BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO on Tuesday extended Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s contract by another year, opting to stick with an experienced leader rather than try to agree on a successor as war rages on the alliance’s doorstep.
Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday accused each other of plotting to stage an attack on the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, long the subject of mutual recriminations and suspicions.
Israeli forces began withdrawing from the Palestinian city of Jenin on Tuesday, a defence source and Reuters witnesses said, after carrying out one of their biggest military operations in the occupied West Bank for years.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday restricted some agencies and officials of the administration of President Joe Biden from meeting and communicating with social media companies to moderate their content, according to a court filing.
In the down-at-heel Paris suburb of Bondy, where Kylian Mbappe grew up, some residents have looked to the 24-year-old France soccer star for guidance on how to react to a wave of rioting in their community and many others like it.
The family of 16-year-old Noureddin Marshoud wept over his body as it laid in a morgue in Jenin on Tuesday, after he was killed during an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank.
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted an eight-year-old girl in the Kremlin on Tuesday and got her to join him in a bizarre phone call to his finance minister to ask for a budget grant for her home region.
A white powder found inside the White House late on Sunday, which led to the temporary closure of part of the presidential complex, was identified by Washington fire department as cocaine, the Washington Post reported.
(Reuters) -Israel unleashed a major raid on July 3 on Jenin refugee camp, a Palestinian militant stronghold in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, killing at least 10 Palestinians in clashes with gunmen.
LONDON (Reuters) -The remaining insurers in a United Nations-backed coalition aimed at tackling climate change are poised to loosen the alliance's membership requirements, after a recent exodus of members, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The U.N.-convened Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) is set to remove a six-month deadline for members to publish greenhouse gas emissions targets alongside other changes to make membership less prescriptive, the sources said.
Finnish and Swedish membership is expected to help NATO redress its vulnerability in northwest Europe, as the alliance reshapes its defense strategy in the face of Russia and the Ukraine war. Reuters has been granted rare access to Sweden's state-of-the-art submarine fleet. Matthew Larotonda has the details.
In state after state, conservative lawmakers this year have banned medical procedures for transgender youth. Now, a growing number of federal judges are blocking those laws from taking effect.