By Jose Luis Gonzalez CIUDAD JUAREZ (Reuters) – Hundreds of commercial trucks waited in an hours-long line on Saturday to cross the border from the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez into El Paso after Texas Governor Gregg Abbott ordered state troopers to s…
Imran Khan, cricket star turned Pakistan premier, is ousted
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD -Imran Khan was ousted as Pakistan’s prime minister on Sunday after a no-confidence vote in parliament, bringing to a premature end a tenure marked by a deteriorating economy and signs that he had lost the trust of the powerfu…
Israeli forces kill Palestinian militant in West Bank clash
By Ali Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian militant in the occupied West Bank on Saturday during a raid in the hometown of a gunman who had carried out a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv, Israeli and Palestinian …
Iran imposes sanctions on 24 Americans as nuclear talks stall
DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran said on Saturday it had imposed sanctions on 24 more Americans, including former Army Chief of Staff George Casey and former President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, as months of talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal have st…
Residents return to a charred and changed Bucha in Ukraine
By Mari Saito BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Before the war in Ukraine, Bohdan Zubchuk’s job as a community police officer involved patrolling the quiet streets of Bucha outside Kyiv and dealing with petty crime, while handling minor complaints from reside…
Exclusive-Sri Lanka to seek $3 billion to stave off crisis -finance minister
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka will need about $3 billion in external assistance over the next six months to help restore supplies of essential items including fuel and medicine, Finance Minister Ali Sabry told Re…
Shanghai carries out more COVID tests as food supply frustrations rise
(Refiles to fix garble in headline) SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Shanghai carried out another round of mass COVID-19 testing on Saturday, this time testing residents at least twice in a single day, as a city official in China’s financial hub acknowledged short…
Space station’s first all-private astronaut team welcomed aboard orbiting platform
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The first all-private team of astronauts ever launched to the International Space Station (ISS) were welcomed aboard the orbiting research platform on Saturday to begin a weeklong science mission hailed as a milestone in comm…
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan ousted in no-confidence vote in parliament
By Asif Shahzad and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted on Sunday when he lost a vote of confidence in parliament, after being deserted by coalition partners who blame him for a crumbling economy and fa…
Zelenskiy braces for ‘hard battle,’ UK’s Johnson visits with aid
By Elizabeth Piper KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine is ready for a tough battle with Russian forces amassing in the east of the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered fresh financial and milita…