By Guy Faulconbridge and Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) – Meghan Markle’s father appealed to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth on Monday to intercede to end his estrangement from his daughter, the wife of Prince Harry. The former U.S. actress, now the Duchess of Sussex, married Harry, the queen’s grandson and sixth in line to the British throne, […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The United Nations and the Palestinian Authority on Monday appealed for $350 million in humanitarian relief for Palestinians next year, saying that they needed more but had to be realistic in the face of “record-low” funding. The 2019 Humanitarian Response Plan outlined 203 projects to be carried out by 88 different groups, […]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – The Nigerian military has lifted its suspension of activities by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in the northeast of Nigeria, it said in a statement on Friday. The military made the announcement in an emailed statement, hours after it imposed the suspension and accused UNICEF staff of training […]
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – An estimated two million Venezuelans could join the ranks of migrants and refugees next year, swelling the total to 5.3 million as the country’s meltdown continues, the United Nations said on Friday. About 5,000 Venezuelans flee their homeland daily, down from a peak of 13,000 in August, said Eduardo […]
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German parliament has approved a third gender option on official documents for “intersex” people who do not identify as either male or female and may be born with untypical sexual anatomy. The German government in August voted to introduce the third category of “various”, alongside male and female, on birth certificates […]
GENEVA (Reuters) – The head of the U.N. agency for HIV and AIDS is stepping down in June, six months before his term ends, after an independent panel said that his “defective leadership” tolerated “a culture of harassment, including sexual harassment, bullying, and abuse of power”. Michel Sidibe announced the decision on Thursday at the […]
By Cooper Inveen FREETOWN (Reuters) – Seven-year-old Carlos Kamara needs urgent surgery on a collapsed lung after he swallowed a toy whistle. Instead, all he can do is lie in pain in a half-empty hospital ward waiting to be seen. A doctors’ strike in Sierra Leone has paralyzed an already threadbare health system in one […]
By Liamar Ramos and Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) – As Venezuela’s hyperinflation and chronic medicine shortages leave HIV patients with little hope of obtaining antiretroviral drugs, many are now relying on the leaves of a tropical tree known as the guasimo. For each dose, patients use around 50 leaves from the tree, which is often […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to advance a resolution to end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s civil war, setting the stage for debate and a later vote in the chamber. President Donald Trump’s administration had urged lawmakers to back continued military support for the Saudi-led coalition. But […]
