Reuters UK Top

By John Davison, Michelle Nichols, Emma Farge, Emily Rose and Farah Saafan CAIRO (Reuters) – In mid-March, a line of trucks stretched for 3 kilometers along a desert road near a crossing point from Israel into the Gaza Strip. On the same day, another line of trucks, some 1.5 kilometers long, sometimes two or three …

Special Report-Destruction, lawlessness and red tape hobble aid as Gazans go hungry Read More »

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A released Israeli hostage recounted sexual assault at gunpoint by one of the Palestinian militants who held her captive in Gaza, in a first such personal account published on Tuesday in an interview with the New York Times. Amit Soussana, 40, was taken hostage on Oct. 7 from Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Security …

Israeli hostage recounts sexual assault in Gaza captivity -NYT Read More »

KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismissed the secretary of Ukraine’s national security council and replaced him with the head of his foreign spy agency on Tuesday in a new shake-up that follows the overhaul of the military high command last month. No reason for the changes was given in a series of blandly worded decrees …

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy replaces top security official in new reshuffle Read More »

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -The director of Russia’s most powerful security agency said on Tuesday that he believed Ukraine, along with the United States and Britain, were involved in the attack on a concert hall just outside Moscow that killed at least 139 people. Ukraine, which has repeatedly denied any link with Friday’s attack, …

Russia’s FSB chief accuses Ukraine, US and UK of being behind Moscow shooting Read More »

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s international peace overseer on Tuesday imposed changes to the country’s election law to ensure its integrity, including barring convicted war criminals from running, ahead of a vote in October. The former German politician Christian Schmidt said the aim of the “integrity package” was to restore voter trust through measures such as …

Bosnia’s peace envoy imposes ‘integrity package’ to reform election law Read More »

LONDON (Reuters) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that the gunmen who attacked Moscow’s Crocus City Hall music venue on Friday tried initially to flee to Belarus, not Ukraine as Russian officials including President Vladimir Putin have insisted. Putin said Ukraine had prepared a “window” for the attackers to cross the border – …

Lukashenko says concert hall attackers first headed for Belarus, contradicting Putin Read More »

MOSCOW/DUSHANBE (Reuters) – Russia remanded in custody on Tuesday a Kyrgyzstan-born man suspected of involvement in Friday’s mass shooting at a Moscow concert hall, and sent investigators to Tajikistan to question the families of four men charged with carrying out the attack. Eight suspects have now been remanded in pre-trial detention since gunmen sprayed concertgoers …

Eighth suspect in Moscow attack appears in court, rights commissioner warns on torture Read More »

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will introduce temporary border controls as part of ramped-up security around soccer’s 2024 European Championship which it is hosting, the interior minister said. The tournament starts on June 14 and is set to attract 2.7 million fans to stadiums and up to 12 million at public viewing events. “For the Euros, …

Germany plans border controls for soccer Euros tournament Read More »

(Reuters) – Russia’s commissioner for human rights has called the use of torture against detainees unacceptable, the TASS news agency reported on Tuesday. She was speaking after the publication of videos showing the interrogation of suspects in last week’s attack at the Crocus City concert hall near Moscow that killed at least 139 people and …

Russian human rights commissioner calls torture of detainees unacceptable Read More »