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Italy impounds migrant charity ship after multiple rescues
By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Italian authorities have impounded a vessel operated by a Spanish charity, the group said on Thursday, after it carried out multiple rescues of migrants stranded in t...
Oct 05, 2023
Drone attack on Homs military college causes large number of casualties – Syrian state TV
DUBAI (Reuters) - A drone attack on a military college in Syria's Homs province caused a large number of casualties, Syrian state TV reported on Thursday. (Reporting by Clauda Tanios; Editing by Jon B...
Oct 05, 2023
Mauritius Supreme Court decriminalises same-sex relations
By Villen Anganan PORT-LOUIS (Reuters) - The Supreme Court of Mauritius has struck out a colonial-era law criminalising same-sex relations, bucking a trend seen elsewhere in Africa where laws cracking...
Oct 05, 2023
Scotland OKs extradition of US rape suspect accused of faking own death
LONDON (Reuters) - The Scottish government said on Thursday it had approved the extradition to the United States of an American man accused of rape who allegedly faked his own death. U.S. prosecutors ...
Oct 05, 2023
UN struggling to reach 18 million people in need in war-torn Sudan
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Thursday it was struggling to reach 18 million people in need in Sudan to fend off a humanitarian disaster, hampered by insecurity, interference from the ...
Oct 05, 2023
Nobel winner Fosse ‘overwhelmed, somewhat frightened’ by literature award
OSLO (Reuters) - Winning the Nobel prize for literature is both overwhelming and scary, Norwegian playwright and novelist Jon Fosse told Reuters following the announcement on Thursday. "I am overwhelm...
Oct 05, 2023
Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable," the award-giving body said ...
Oct 05, 2023
Libya flood disaster damaged ancient city but revealed new remains
By Ayman al-Warfali CYRENE, Libya (Reuters) - The flooding that killed thousands in Libya's Derna last month damaged the ruins at the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in the mountains nearby, but it also ...
Oct 05, 2023
Thai opposition proposes amnesty covering 2 decades of political offences
By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's progressive opposition party on Thursday filed a draft bill seeking amnesty for potentially thousands of people charged with ...
Oct 05, 2023
Cyprus court adjourns rape case with Israeli defendants
PARALIMNI, Cyprus (Reuters) - A Cyprus court on Thursday adjourned the trial of five Israelis charged with raping a British woman pending the submission of material evidence by prosecutors. Police arr...
Oct 05, 2023
