kslmadmin

LE CAIRE, 17 mai (Reuters) – Des frappes israéliennes ont tué au moins quatre personnes dans la bande de Gaza dimanche, a-t-on appris de responsables de santé. Des médecins ont rapporté qu’une frappe israélienne avait tué un Palestinien près d’un poste de police de Khan Younes, dans le sud de l’enclave palestinienne. L’armée israélienne dit avoir tué un combattant qui représentait une menace imminente pour ses soldats opérant dans le […]

THE HAGUE, May 17 (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) denied a report in Israeli media on Sunday that it had issued new arrest warrants for five Israeli political and military officials for alleged crimes against Palestinians. ICC spokesperson Oriane Maillet said in a note to journalists that the report, in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, was not accurate, and the court “denies the issuance of new arrest warrants in the […]

CAIRO, May 17 (Reuters) – Israeli strikes killed at least four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said. Medics said an Israeli strike killed one Palestinian near a police post in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said it killed a militant who posed an immediate threat to forces operating in an area south of the enclave. Separately, Gaza medics said another Israeli […]

By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank, May 17 (Reuters) – The millionaire businessman son of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has won a steering role in his father’s political party Fatah, a party official said on Sunday, as a succession fight looms for control of the embattled Palestinian Authority (PA).  Yasser Abbas won a seat in elections for the Fatah Central Committee, the party’s highest decision-making body, at its first general […]

ATHENS, May 17 (Reuters) – Bulgarians celebrated on Sunday their country’s surprise first win in the Eurovision Song Contest as they prepared to welcome home Dara who triumphed with her catchy, crowd-pleasing, optimistic dance track “Bangaranga”. Prime Minister Rumen Radev took to Facebook to congratulate Dara, who is expected to return to Bulgaria later on Sunday. He said that Bulgaria awaits Europe and the world when Sofia is expected to […]

May 17 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his personal relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump could help attract American investment to Brazil, prevent more tariffs and sanctions and secure respect for Brazilian democracy. “Trump knows I oppose war with Iran, disagree with his intervention in Venezuela and condemn the genocide that is happening in Palestine,” Lula said in an interview with the Washington Post published […]

By David Hood-Nuño and Julio-Cesar Chavez WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) – A Trump administration-backed celebration of U.S. religious heritage on Sunday is highlighting conservative Christian leaders’ ties to the president as critics say the gathering does not reflect the country’s diverse faith landscape.   The nine-hour program, called “Rededicate 250: National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving,” mostly features speakers from two Christian traditions — evangelical Christianity and conservative Catholicism. […]

By Nate Raymond May 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to preserve mail access to the abortion pill mifepristone marked the latest time that the nation’s top judicial body has reined in an even more right-leaning appeals court, one nestled in the American South. The Supreme Court on Thursday put on hold a May 1 ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that had […]

By Suzanne McGee PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 17 (Reuters) – Investors are warning that lofty U.S. stock markets have not yet priced in the risk of rocketing inflation and are vulnerable to a sharp spike in bond yields. Equity markets have been propelled by robust first-quarter earnings and expectations of boosts from artificial intelligence, overshadowing the risk of high energy prices and the lack of a conclusion to the war […]