Law enforcement officers take position before entering the pro-Palestinian protest encampment at UCLA. REUTERS/Mike Blake |
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- Helmeted police muscled their way into a central plaza of the University of California, Los Angeles early today in a move to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest camp attacked the previous night by pro-Israel supporters.
- Escalating campus protests across the country are forcing President Joe Biden to walk a careful line. As students clash with law enforcement and college leadership, Correspondent Andrew Hay joins the Reuters World News podcast to share insights on universities taking a different approach.
- New York prosecutors will ask the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial to impose more fines on the former US president for violating a gag order that prohibits him from talking about witnesses and jurors.
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- Top Israeli ministers will convene to discuss a proposed Gaza truce to free some hostages held by Hamas, as well as prospects for an army sweep of the southern tip of the enclave packed with displaced Palestinians, a government source said. Follow the latest coverage of the war here.
- Floods and landslides across Kenya have killed 181 people since March, with hundreds of thousands forced to leave their homes, as dozens more were killed in neighboring Tanzania and Burundi. Torrential rain and floods have destroyed homes, roads, bridges and other infrastructure across the region.
- A lower turnout so far in India's long general election has rattled Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign managers, calling into question whether his Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies can achieve the landslide victory predicted by opinion polls just one month ago.
- Spurred on by a reclusive billionaire founder, Georgia's ruling party has triggered a showdown with young, anti-Moscow protesters that is growing more tense and violent by the day. Critics say the law is modelled on legislation that the Kremlin has used to crack down on Russia's opposition.
- Russia says attempts to take its capital or interest would be "banditry" and has warned of catastrophic consequences. The country's ability to match a Western asset seizure of its frozen assets has been eroded by dwindling foreign investment, but experts say there are still ways it can strike back.
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Bird flu transmission, in graphics |
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The spread of H5N1 or bird flu to an increasing number of species and its widening geographic reach have raised the risks of humans being infected. The virus has caused serious, sometimes fatal, infections among people and has long been on the list of viruses with pandemic potential. |
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Laszlo Kemencei, 28, plays with his daughter Boroka. REUTERS/Marton Monus |
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Laszlo Kemencei lives as sustainably as possible on his small farm in Hungary. He believes the land is effectively borrowed from his young daughter, so he must preserve it. While there are no statistics on how many families are following a similar lifestyle in Hungary, anecdotal evidence suggests it is a growing trend. |
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