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By Pavel Polityuk and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Drones hit several buildings in Moscow on Tuesday causing minor damage and forcing some people to evacuate their homes, Russian officials said, while Russia launched another wave of flying bombs on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv killing one person. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the apparent attack on Moscow, which one pro-Kremlin television commentator said, without citing sources, involved […]

By Mahamat Ramadane and Zohra Bensemra KOUFROUN, Chad (Reuters) – There used to be one family in Fanna Hamit’s compound, now there are 11 families struggling to get by selling roasted crickets after she took in relatives fleeing the conflict in Sudan. They are among 90,000 people who have escaped to Chad since fighting broke out in Sudan in mid-April – a major extra burden on one of the world’s […]

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved a law to stop the stealing of human organs and tissues, the health minister said on Tuesday, in a nation where women have been reportedly duped into unnecessary surgeries. Local media have in recent years reported cases of women recruited for domestic work in the Middle East being conned into medical procedures after which their kidneys are sold in global trafficking […]

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved a law to stop the stealing of human organs and tissues, the health minister said on Tuesday, in a nation where women have been reportedly duped into unnecessary surgeries. Local media have in recent years reported cases of women recruited for domestic work in the Middle East being conned into medical procedures after which their kidneys are sold in global trafficking […]

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved a law to stop the stealing of human organs and tissues, the health minister said on Tuesday, in a nation where women have been reportedly duped into unnecessary surgeries. Local media have in recent years reported cases of women recruited for domestic work in the Middle East being conned into medical procedures after which their kidneys are sold in global trafficking […]

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved a law to stop the stealing of human organs and tissues, the health minister said on Tuesday, in a nation where women have been reportedly duped into unnecessary surgeries. Local media have in recent years reported cases of women recruited for domestic work in the Middle East being conned into medical procedures after which their kidneys are sold in global trafficking […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – A private jet used by Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk has arrived in Beijing, according to a Reuters witness.     Musk is expected to meet senior Chinese officials and visit Tesla’s Shanghai plant, sources have said, in what would be his first trip to China in three years. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Musk had arrived in China.  Musk’s private […]

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) -A Japanese court ruled on Tuesday that not allowing same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, a decision activists welcomed as a step towards marriage equality in the only Group of Seven nation with no legal protection for same-sex unions. The ruling by the Nagoya District Court was the second to find a ban against same-sex marriage unconstitutional, out of four cases on the issue over the past […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine launched one of its biggest ever drone attacks on Moscow on Tuesday though the defence ministry said all of them were destroyed by air defence systems. The attack came just weeks after the Kremlin was hit in a drone strike that Russia blamed on Ukraine. Here is what we know so far: * Russia’s defence ministry said that Ukraine was behind thedrone attack on Moscow. It […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine launched one of its biggest ever drone attacks on Moscow on Tuesday though the defence ministry said all of them were destroyed by air defence systems. The attack came just weeks after the Kremlin was hit in a drone strike that Russia blamed on Ukraine. Here is what we know so far: * Russia’s defence ministry said that Ukraine was behind thedrone attack on Moscow. It […]