LONDON (Reuters) -Lorries and holiday motorists heading to France from Britain were on Saturday facing long delays due to a shortage of ferries at the Port of Dover, while airport travellers have also been warned to expect queues. Many schools in Brita…
Red Cross trying again to escort evacuation convoy out of Ukraine’s Mariupol
By James Mackenzie ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) – The Red Cross was renewing efforts to evacuate civilians in a convoy from the besieged port of Mariupol on Saturday as Russian forces looked to be regrouping for fresh attacks in southeast Ukraine. E…
Shanghai separates COVID-positive children from parents in virus fight
By Brenda Goh and Engen Tham SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her 2-1/2-year-old daughter to a Shanghai hospital with a fever on March 26. Three days later, Zhao was begging health authorities not t…
Pope implicitly criticises Putin on invasion, considers Kyiv trip
By Philip Pullella VALLETTA (Reuters) -Pope Francis said on Saturday he was considering a trip to Kyiv and implicitly criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin over the invasion of Ukraine, saying a “potentate” was fomenting conflict for nationalist …
London Met Police chief Cressida Dick to leave post on April 10
LONDON (Reuters) – London police chief Cressida Dick will leave her post on April 10, the office of London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Saturday. Dick resigned in February after Khan told her he was not satisfied she could root out the racism, sexism and o…
Sri Lanka imposes curfew after president declares state of emergency
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka’s government imposed a weekend curfew on Saturday, even as hundreds of lawyers urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to revoke a state of emergency introduced following unrest over fuel and other shortages…
French oppose Macron’s proposed later retirement, poll shows as election looms
(Reuters) – A large majority of French oppose raising the legal retirement age, an opinion poll published by Les Echos newspaper showed, which could be an issue for President Emmanuel Macron, who has made that a key proposal as he seeks re-election thi…
U.S. investigators find evidence Russian oligarchs trying to evade sanctions -official
By Luc Cohen and Sarah N. Lynch NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors have found evidence that Russian oligarchs are trying to evade sanctions put in place to pressure Moscow to stop its invasion of Ukraine, the head of a new Justice Department task for…
No new trial for Ghislaine Maxwell despite juror’s false statement
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday lost her bid to overturn her U.S. sex trafficking conviction, even after a juror acknowledged having falsely stated before the trial that he had not been sexually abused. U.S. Circuit Judge A…
Will Smith resigns from film academy, says he’s ‘heartbroken’
By Lisa Richwine (Reuters) -Actor Will Smith has resigned from Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, saying on Friday that his slapping of presenter Chris Rock on stage at this year’s Oscars ceremony was “shocking, painful and inexcu…