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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A woman accused of enslaving a Yazidi teenager in Syria would agree to wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet and undergo religious counseling if she were freed on bail, her lawyer told a court Friday. Zeinab Ahmad, 31, continued an application for bail in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on two slavery charges. Her application was heard on Thursday and Friday. It will continue on June 15 […]

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – After five decades of trying, astronomers have finally discovered the wind emanating from the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, though it turns out it is more of a gentle breeze than a hurricane. Using data from the Chile-based ALMA telescope and NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, the researchers viewed the cosmic neighborhood around the black hole […]

June 5 (Reuters) – New Zealand will directly raise China’s “entirely inappropriate” ban on four lawmakers who visited Taiwan with Beijing, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Friday. Three backbenchers from New Zealand’s centre-right coalition, Laura McClure, David Wilson and Maureen Pugh, along with Duncan Webb from the Labour party, visited Taipei last month for five days. The Chinese embassy informed lawmakers the group had been banned from entering China, […]

By Alexander Cornwell, Rami Ayyub and Steve Holland JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu has long portrayed himself to the Israeli public as being uniquely adept in dealing with Donald Trump, capable of winning and sustaining the U.S. president’s backing. But an acrimonious phone call this week where the president called the prime minister “fucking crazy”, first leaked to the media and later publicly confirmed by Trump himself, laid […]

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, June 5 (Reuters) – The Middle East conflict is pushing millions of people closer to hunger, as rising fuel and transport costs drive up food prices while funding shortfalls force aid agencies to scale back assistance, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Friday.      Joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February triggered a regional conflict stretching across the Gulf and into Lebanon, disrupting key shipping […]

BUCHAREST, June 5 (Reuters) – A marine drone of the type used in the war in neighbouring Ukraine self-detonated on Friday in Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta near an oil terminal, without causing any casualties, the defence ministry said. The port was being evacuated, residents along Romania’s Black Sea coast were warned to take cover, and two helicopters were surveying the area for any further drones, deputy Interior Minister […]

WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – A majority of the U.S. Senate on Friday voted to pass legislation providing an additional $70 billion for migrant law-enforcement operations, including President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation program. The bill still must be voted upon by the House of Representatives. (Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Toby Chopra) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, June 5 (Reuters) – The United Nations on Friday said it is doubling the amount of money it says it needs to help Lebanon meet surging humanitarian needs, as the war enters its fourth month. Lebanon was drawn into the wider regional war in early March when the Tehran-backed Hezbollah militia fired rockets at Israel in solidarity with Iran, which was under U.S.-Israeli attack, prompting […]

By Amanda Cooper LONDON, June 5 (Reuters) – The Japanese yen tested the 160-per-dollar barrier on Friday, drawing sharp official warnings, as the dollar held firm ahead of key U.S. employment data and Middle East tensions underpinned safe-haven demand. Peace talks between the U.S. and Iran are at a stalemate, and a reignition of hostilities this week has kept oil above $90 a barrel, raising risks to global growth. The […]