Palestinians holding Eid al-Fitr prayers by the ruins of al-Farouk mosque, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. April 10, 2024. REUTERS/Shadi Tabatibi |
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- Millions of Muslims around the world are observing Eid. But few in Gaza can take solace from this special time for Muslims. After six months of war, their focus is on surviving Israeli air strikes, shelling, a ground offensive and a humanitarian crisis.
- A year into Sudan's civil war, Iranian-made armed drones have helped the army turn the tide of the conflict, a senior army source told Reuters. Aidan Lewis joins the Reuters World News podcast from Cairo to discuss the conflict.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping told former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou that outside inference could not stop the "family reunion" between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and that there are no issues that cannot be discussed.
- The deaths of Kenyan elephants, shot by licensed hunters near the border with Tanzania, have triggered a call by conservationists and Kenyan officials for its neighbor to restrict trophy hunters to its heartland.
- British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Rwandan President Paul Kagame are looking forward to the first flights under Britain's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda departing in the spring, a readout of their meeting said.
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- The New York criminal charges against Donald Trump for allegedly covering up hush-money payments to a porn star are serious in the eyes of a firm majority of voters, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
- US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will showcase a strong and growing partnership during a White House state visit focused on joint defense cooperation to deter an aggressive China.
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China's national flag seen in front of cranes on a construction site. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon |
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- Fitch cut its outlook on China's sovereign credit rating to negative citing risks to public finances as the economy faces increasing uncertainty in its shift to new growth models. Here's what analysts are saying about the downgrade.
- As Federal Reserve officials last year started steering the world towards possible interest rate cuts in 2024, they took heart in data showing inflation over many months had collapsed to the US central bank's 2% target, evidence their policies were curbing a still too-hot economy.
- Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma has penned a lengthy memo to employees that expresses support for the internet giant's restructuring efforts, a rare move from the billionaire after spending the last few years out of the spotlight.
- Chinese automakers and shippers are ordering a record number of car-carrying vessels to support a boom in EV exports, data showed, putting China on course to amass the world's fourth-largest fleet by 2028.
- Amtrak Joe gets to talk about his favorite thing in meetings with Japan's Fumio Kishida. So, is the long talked about Japanese Bullet Train coming to Texas? Trevor Hunnicutt explains on the Reuters World News podcast.
- Independent browser companies in the European Union are seeing a spike in users in the first month after EU legislation forced Google, Microsoft, and Apple to make it easier for users to switch to rivals, according to data provided to Reuters by six companies.
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The losing battle against Greece's tumbling birthrate |
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90-year-old friends (left to right), Arabatzidou Lambrini, Arvanitidou Sofia and Gavriilidou Fotini in Petrota, Greece, March 29, 2024. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki |
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Army sergeant Christos Giannakidis was planning to have a second child when Greece's debt crisis exploded last decade, straining his finances and erasing hope of extending the family. One son is expensive enough, he says, especially the cost of ferrying him around his remote corner of northeastern Greece where the number of children has plummeted in recent years. As much of Europe struggles with tumbling birthrates that experts say threaten long-term economic wellbeing, Greece is a stark example of how hard it will be to reverse the trend. |
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Peruvian Marcelino "Mashico" Abad smiles while celebrating his 124th birthday. April 5, 2024. Pension 65/Handout via REUTERS |
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Peru's Andean mountains may hold the secret to longevity and the world's oldest ever person, if a new claim by state officials of a 124-year-old man born in 1900 are proven to be true. The country's government has claimed that local resident Marcelino Abad from the central Peruvian region of Huanuco is 124, which would make him by a distance the oldest living person and even top the oldest ever independently verified human. |
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