NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan police opened fire on a charging crowd of protesters in Nairobi on Monday, a Reuters reporter said, with one man subsequently seen lying motionless on the road with a visible bloodied wound. (Reporting by Edwin Okoth; Writing by Hereward HollandEditing by Bate Felix)
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Monday to renew the mandate of an LGBT rights expert, a move welcomed by advocates amid the absence of the United States, a former key supporter that is now rolling back such protections. Western diplomats had previously voiced concerns about the renewal of …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy discussed replacing the current ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, during his phone call with President Donald Trump on Friday, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The country’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal is on a list of potential candidates to become Kyiv’s envoy to …
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PARIS (Reuters) -A French man has been missing in Iran since mid-June, France’s minister responsible for the country’s residents abroad said on Monday, adding that Paris had no details on what had happened to the man. “It’s a worrying disappearance and we are in contact with the family,” Laurent Saint-Martin, who is also trade minister, …
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By Max Hunder and Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey KYIV (Reuters) -Oleksiy, a 26-year-old Ukrainian soldier, is six months into a difficult recovery after losing most of his left leg to an anti-personnel mine. Despite his injuries, he says Ukraine is right to withdraw from a treaty banning such weapons. Facing challenges in securing new U.S. supplies of …
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(Reuters) -Russian air defence units shot down eight Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow late on Sunday, from a total of 90 overnight over Russian territory, the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula, the defence ministry said. Most came down over regions near Ukraine, but three were also destroyed over the Leningrad area, home to Russia’s …
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By Christine Chen SYDNEY (Reuters) -An Australian police officer who fatally shot an Indigenous teenager during an attempted arrest in 2019 was racist and worked in an environment “with hallmarks of institutional racism”, a coroner has found. The killing of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker by then-Police Constable Zachary Rolfe in the remote Northern Territory community of …
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By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) -As soon as eight-year-old Sidra Al Bordeeni returned from the clinic with her prosthetic arm, she jumped on a bicycle in the Jordanian refugee camp where she lives, riding for the first time since a missile strike in Gaza took her arm a year ago. Sidra was injured while sheltering …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Victoria state will set up a anti-hate task force to help frame laws giving police more powers to tackle violent protests, as it probes an alleged arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue when worshippers were inside, it said on Monday. There were no injuries to the 20 people inside the East Melbourne …
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CAIRO/ATHENS (Reuters) -The crew of a Greek-operated bulk carrier hit by gunfire, drones and missiles in the Red Sea on Sunday were forced to abandon the vessel and were rescued by a passing ship, maritime security firms said, in an attack they said resembles that of Houthi militants. The assault, off the southwest coast of …
