Town Hall News

By Mahamat Ramadane and Zohra Bensemra KOUFROUN, Chad (Reuters) – There used to be one family in Fanna Hamit’s compound, now there are 11 families struggling to get by selling roasted crickets after she took in relatives fleeing the conflict in Sudan. They are among 90,000 people who have escaped to Chad since fighting broke out in Sudan in mid-April – a major extra burden on one of the world’s […]

By Nyasha Chingono DOMBOSHAVA, Zimbabwe (Reuters) – Bridget Magasu is the first to arrive for the training session, clutching a rugby ball while she waits for other members of her all-female rugby team to arrive. Usually a sport reserved for the affluent suburbs of Zimbabwe’s major cities, rugby is making inroads in the countryside, where it offers a release from the woes of poverty, early marriage and unemployment which have […]

By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s top wrestlers were talked out of their plans to toss their medals into the river Ganges on Tuesday as part of their ongoing demand to arrest their federation chief over sexual harassment allegations. The athletes had been camping in New Delhi since April 23 demanding action against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who has denied allegations of […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Kosovo’s tennis federation has accused Serbia’s Novak Djokovic of aggravating an already tense situation after the world number three wrote that Kosovo was “the heart of Serbia” on a camera lens following his first-round win at the French Open. Some 30 NATO peacekeeping soldiers were injured on Monday in clashes with Serb protesters in the northern Kosovo town of Zvecan, where Djokovic’s father grew up. Serbs, who […]

By Fatos Bytyci ZVECAN, Kosovo (Reuters) – NATO troops secured a town hall in Kosovo’s Zvecan and the alliance said on Tuesday it would send more soldiers to the region, a day after 30 NATO soldiers and 52 protesters were hurt in clashes and the EU and U.S. urged a de-escalation of the violence. Unrest in the region has intensified since ethnic Albanian mayors took office in northern Kosovo’s Serb-majority […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Short sellers in shares of Nvidia Corp. were down $4.1 billion in mark-to-market losses over the past three trading sessions, financial data firm S3 Partners said Tuesday. The chipmaker after the close last Wednesday released its quarterly results and forecast second-quarter revenue more than 50% above Wall Street estimates. Including Tuesday’s gains, Nvidia’s shares are up about 35% since Wednesday and about 180% for the year […]

ROVAJARVI, Finland (Reuters) – NATO countries are in the middle of Arctic military manoeuvres, vowing on Tuesday to defend their newest member, Finland, which is hosting its first joint NATO exercise since becoming the 31st member of the Western alliance in April. The addition of Finland doubles the length of the border NATO shares with Russia, which launched a large-scale invasion of another neighbour, Ukraine, in February last year. Nearly […]

By Kiana Wilburg GEORGETOWN (Reuters) – A 15-year-old girl who is accused of having started a fire at a school dormitory in Guyana last week was charged with 19 murders on Monday. The fire killed 18 mostly Indigenous girls and one five-year-old boy in the building in the central city of Mahdia. The girl started the fire after her phone was confiscated, police said. The girl is being held in […]

KYIV (Reuters) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday it had recorded 1,004 attacks on healthcare in Ukraine during the Russian invasion, the highest number recorded by the organisation in any conflict. “The 1,004 WHO-verified attacks over the past 15 months of full-scale war have claimed at least 101 lives, including both health workers and patients, and injured many more,” it said in an emailed statement. Russia sent […]