Featured News
From helicopters to ads, India's ruling party snaps up bulk of election props
By Shivangi Acharya and Tanvi Mehta NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Campaigning is gathering pace in India's general elections, the world's largest with nearly a billion eligible voters, as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party races ahead of its opponents in ...
India's election officials climb hills, ford rivers to reach voters
By Adnan Abidi and Shivam Patel NONGRIAT, India (Reuters) -India was preparing on Thursday for the world's largest general election, as polling officers clambered up hills, travelled deep into areas riven by violent insurgencies and crossed rivers to ...
Russia accuses Ukraine of shelling medical facilities and of killing medical staff
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused Ukrainian forces of repeatedly shelling medical facilities in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine with Western weapons on Thursday and said the West and the World Health Organization (WHO) had turned a blind eye ...
The last women standing in a Serbian village swallowed by mine
By Marko Djurica and Ivana Sekularac KRIVELJ, Serbia (Reuters) - The women are nurses, school teachers, students and housewives. They span three generations. And they are up for a fight. Nearly two-dozen women are at the centre of a battle to ...
UK Conservative lawmaker suspended over allegations of misusing funds
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's governing Conservative Party has suspended one of its lawmakers while he is investigated over allegations that he misused campaign funds, a spokesperson for the Conservatives' head of party discipline said on ...
Burkina Faso expels three French diplomats for 'subversive activities'
(Reuters) - Burkina Faso's military government has expelled three French diplomats for alleged subversive activities, the foreign ministry said in a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday. The three diplomats, two of whom were listed as political ...
German watchdog approves Novo's acquisition of Cardior Pharmaceuticals
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German cartel office has approved a deal by Denmark's Novo Nordisk to purchase Cardior Pharmaceuticals, the regulator said in a statement on Thursday. The acquisition of Hanover-based Cardior Pharmaceuticals for up to 1.03 ...
Man named Vote will cast ballot for change in South Africa
By James Oatway and Thando Hlophe LILLYDALE, South Africa (Reuters) - When Mariana Ubisi went into labour in her one-room home in rural South Africa, millions of Black citizens were queuing to vote in the election that would bring Nelson Mandela ...
In Serbian village, women fight to escape encroaching mine
By Ivana Sekularac and Marko Djurica KRIVELJ, Serbia (Reuters) - Before dawn, 78-year-old Vukosava Radivojevic prepared breakfast for her husband then walked into her village in eastern Serbia to guard a barricade stopping trucks entering an ...
Reuters' Mohammed Salem wins 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award
By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem won the prestigious 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday for his image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in the Gaza ...