Displaced Palestinians sheltering in a school prepare to flee Rafah. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem |
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- Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah, reaching some residential districts. This steps up the offensive in the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering after being displaced by the war.
- Seven months into the war, Israeli troops are back fighting in the north of the Gaza Strip, in areas that were supposed to have been cleared months ago, highlighting growing questions about the government's declared goal of eliminating Hamas.
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- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv in the first visit to Ukraine by a senior US official since Congress passed a long-delayed $61 billion military aid package for the country last month.
- The US and Taiwan navies conducted joint drills in the Pacific in April that, officially, did not take place, four people briefed on the matter said, as the two militaries boost cooperation amid rising Chinese military threats. Gerry Doyle joins the Reuters World News podcast to share insights on the joint exercises.
- China poses a genuine and increasing cyber risk to the United Kingdom, the head of British spy agency GCHQ said, adding that while Russia and Iran represented an immediate threat, Beijing was an epoch-defining challenge.
- Hundreds of university students in the Georgian capital walked out of classes, joining thousands of protesters opposing a bill on "foreign agents", as the prime minister vowed parliament would pass the bill on Tuesday.
- An unknown number of orcas have sunk a sailing yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain's maritime rescue service said, a new attack in what has become a trend in the past four years.
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Drivers chat next to taxis charging at a Shell electric vehicle charging station in Beijing. REUTERS/Florence Lo/File Photo |
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- US President Joe Biden unveiled a bundle of steep tariff increases on an array of Chinese imports including electric vehicles, computer chips and medical products, risking an election-year standoff with Beijing. Listen to Trevor Hunnicutt explain why this matters in an election year.
- The euro has resisted falling to parity with the dollar for now, thanks to a rosier economic backdrop, to the relief of European Central Bank policymakers who could be struggling to detach themselves from the Federal Reserve's monetary policy outlook.
- OPEC stuck to its forecast for relatively strong growth in global oil demand in 2024 and said there was a chance the world economy could do better than expected this year.
- When China's local governments began compiling a "whitelist" of housing projects for loans earlier this year, troubled developers hoped it would open a spigot of credit for a sector that remains a major obstacle to a broad economic revival. Four months later, new funding is only coming by the drip.
- ChatGPT maker OpenAI said it would release a new AI model called GPT-4o, capable of realistic voice conversation and able to interact across text and image, its latest move to stay ahead in a race to dominate the emerging technology.
- Anglo American laid out a strategic review that includes a potential break-up of the company by demerging or selling its steelmaking coal, nickel, diamonds and platinum businesses as it tries to fend off a takeover bid from the world's largest miner BHP Group.
- Patients taking Novo Nordisk's popular Wegovy obesity treatment maintained an average of 10% weight loss after four years on the treatment, the company said. Novo presented the new long-term data at the European Congress on Obesity.
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Trump's attacks on his trial judges trigger widespread calls for violence |
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Trump followers have posted violent comments about New York Justice Arthur Engoron on Trump-aligned websites. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/Pool |
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On a recent Tuesday morning, a visibly frustrated Donald Trump sat through a tense hearing in the first-ever criminal trial of a former American president. During a break, he let rip on his social media platform. New York Justice Juan Merchan, Trump declared on Truth Social, is a "highly conflicted" overseer of a "kangaroo court." Trump's supporters swiftly replied to his post with a blitz of attacks on Merchan. The comments soon turned ugly. Some called for Merchan and other judges hearing cases against Trump to be killed. The April 23 post by Trump and the menacing responses from his followers illustrate the incendiary impact of his angry and incessant broadsides against the judges. |
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The male savannah elephant Doma and the female savannah elephant Kariba engage in greeting behavior at Jafuta Reserve in Zimbabwe. Vesta Eleuteri/Handout via REUTERS |
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For elephants, greetings appear to be a complex affair. A study based on observations of African savannah elephants in the Jafuta Reserve in Zimbabwe provides new insight into the visual, acoustic and tactile gestures they employ in greetings, including how greetings differ depending on factors such as their sex and whether they are looking at each other. |
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