Thursday, 19 February 2026, 16:16 REUTERS Four years after a record drought devastated northern Kenya, failed rains are once again driving starvation, as aid cuts force humanitarian agencies to scale back their operations and feed fewer people. Sean Hogan reports. TURKANA COUNTY, Kenya – In the barren plains of Turkana, 76-year-old grandmother Echakan Amaja survives...
COPENHAGEN, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Sunday “no thanks” to U.S. President Donald Trump’s idea of sending a hospital ship to Greenland, a territory Trump has repeatedly said he wants to take over. Trump said on Saturday on social media that he was working with Louisiana Governor and special...
PARIS, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Activists from anti-billionaire campaign group “Everyone Hates Elon” on Sunday went to the Louvre museum in Paris where they hung a framed photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken by a Reuters photographer on February 19, whilst he sat in the back of a car leaving a police station on the day...
By Phil Stewart and Laura Gottesdiener WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (Reuters) – A new U.S.-military-led task force specializing in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as ‘El Mencho,’ a U.S. defense official told Reuters. The Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel,...
Mexican cartel boss ‘El Mencho’ killed in military raid Mexican officials said Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, commonly known as “El Mencho,” was killed during a military operation that sparked widespread violence across parts of the country. Government sources familiar with the operation told Reuters that cars and buildings were torched in Mexico’s Jalisco state following the...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Feb 20 (Reuters) – At least 50 people were killed and several women and children abducted after armed men attacked a village in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state, a state lawmaker told Reuters on Friday. Hamisu A. Faru, lawmaker representing Bukkuyum South, said the attackers raided Tungan Dutse village from around 5 p.m. on...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — At least 50 people were killed and several women and children abducted after armed men attacked a village in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state, a state lawmaker told Reuters on Friday. Hamisu A. Faru, lawmaker representing Bukkuyum South, said the attackers raided Tungan Dutse village from around 5 p.m. on Thursday until about...
By ReutersCape Verde / London Loggerhead sea turtles nesting in Cape Verde are arriving earlier as Atlantic waters warm, but are breeding less often and producing fewer eggs, according to a 17-year scientific study published in the journal Animals. Researchers tracking the turtles found that rising ocean temperatures appear to be accelerating egg development inside...
MILAN — Italy’s state broadcaster RAI was forced to apologise to the Jewish community on Saturday after an off-air remark advising producers to “avoid” the Israeli crew was accidentally broadcast before coverage of the Four-Man bobsleigh event at the Winter Olympics. Viewers heard “Let’s avoid crew number 21, which is the Israeli one” and then...
BEIRUT, Feb 21 (Reuters) — At least 10 people were killed and 50 wounded in Israeli strikes in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, two security sources said, after the Israeli military said it had targeted Hezbollah sites in the Baalbek area. The strikes on Friday were among the deadliest reported in eastern Lebanon in recent weeks and...
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