling to find shelter, food is scarce, many people are having to drink unpotable water, so the situation in the south is dire.”
KHUTORY, Ukraine, April 21 (Reuters) – Petro Hurin says his health has never been the same since he was sent 40 years ago to clear the Chornobyl site in the wake of the world’s worst nuclear accident. He was among hundreds of thousands of ‘liquidators’ brought in to clean up after the explosion at reactor
Washington, US Vice President J D Vance is likely to travel to Islamabad on Tuesday for peace talks with Iran to end the seven-week war, according to a media report. Vance likely to travel to Islamabad on Tuesday: report On Monday, US President Donald Trump told The New York Post that the Vance-led delegation was
April 21 (Reuters) – Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev arrived in North Korea for talks on cooperation between the two allies, the ministry’s spokeswoman Irina Volk said early on Tuesday. “Issues of cooperation between the two countries in the field of law enforcement will be considered,” Volk wrote on Telegram. Pictures showed the minister being
TOKYO, April 21 (Reuters) – Japan on Tuesday unveiled its biggest overhaul of defence export rules in decades, scrapping restrictions on overseas arms sales and opening the way for exports of warships, missiles and other weapons. The move aimed at strengthening Japan’s defence industrial base marks another step away from pacifist restraints that have shaped
ANKARA, April 20 (Reuters) – Turkey will tighten gun-ownership rules and increase penalties for owners whose children find the firearms, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday after last week’s rare, deadly school shootings. The second of the two separate attacks by students last week killed eight pupils and a teacher in a southeastern province of
New Delhi: Many believed the war in the Middle East would be swift, but it has been over 40 days into the US-Israel military campaign against Iran and the war’s trajectory has confounded what Washington’s policymakers had predicted, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Zeteo Mehdi Hasan told NDTV in an exclusive interview. Despite facing two nuclear-armed
NAIROBI, April 20 (Reuters) – Tigray’s main political party said it was taking back control of the region’s government, effectively voiding a peace deal with Ethiopia’s federal government that ended one of the century’s deadliest conflicts. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) made the statement in a Facebook post on Sunday, accusing the federal government
new video loaded: Keir Starmer Addresses Parliament on Mandelson Vetting Process transcript Back transcript Keir Starmer Addresses Parliament on Mandelson Vetting Process Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain told Parliament he was not informed that Peter Mandelson, his former ambassador to the United States, was initially rejected for the country’s top security clearance. I know
US President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at the Democrats, alleging attempts to hurt Washington’s position amid the ongoing war with Iran. The Republican has clarified that he is not under any “pressure” with respect to making a deal with Iran, further adding to the uncertainty over the future of the war. Donald Trump
Police said several victims and suspects have been identified. Two people were killed after a planned fight among young people escalated into a mass shooting at a park in North Carolina on Monday. The shooting happened around 10 am at Leinbach Park, where multiple people fired at each other. “The NC SBI is currently responding
LONDON, April 20 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday said he had asked the group overseeing security standards across government to examine any security concerns raised during Peter Mandelson’s tenure as ambassador to the United States. Starmer told lawmakers it was staggering that he had not been told that Mandelson had failed
REUTERS/NOEL CELIS I Marine Expeditionary Force Commanding General and U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General Christian Wortman speaks during the opening ceremony of the U.S.-Philippines “Balikatan” joint military exercises at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, on Monday. MANILA >> Philippine and U.S. forces will carry out maritime strike drills on a remote Philippine
DanceBlue raises over 2 million dollars for the DanceBlue pediatric oncology clinic on April 19, 2026. Photo by Carter Skaggs | UKphoto Carter Skaggs | UKphoto The University of Kentucky’s 24-hour dance marathon fundraiser, known as DanceBlue, raised a record-breaking $2.4 million for childhood cancer this weekend. The event, which took place at Rupp Arena
MOSCOW, April 20 (Reuters) – A celebrity blogger whose sharp criticism of the authorities has been watched by tens of millions of Russians has hit back after one of state TV’s best-known political presenters accused her of working for the West and called for her to be investigated. Vladimir Solovyov, a fiery talk show host
Donald Trump projected himself as a peace President when he ran for a second term in the White House in 2024. The data backed him; he was the only President to not declare a new war during his first term after Jimmy Carter, though it’s a name he doesn’t want to be associated with. President
The next local elections are taking place on Thursday, May 7 The deadline for registering to vote is rapidly approaching(Image: PA) People have just hours left before the deadline for registering to vote in the upcoming local elections taking place in England, Scotland and Wales on May 7. Elections are being held on the first
A total of 30 wards are up for election in the city 14:06, 20 Apr 2026Updated 14:08, 20 Apr 2026 Seats across the city are up for election(Image: Rui Vieira/PA Wire) The 2026 local elections are fast approaching this year with candidates set to stand across the city. In Bradford, 30 wards are up for
ISLAMABAD, April 20 (Reuters) – Pakistan has put a $1.5 billion deal to supply weapons and jets to Sudan on hold after Saudi Arabia asked for the agreement to be terminated and said it would not finance the purchase, two Pakistani security sources and a diplomatic source said. The conflict between Sudan’s army and the
By Yesim Dikmen and Joshua McElwee SAURIMO, Angola, April 20 (Reuters) – Pope Leo lamented during an event in Angola on Monday that many people in the world were being “exploited by authoritarians and defrauded by the rich”, the latest example of a forceful new speaking style he has adopted on his four-nation Africa tour.
MANILA, April 20 (Reuters) – Philippine and U.S. forces will carry out maritime strike drills on a remote Philippine island near Taiwan during annual exercises that started on Monday, which Manila’s military chief said would test their readiness under “real‑world conditions”. The April 20 to May 8 exercises known as “Balikatan”, or “shoulder-to-shoulder”, will be
