Sudan is suffering one of the world's most severe food shortages in years. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig/File Photo
The U.N. World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in Sudan over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to deliver food aid to civilians amid the nation's dire hunger crisis, according to 11 people with knowledge of the probe.
At least nine people were killed in a major Israeli offensive in Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health authorities said. Clashes in the West Bank have risen sharply since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that the war with Russia would eventually end in dialogue, but that Kyiv had to be in a strong position and that he would present a plan to US President Joe Biden and his two potential successors. Follow the latest.
Italian prosecutors are investigating two more crew members from tech tycoon Mike Lynch's yacht, in connection with the vessel's sinking over a week ago. The captain of the yacht declined to respond to prosecutors during questioning.
US election
Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz will campaign together in Georgia, a state that Democrats narrowly won in 2020 and could play a decisive role in this year's election.
More than 200 venture capitalists are supporting Harris' bid for the White House. Correspondent Jeffrey Dastin joins the Reuters World News podcast with insights on what they are hoping for from the next administration.
Donald Trump faced a revised federal indictment accusing him of illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, with prosecutors narrowing their approach after a Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution.
Business & Markets
Traders in the US equity options market are expecting Nvidia's upcoming earnings report to spark a more than $300 billion swing in the shares of the world's most dominant AI chipmaker. Global stocks held near record highs ahead of the release of the report.
US tech companies are pursuing energy assets held by bitcoin miners as they race to secure a shrinking supply of electricity for their rapidly expanding AI and cloud computing data centers. Those data centers are driving the fastest US power demand growth since the start of the millennium.
Apple is tying up with India's Bharti Airtel to offer the telecom firm's premium customers its music and video streaming services for free, giving the tech giant access to thousands of consumers in the world's most populous nation.
US imports of used cooking oil from China are set to hit a record in the months ahead, even as regulatory uncertainty casts doubts over longer-term prospects of a trade that boomed last year, according to market participants.
SAS said it has exited US Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, with the Scandinavian airline's CEO hailing a "new era". In other aviation news, the US workplace safety agency is opening a probe after two workers were killed at a Delta maintenance facility.
A Formosan black bear plays inside an enclosure at the government-run bear shelter Wushikeng Research Center in Taichung, Taiwan. REUTERS/Ann Wang
Taiwanese hunters and conservationists are teaming up to protect Formosan black bears, with only a few hundred estimated still in the wild, by designing new traps which will not amputate limbs if they are accidentally caught in a snare.
Actor Sveva Alviti, who will host the opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival, and director Alberto Barbera. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
Stars galore will light up this year's Venice Film Festival, which opens today, bringing sex, song and soul-searching to the Lido, making up for a low wattage 2023 edition when a strike kept most A-listers away.
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