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By Edwin Okoth NANYUKI, Kenya, June 9 (Reuters) – Kenyan police fired tear gas on Tuesday to scatter protesters in the central town of Nanyuki opposing a quarantine centre for Americans exposed to Ebola that the U.S. government has raced to build despite Kenyan court orders barring further work. The proposed 50-bed unit on an air force base has angered many Kenyans, who accuse the United States of offloading the […]

By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK, June 9 (Reuters) – More than 5,500 Myanmar refugees living in camps along Thailand’s border have found jobs since Bangkok eased employment curbs last year, an approach that offers a regional example, a senior U.N. refugee official told Reuters. The step came in response to a sharp decline in global humanitarian funding, in part as U.S. President Donald Trump slashed foreign aid and Thailand battled growing […]

TAIPEI, June 9 (Reuters) – Chinese coast guard ships operating around Taiwan in recent days have been “harassing” commercial shipping by asking them information about their point of origin and destination and claiming jurisdiction, Taiwan’s coast guard said on Tuesday. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, was angered after Japan and the Philippines said last month they would begin formal talks on their maritime boundaries, viewing […]

By Florence Loeve PARIS, June 8 (Reuters) – Alta Ares, a French startup focusing on counter-drone technology, said on Tuesday it had raised €50 million in its second funding round, helped by surging demand for air defence systems to combat the mass-produced drones playing a decisive role in Russia’s war in Ukraine. Alta Ares completed a €2 million funding round in May 2025 and the funds will be used to […]

Cody Bellinger hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the 10th inning as the visiting New York Yankees opened a three-game series against the Cleveland Guardians with a 7-5 victory on Monday. New York loaded the bases with one out in the 10th inning against Shawn Armstrong (1-1) before Bellinger singled to put the Yankees ahead. Yankees closer David Bednar (2-3) struck out the two batters he faced in the ninth, […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — For more than two years, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza and Lebanon have lived in dread of Avichay Adraee’s next social media post. Israel’s Arabic-language military spokesman has been the animated face of its campaigns and the main source of warnings ahead of strikes and major offensives. That has made him one of the most recognizable Israelis in the Arab world and a […]

BENI, Congo (AP) — The memories come flooding back whenever Vianney Kambale Kombi hears the word Ebola. He remembers the pain and fear in his community in the eastern Congo city of Beni during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, history’s second-biggest with more than 3,400 reported cases and over 2,200 deaths. It was stopped with the aid of vaccines. Kombi also remembers the broad skepticism over the disease, attacks on health […]

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will bridge 1,000 years of church history Wednesday, visiting a medieval monastery on a mountaintop that local Catholics consider sacred and then celebrating Mass at Barcelona’s famous Sagrada Familia Basilica. Montserrat, a healthy drive from the city followed by a steep ascent, is dear to many of the Catalan people in northeastern Spain. Annually, 2 million people travel to the complex that includes […]

MALMÖ, Sweden (AP) — Long championed as a leader in adopting digital technology, Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools beginning in the fall for the next academic year as part of a broad, international reversal on the use of screens in classrooms. Since 2023, the Scandinavian country’s center-right coalition government has pursued a policy prioritizing more reading time and less screen time, particularly among preschool students, by […]