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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to improving agriculture ties with China after a ministerial meeting, as Canberra cheered progress made toward restoring trade in barley amid a thawing in diplomatic relations. Australia last week said it had reached an agreement with China to resolve their dispute over barley imports which followed Beijing in January resuming purchases of Australian coal after almost three years, and a ramping […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s battling factions both claimed to have made gains on Monday as continued violence cut power and water in the capital, and the U.N. envoy to Sudan said the two sides showed no signs of being willing to negotiate. Fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed at least 185 people and injured more than 1,800, said […]

By Jasper Ward (Reuters) -A Kansas City man was charged with two felonies on Monday in the shooting of a Black teenager who was wounded after walking up to the wrong house when going to pick up his younger twin brothers. Andrew Lester, an 85-year-old white man, was charged with first degree assault and armed criminal action for shooting Ralph Yarl, 16, on the doorstep of his suburban home around […]

By Lisa Richwine and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Hollywood writers voted overwhelmingly in favor of giving union negotiators the power to call a strike, moving a step closer to a production shutdown that would hamper studios and disrupt what viewers see on television. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) on Monday said 97.85% of members who voted supported letting negotiators order a work stoppage if they do not have […]

By Jasper Ward (Reuters) -A Kansas City man was charged with two felonies on Monday in the shooting of a Black teenager who was wounded after walking up to the wrong house when going to pick up his younger twin brothers. Andrew Lester, an 85-year-old white man, was charged with first degree assault and armed criminal action for shooting Ralph Yarl, 16, on the doorstep of his suburban home around […]

By Brendan O’Brien and Tyler Clifford (Reuters) -An Ohio grand jury voted against indicting eight Akron police officers who fatally shot an unarmed Black man last year, the state attorney general said on Monday, as the city prepared for a fresh round of protests against alleged police misconduct. The officers pursued Jayland Walker, 25, on foot after an attempted traffic stop last June and shot him 46 times, including five […]

(Reuters) – Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed by a Moscow court on Monday for 25 years for treason and other offences – which he denies committing – after speaking out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and lobbying for Western sanctions on Moscow. GRAIN * Ukraine said a U.N.-brokered initiative allowing the safe Black Sea export of its grain was in danger of “shutdown” after Russia blocked inspections of participating […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s battling factions both claimed to have made gains on Monday as continued violence cut power and water in the capital, and the U.N. envoy to Sudan said the two sides showed no signs of being willing to negotiate. Fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed at least 185 people and injured more than 1,800, said […]

By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman BOCA CHICA, Texas (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s SpaceX called off the highly anticipated debut launch of its newly combined Starship cruise vessel and Super Heavy rocket in the final minutes of countdown due to a frozen valve, delaying the uncrewed test flight for at least two days.     The two-stage rocketship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 394 feet (120 m) high, was […]