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Russia’s Medvedev calls protesters at polling stations ‘traitors’

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday that protesters who have attempted to set fire to voting booths and pour dye into ballot boxes during Russia’s presidential election were “traitors” helping the country’s enemies. “This is direct assistance to those degenerates who are shelling our cities today,” he said in a Telegram …

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Croatian president calls for ‘national salvation government’ after polls

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – President Zoran Milanovic called for a “government of national salvation” on Saturday as Croatia’s constitutional court said it would consider the constitutional and electoral implications of his shock bid for the more powerful post of prime minister. The president set April 17 as an election date on Friday after lawmakers in the …

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Aid supply ship from Cyprus reaches Gaza coast but weather slows delivery

GAZA STRIP (Reuters) -A ship towing a barge loaded with food arrived off Gaza on Friday, witnesses said, in a test run for a new aid route by sea from Cyprus into the devastated Palestinian enclave where famine looms after five months of Israel’s military campaign. The ship, arranged by the World Central Kitchen (WCK) …

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Israel approves plan to attack Rafah but keeps truce hopes alive

By Bassam Masoud, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Samia Nakhoul GAZA STRIP/CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) – Israel on Friday approved a potential assault on the Gaza city of Rafah while also keeping ceasefire hopes alive with plans to send another delegation to Qatar for talks on a possible hostage deal with Islamist militant group Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …

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Russia’s FSB detains suspected Ukraine agent planning railway attack-TASS

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had detained a 61-year-old Russian man for planning what it called a terrorist attack on Ukraine’s behalf on a Trans-Siberian railway junction in the Ural mountains’ Sverdlovsk region, state news agency TASS reported. TASS quoted the FSB as saying the man had been …

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Ukrainian authorities launch mass evacuation in northern region

(Reuters) – Ukrainian authorities have begun mass evacuations of communities in the country’s northern Sumy region close to the Russian border after extended periods of intense shelling of the area, local officials said on Friday. The military administration of Sumy region, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said more than 180 residents of areas near …

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Ambrey says fuel tanker in Red Sea attacked, two explosions reported

CAIRO (Reuters) -A Marshall Islands-flagged liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker reported two explosions near the ship as it travelled off the coast of Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah, the third merchant vessel attack of the past 48 hours, British security firm Ambrey said on Friday. The crew from the ship involved in the latest Red …

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Factbox-Donald Trump’s tangled web of legal and financial worries

(Reuters) -Donald Trump has won a series of delays as he seeks to avoid going to trial on any of four criminal indictments before the Nov. 5 U.S. election, when the Republican former president aims to unseat Democratic President Joe Biden. Trump denies any wrongdoing. SPECIAL COUNSEL’S ELECTION SUBVERSION CHARGES The U.S. Supreme Court will …

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Citing alleged abuses on OnlyFans, lawmakers call for stronger safeguards

By Linda So and Andrew R.C. Marshall (Reuters) – Three U.S. lawmakers and two in Britain called for tougher safeguards against online sexual exploitation after a Reuters investigation this week identified more than 140 police complaints of nonconsensual pornography on OnlyFans, the popular adults-only website. “It is absolutely unconscionable,” U.S. Representative Ann Wagner, a Missouri …

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