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Ukraine accuses Russia of orchestrating attempt to assassinate prominent blogger

2 May 2025

By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s internal security agency, the SBU, on Friday accused Russian intelligence of orchestrating an attempt to assassinate a prominent Ukrainian blogger, accusing a 45-year-old woman of carrying out the failed hit. The attempt to kill internet personality Serhii Sternenko, who once led the local chapter of a right-wing group …

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Gaza tensions flare over dwindling supplies as blockade persists, aid worker says

2 May 2025

GENEVA (Reuters) – Fights are erupting over dwindling supplies in Gaza, a United Nations aid official said on Friday, as Israel’s total blockade on supplies into the enclave hit the two-month mark. Since March 2, Israel has completely cut off all supplies to the 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip, and food stockpiled during …

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Russia not a threat to NATO, Romanian hard-right presidental favourite says

2 May 2025

By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romanian hard-right politician George Simion, poised to win Sunday’s presidential election first round re-run, said Russia is not a significant threat to NATO, and the only risk to the eastern flank of the alliance is NATO’s own dismantling. The eurosceptic nationalist leads opinion polls before the first round of …

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Ukraine’s parliament will vote on ratifying U.S. minerals deal on May 8, lawmaker says

2 May 2025

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament will hold a vote on May 8 to ratify a minerals deal signed with the United States earlier this week, a lawmaker said on Friday, while the prime minister suggested the agreement will help Kyiv with supplies of air defence systems. Ukraine and the U.S. signed a deal on Wednesday …

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How Trump blindsided Netanyahu with his Iran nuclear gamble

2 May 2025

By Samia Nakhoul, Humeyra Pamuk, Parisa Hafezi WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump blindsided Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month with a gamble on immediately opening negotiations with Iran. Now, the success of those talks hinges on winning a handful of key concessions to stop the Islamic Republic developing a nuclear bomb, eight sources …

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Exclusive-WHO to back use of weight-loss drugs for adults globally, raises cost issue

2 May 2025

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -The World Health Organization plans to officially back the use of weight-loss drugs to treat obesity in adults for the first time, a memo reviewed by Reuters on Thursday showed, marking a shift in its approach to treating the global health problem. The UN agency also called for strategies to …

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Peace in exchange for land? For many Ukrainians, it’s too painful to contemplate

2 May 2025

By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – Vitali Klitschko, the former heavyweight boxer who is now mayor of Kyiv, ventured last month into hazardous political territory: he delicately suggested in an interview that Ukraine might need to cede land to end its battle against Russia. After a flood of angry online comments, he walked back his …

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Belarus opposition warns against concessions to Lukashenko over release of US prisoner

2 May 2025

By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) – The United States should not be “fooled” by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko into offering concessions following the release of a U.S. prisoner freed as a gift to Donald Trump, a senior aide to the exiled opposition leader of Belarus said. U.S. officials announced on Wednesday the release of Youras Ziankovich, …

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Factbox-Why has German spy agency classified far-right AfD as ‘extremist’?

2 May 2025

By Thomas Escritt and Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as “extremist”, enabling it to step up monitoring of the country’s biggest opposition party, which decried the move as a “blow against democracy”. The decision by the Federal Office for the Protection of the …

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Exclusive-UN eyes big overhaul amid funding crisis, internal memo shows

2 May 2025

By Emma Farge and John Shiffman GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations is considering a massive overhaul that would merge major departments and shift resources across the globe, according to an internal memo prepared by senior officials tasked with reforming the world body. The high-level review comes as U.N. agencies scramble to cope with the …

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