A view of the area around Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital, April 1, 2024. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas |
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- Israeli forces have withdrawn from Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after a two-week operation, the Israeli military said, leaving behind a wasteland of destroyed buildings and Palestinian bodies scattered in the dirt of the complex.
- Turks dealt President Tayyip Erdogan and his party their biggest electoral blow in a nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as the president's chief rival. Who is Ekrem Imamoglu?
- Iran tipped off Russia about the possibility of a major "terrorist operation" on its soil ahead of the concert hall massacre near Moscow last month, three sources familiar with the matter said.
- The mysterious "Havana syndrome" ailment that has afflicted US diplomats and spies across the world may be linked to energy weapons wielded by members of a Russian military intelligence sabotage unit, the Insider media group reported.
- Delhi chief minister and key opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal has been sent to jail until April 15 in a liquor graft case, local media reported, less than three weeks before the country begins voting in national elections.
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- With efforts underway to clean up steel debris from the collapsed bridge in Baltimore's harbor, Maryland Governor Wes Moore urged Republicans to work with Democrats to approve the federal funding needed for rebuilding the bridge.
- A federal judge overseeing the criminal case that accuses Donald Trump of mishandling classified documents has signaled an openness to the former US president's defense claims, in a sign that prosecutors might face a difficult road ahead.
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- The ranks of would-be Tesla buyers in the United States are shrinking, according to a survey by market intelligence firm Caliber, which attributed the drop in part to CEO Elon Musk's polarizing persona.
- Microsoft will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the US tech giant said, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.
- Energy companies from Argentina and Brazil have begun talks on reversing the southerly flow of a Bolivian natural gas pipeline network that connects the three countries as a regional gas deficit could force Brazil to pay up for alternative supplies of the fuel.
- China's $18.6 trillion economy has skirted some near-term downside risks as suggested by recent indicators, analysts said, buying officials more time to convince investors they can fire up a new growth engine for 2024 and the years ahead.
- China has criticized the tightening of US rules on semiconductor exports, saying they have created more hurdles to trade and more uncertainty in the chip industry.
- Russia's Baltika Breweries has sued four Carlsberg subsidiaries for damages amounting to $902.19 million, Russian court filings showed, as the two parties fight over the future of Russia's largest brewer.
- An unusually warm winter in Canada has delayed the opening of a 250-mile ice road that is rebuilt every year as the main conduit for Rio Tinto, Burgundy Mines, and De Beers to access their diamond mines in the remote Arctic region.
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Two Black cadets and the struggle for diversity at an elite US military institution |
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Tusajigwe Owens poses for a portrait in front of an F-15 fighter jet at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt |
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Reuters was granted access to the Air Force Academy for the most sustained reporting on the facility since the early 2000s. Journalists visited the campus in Colorado Springs a dozen times over the course of an academic year, interviewing Tusajigwe Owens and a fellow African American freshman, Marcus Berrette, as well as eight members of the institution's leadership team in the presence of an academy spokesman. Their responses on matters of race were complex. Reuters also spoke to two Black men who entered the academy in 2006 and did not graduate with their class. |
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Muslims look at the sighting of the crescent moon that marks the start of the holy month of Ramadan on Sea Point promenade in Cape Town. March 11. REUTERS/Esa Alexander |
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