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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris looks on during a roundtable on criminal justice in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S. April 25, 2024.

VP Harris visits Florida as abortion ban limits southern women's options

Nandita Bose |Updated 15 minutes ago |3 min read

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visits Florida on Wednesday to denounce the state's six-week abortion ban that takes effect on May 1, and will accuse Republican opponent Donald Trump of being responsible ...

Local residents look at damage at the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine April 30, 2024.

Russian guided bombs kill two in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, governor says

Reuters |Updated 25 minutes ago |1 min read

KYIV (Reuters) - Russia attacked the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine with guided bombs on Wednesday, killing at least two people and wounding two others, the regional governor said. The two people were killed when a car was struck in the ...

Police are looking to identify a man as a 'person of interest' after a fire that destroyed Edmonton's historic Hangar 11 on Apr. 22, 2024. Supplied Photo/Edmonton Police Service

Edmonton police seek 'person of interest' after World War Two-era Hangar 11 fire

Postmedia News · Postmedia News |Updated 27 minutes ago |2 min read Gallery Premium content

Edmonton city police are seeking a ‘person of interest’ after the city’s historic Hangar 11 was razed in a suspicious fire last week. Police almost immediately deemed the blaze suspicious after it incinerated the Second World War-era building at ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reacts, as he speaks to the press in front of a truck with humanitarian aid bound for Gaza at the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization in Amman, Jordan, April 30, 2024.

Hamas official says Blinken ceasefire comments are attempt to pressure the group

Reuters |Updated 35 minutes ago |1 min read

CAIRO (Reuters) - Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said on Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is blaming the delay of a Gaza ceasefire agreement on the Palestinian group unfairly. Blinken, meeting Israeli leaders to discuss ...

Counter-protesters attempt to move a barricade amidst clashes with protesters in support of Palestinians in Gaza at an encampment on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 1, 2024.

Clashes erupt on UCLA campus between pro-Palestinian supporters and counter-protesters

Reuters |Updated 5 minutes ago |1 min read

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Violent clashes erupted on Wednesday on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) between pro-Palestinian protesters and a group of counter-demonstrators, according to live video coverage provided by a ...

Drag performer Ilker Yazici, 23, whose stage name is Miss Putka, poses during the shooting of a sequence of a TV series in Istanbul, Turkey, July 25, 2023. Ilker was in secondary school when he discovered he was gay. There he met LGBT advocacy groups and joined street protests in Turkey's capital Ankara to defend LGBT rights, carrying rainbow flags. "At first I struggled with myself a lot," he said. "You grow up in the Middle East. It is not easy. I felt like I was the only one, just like most LGBT people feel." Inspired by "RuPaul's Drag Race" series on Netflix, he sees drag performance as an act of self-expression rather than just entertainment. "Drag is a political act. The audience probably look at me and think, 'What is this freak doing?' I'm getting them used to seeing something they are not used to seeing." 

For Turkish performer, drag is a political act

Burcu Karakas, Dilara Senkaya |Updated 55 minutes ago |3 min read

By Dilara Senkaya and Burcu Karakas ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Ilker Yazici - stage name Miss Putka - was in secondary school when he discovered he was gay. There he met LGBT advocacy groups and joined street protests in Turkey's capital Ankara to ...

Simon Harris, who was at the time Ireland's justice minister and is now prime minister, attends the State Funeral of Ireland's former Prime Minister (Taoiseach) John Bruton, in Dunboyne, Ireland, February 10, 2024. Julien Behal/Pool via

Irish police start to dismantle Dublin's migrant ‘tent city’

Padraic Halpin |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish police started dismantling about 200 tents housing asylum seekers in Dublin early on Wednesday, tackling what has become a focal point for heated debate around migration. The government said police and ...

A Ukrainian serviceman of 93rd brigade camouflages a 2S1 Gvozdika self propelled howitzer at a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine February 22, 2024.

Ukrainian forces near besieged Chasiv Yar say they badly need ammunition

Volodymyr Pavlov |Updated 1 hour ago |3 min read

By Volodymyr Pavlov NEAR CHASIV YAR, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces defending the strategic eastern stronghold of Chasiv Yar say they are still waiting for fresh ammunition after the United States approved a major military aid package, amid ...

A Palestinian boy inspects the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 1, 2024.

34,568 Palestinians killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, Gaza health ministry says

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

DUBAI (Reuters) - At least 34,568 Palestinians have been killed and 77,765 wounded in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. (Reporting by Jana Choukeir; Editing by Alison ...

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UK's Smith+Nephew retains annual forecasts despite Q1 revenue miss

Reuters |Updated 5 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - British medical equipment maker Smith+Nephew retained its annual revenue and profit forecasts on Wednesday, despite marginally missing market expectations for first-quarter revenue due to a softness in its advanced wound management ...

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