A man stands in front of a poster featuring India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party election candidate K. Annamalai. June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Riya Mariyam R |
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- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alliance was winning a majority of seats about halfway through the count in the general election, but the numbers were well short of the landslide predicted in exit polls. Krishn Kaushik joins the Reuters World News podcast from New Delhi where he is monitoring the count.
- Iran-backed Shi'ite armed groups in Iraq have ramped up rocket and missile attacks on Israel in recent weeks, raising concerns in Washington and among some Iranian allies of potential Israeli retaliation and regional escalation should they draw blood.
- Security was tight and access restricted to Beijing's Tiananmen Square on the 35th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown, while Hong Kong also increased policing as activists in Taiwan and elsewhere prepared to mark the date with vigils.
- Nigeria's main labor unions shut down the national grid and disrupted flights across the country as they began an indefinite strike over the government's failure to agree a new minimum wage.
- Climate change made the recent flooding that devastated southern Brazil twice as likely, a team of international scientists said, adding that the heavy rains were also intensified by the natural El Nino phenomenon.
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- President Joe Biden is expected to sign a sweeping new border measure that would allow authorities to quickly deport or send back to Mexico migrants caught crossing the southwest border if illegal entries surpass a certain level, according to two sources with knowledge of the move.
- Attorney General Merrick Garland will take aim at Donald Trump's Republican allies in the House of Representatives, where he will accuse them of peddling false narratives that endanger law enforcement and undermine the Justice Department's integrity.
- Former top US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci strongly denied suppressing the theory that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in China, telling lawmakers he never influenced research on the origins of the virus.
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- "Roaring Kitty" Keith Gill, the stock influencer behind the 2021 meme stock frenzy, may be sitting on a paper profit of tens of millions of dollars on his position in GameStop options, but reaping those gains might not be easy.
- A plunge in China's new housing construction is fueling hopes the battered property sector is finally coming to terms with chronic oversupply, but a clean-up of bad assets is the missing policy piece that keeps Japan-like stagnation fears alive.
- Tesla investor KLP, Norway's largest pension fund, will vote in favor of a shareholder proposal urging the US electric vehicle maker to engage in wage and other labor negotiations as it continues to face industrial action in Sweden.
- Volvo is launching the world's first EV battery passport recording the origins of raw materials, components, recycled content and carbon footprint for its flagship EX90 SUV, which is about to start production, the Swedish automaker told Reuters.
- Johnson & Johnson must pay $260 million to an Oregon woman who said she got mesothelioma, a deadly cancer linked to asbestos exposure, from inhaling the company's talc powder, a jury found.
- Intel launched its next generation Xeon server processors in a bid to regain data center market share and revealed that its Gaudi 3 artificial intelligence accelerator chips would be priced much lower than its rivals' products.
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Gaza's doctors were building a health system. Then came war. |
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Handout photo from November 2022 of Gazan obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr Sireen Al-Attar. Dr Deborah Harrington/Handout via REUTERS |
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Health workers killed in the Gaza war have included more than 50 highly qualified specialists who were seeking to create a healthcare system for a Palestinian state, Reuters found. With each specialist killed, Gaza lost a network of knowledge that will take years to rebuild. |
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Veterans leave on board the Mont St Michel ship en route to Caen in France. June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez |
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Two dozen D-Day veterans were the star passengers of a flotilla which set sail from Portsmouth, England, bound for the beaches of Normandy where 80 years ago this week they fought to liberate France, a turning point in World War Two. |
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