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BIRAO, Central African Republic (AP) — The agony began for Maude Ahmad Fadala shortly after sunset. Her baby was coming. She was in a refugee camp, weakened by typhoid. There were no camp facilities for what was about to happen, and she had no money to travel. She struggled to her feet and started walking. She stopped every few minutes, gripped by pain from contractions, then could go no farther. […]

ISTANBUL (AP) — Far from tango’s birthplace in working-class districts and port areas of Buenos Aires and Montevideo in Argentina and Uruguay, dance enthusiasts in Istanbul have built a close-knit and passionate community. Every night, they gather at milongas — sessions of Argentine ballroom dancing — on both sides of this vast city that bridges Europe and Asia, drawn together by music, movement and the embrace of tango. Turkish locals, […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia attacked Ukraine with a barrage of missiles and drones overnight Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, injuring dozens and trapping others, authorities said. At least four people were killed in Kyiv and 58 people were injured, including three children, Ukraine’s state emergency service said in a statement on Telegram. Residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were damaged in eight of Kyiv’s districts. Attacks were also […]

ŌAMARU, New Zealand (AP) — The small, rural town of Ōamaru, New Zealand, has become an unlikely world capital for the retro futuristic genre of steampunk. Over a span of four days each year, a steampunk festival draws thousands of airship captains, Victorian inventors and make-believe aristocrats as they show off costumes and personas they have spent months or even years creating. The event takes place on a preserved Victorian […]

ŌAMARU, New Zealand (AP) — The woman in the pink frock coat announced herself as steam curled from a strange brass contraption on her back. “I am Lady Sarsaparilla Ovabyte, of the Coventry Ovabytes,” she said. “We are purveyors of fine cordials.” Her companion peered through glasses made from fused-together forks. “Captain Bob McSpoon, inventrepreneur,” he said. On a Victorian-era street in rural Ōamaru, New Zealand, Ovabyte and McSpoon, who […]

By Daniel Flynn KYIV, June 2 (Reuters) – How to stop Russian drones flying undetected across the Black Sea to attack Ukraine’s port city of Odesa? That was the problem facing Ukraine’s military that Charles Maher set out to solve. The former U.S. submarine commander, who founded maritime intelligence and security company BlueShadow, started working with the Ukraine’s defence units to develop a system to control swarms of autonomous naval […]

BANGKOK, June 2 (Reuters) – Cambodia on Tuesday said it informed the United Nations and Thailand that it had launched a compulsory conciliation process under international law aimed at resolving a long-running maritime boundary dispute with Bangkok. The move follows a Thai government decision last month to unilaterally terminate a 2001 agreement with Cambodia that provided a framework for negotiations over the disputed area in the Gulf of Thailand where […]

By Makiko Yamazaki and Miho Uranaka TOKYO, June 2 (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan should lay out a clear path for policy normalisation after a widely expected rate hike this month to stabilise the bond market, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group’s global markets chief, Arihiro Nagata, told Reuters. The call for clearer guidance from Japan’s second-largest banking group comes as the 10-year government bond yield has hit 30-year highs, while […]

By Francesco Canepa and Rob Lang FRANKFURT, June 2 (Reuters) – Only a third of the euro zone’s largest companies have indicated they are raising prices in response to the Iran war, a Reuters analysis of listed corporate earnings commentary shows, suggesting a weak economy is curbing their pricing power. Investors and European Central Bank policymakers have been trying to gauge whether the euro zone is facing another hefty bout […]