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Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico still in serious condition, officials say

By Bernadett Szabo and Jan Lopatka BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (Reuters) -Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico remains in serious condition and still faces risks of complications but has stabilised, officials said on Saturday, following Wednesday’s assassination attempt. The prime minister, 59, was shot at five times at point-blank range in an attack that sent shockwaves through …

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Anger, anxiety, acrimony: Slovaks weigh what led to Fico shooting

(Corrects garbled word ‘that’ in paragraph 1) By Boldizsar Gyori, Kuba Stezycki and Jan Lopatka HANDLOVA, Slovakia/BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovak opposition party leader Michal Simecka, who described an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Robert Fico this week as an attack on democracy, said on Friday that he, his wife and child had received death threats. …

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Parents of German-Israeli woman whose body found in Gaza thankful to have a grave

By Rami Amichay and Michal Yaakov Itzhaki SRIGIM, Israel (Reuters) – German-Israeli Shani Louk’s father says that finally laying his daughter to rest will be a gift after her body was recovered from Gaza, months after she was killed in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. Louk, a 23-year-old tattoo artist, was celebrating with …

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Australians stranded in New Caledonia ‘running out of food’ amid civil unrest

SYDNEY/PARIS (Reuters) -Australians stranded in New Caledonia are rationing food as they wait for a way out of the Pacific island territory, amid unrest that has killed six people, a traveller from Sydney said on Saturday. They are among 3,200 people who are stuck waiting to leave or enter the French-ruled territory as commercial flights …

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Eight arrested after climate activists breach German airport

By Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) -German police arrested eight climate activists who breached the grounds of Munich airport on Saturday, briefly causing the airport to close and leading to around 60 flight cancellations during a busy holiday weekend. Six of the activists glued themselves to a runway, a police spokesperson said, adding the situation was …

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Putin ally says EU is hypocritical for ban on Russian media

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The speaker of Russia’s parliament scolded the European Union on Saturday for banning the distribution of four Russian media outlets and said it showed how the West refused to accept any alternative point of view and was destroying freedom of speech. The European Union said on Friday it was suspending the distribution …

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Fierce fighting in northern Gaza as aid starts to roll off US-built pier

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces battled Hamas fighters in the narrow alleyways of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Friday in some of the fiercest engagements since they returned to the area a week ago, while in the south militants attacked tanks massing around Rafah. Residents said Israeli armour had thrust as far as …

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Palestinian truckers fear for safety after convoy for Gaza wrecked

HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian hauliers said on Tuesday they feared for the security of supply convoys to Gaza, a day after Israeli protesters wrecked trucks carrying goods bound for the enclave, which is facing a severe hunger crisis. Footage circulated on social media showed at least one burning truck while other images showed …

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Ukrainian drone attack kills one in Belgorod in southern Russia, governor says

(Reuters) – A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and injured another in southern Russia’s Belgorod region, Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Friday. Gladkov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the drone hit the village of Novaya Naumovka, just inside the Russian border, where the two residents were tending a garden. Russia’s Defence …

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