“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.”
MANILA, March 27 (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Friday that the ASEAN Leaders’ summit will go ahead in May, but will be shortened to a “bare-bones” programme that focuses on addressing issues like fuel supplies, food prices and migrant workers. Marcos said he has consulted with his counterparts in the regional
Michele Hundley Smith, the North Carolina mom of three who was found last month after she went missing in 2001, has shared an emotional reunion with her daughter. Michele arrived at the Rockingham County district courthouse on Thursday for a hearing related to a charge she was issued before her disappearance more than 24 years
Trump said he was delaying taking potential action because talks aimed at ending the conflict are going “very well,” despite the fact that Iran continues to publicly insist it is not negotiating with the White House on a 15-point proposal — delivered by Pakistani intermediaries — to end the war. He said Iran had asked
SEOUL, March 27 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko held a summit in Pyongyang on Thursday, where the two leaders signed a friendship treaty, North Korea’s state media KCNA reported. The two countries signed agreements on cooperation in various sectors, including diplomacy, agriculture, education and public health, KCNA
MOSCOW, March 26 (Reuters) – Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday that its forces had taken control of a new village in its slow advance through eastern Ukraine, Sheviakivka in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. Ukraine’s military made no acknowledgement that the village on the Russian border had changed hands. A Ukrainian paratroop unit said it had
A 20-story tall, 1.3 million-pound Atlas V rocket will blast off from Florida, and it’s possible people in Fort Myers − and other states along the East Coast − can see it light up the sky. Teams with United Launch Alliance are prepping for the Atlas V rocket launch, the fifth Amazon Leo constellation mission.
By John Irish and Andrew Gray VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France, March 26 (Reuters) – European powers on Thursday accused Russia of helping Iran target U.S. forces in the Middle East war and said they would raise the issue with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in France. Rubio is joining
Israel has moved thousands of troops across the border into Lebanon, and Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah militants have been fighting on the ground for at least three weeks. Israeli officials, including the defense minister, said they want to take control of the entire area south of the Litani River — some 20 miles (about
NEED TO KNOW Ruby Cosby says a Southwest Airlines agent canceled her ticket after they refused to let her board without an extra seat The agent allegedly cited the airline’s new “customers of size” policy, but Cosby says she can fit in one seat just fine She eventually flew Delta to make her trip but
VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France, March 26 (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of the G7 group of nations will discuss repair works worth about 500 million euros ($576.30 million) for the protective shield of Ukraine’s Chornobyl nuclear plant, France’s foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Thursday. “The G7 must play a leading role in this fundraising, in close
In an alert, the UN World Health Organization, WHO, warned that Cuban hospitals have been struggling to maintain emergency and intensive care services. “Thousands of surgeries have been postponed during the last month and people needing care…have been put at risk” from the lack of available power for medical equipment, said WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom
A woman who defrauded more than £23,000 in benefits claiming she was too ill to go outside has avoided jail after she was caught surfing and ziplining in Mexico. Catherine Wieland, 33, claimed she suffered anxiety so crippling she was housebound, but the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said it discovered she had been
MADRID, March 26 (Reuters) – The Iranian embassy in Spain said on Thursday that Iran would be receptive to any request from Madrid related to the Strait of Hormuz because Spain respects international law, in what is the first such concession offered to an EU state. Spain has a relatively small merchant fleet but was
By Daniel Flynn and Olena Harmash KYIV, March 26 (Reuters) – Ukraine is using long-range strikes on energy infrastructure to maintain pressure on Russia after international oil sanctions on Moscow were eased this month in the wake of the Iran war, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Washington issued a 30-day waiver this month for countries to
Some things are just fundamentally part of American culture. Baseball. Apple pie. Catchy ad campaigns. And small-block Chevrolets. For only the sixth time since the small-block arrived inside the Corvette back in 1955, General Motors has announced an entirely new small-block V-8. Known as the LS6, this new 6.7-liter unit perfectly blends the small block
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Iran to make a deal to end U.S. and Israeli bombing or face more strikes on their country. “They now have the chance, that is Iran, to permanently abandon their nuclear ambitions and to join a new path forward,” Trump said during a Cabinet
A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.5 struck off the coast of Sanriku in northern Japan, around 122 km east of Yamada on Thursday. The quake occurred at a depth of about 9.5 to 10 km, according to data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), indicating a relatively shallow
PARIS, March 26 (Reuters) – The European Unions is worried about Ukraine being pressured by the United States into ceding territory in negotiations with Russia, the EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Thursday. “This is clearly a wrong approach. It is, of course, the Russian playbook of negotiations, that they are demanding something that
Another individual who was killed in the incident was of Pakistani origin An Indian national was killed by falling debris after a ballistic missile was intercepted over Abu Dhabi on Thursday. Another Indian was injured in the incident along with two other individuals of Emirati and Jordanian nationalities. Another individual who was killed in the
MOSCOW, March 26 (Reuters) – Russia is in contact with the United States about a new round of talks on a Ukraine peace settlement as soon as conditions allow, the Kremlin said on Thursday. “We remain open, we are in contact with the Americans, and we are counting on holding the next round of talks
