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By Maggie Michael ADRE, Chad (Reuters) – Food aid for more than half a million refugees who have fled from Sudan to Chad will run out next month without extra funding, a World Food Programme official said on Wednesday. “By December, there will be no assistance,” Pierre Honnorat, Chad country director for the U.N. agency, told Reuters. “We are calling for urgent, urgent funding now.” More than 540,000 refugees have […]

By Maggie Michael ADRE, Chad (Reuters) – Food aid for more than half a million refugees who have fled from Sudan to Chad will run out next month without extra funding, a World Food Programme official said on Wednesday. “By December, there will be no assistance,” Pierre Honnorat, Chad country director for the U.N. agency, told Reuters. “We are calling for urgent, urgent funding now.” More than 540,000 refugees have […]

By Supantha Mukherjee and Foo Yun Chee STOCKHOLM/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Meta on Wednesday appealed against “gatekeeper” designations for its Messenger and Marketplace platforms, the first Big Tech company to challenge new European Union rules setting out dos and don’ts for the online services. As part of its latest crackdown on Big Tech, the EU in September picked 22 “gatekeeper” services, run by six of the world’s biggest tech companies, to […]

By Supantha Mukherjee and Foo Yun Chee STOCKHOLM/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Meta on Wednesday appealed against “gatekeeper” designations for its Messenger and Marketplace platforms, the first Big Tech company to challenge new European Union rules setting out dos and don’ts for the online services. As part of its latest crackdown on Big Tech, the EU in September picked 22 “gatekeeper” services, run by six of the world’s biggest tech companies, to […]

By Andrew MacAskill and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday he would sign a new treaty with Rwanda to resurrect his plans to send asylum seekers to the East African country after the Supreme Court rejected an original scheme as unlawful. Some politicians in the governing Conservative Party challenged Sunak to find a way to revive what has been a centrepiece of the government’s […]

By Andrew MacAskill and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday he would sign a new treaty with Rwanda to resurrect his plans to send asylum seekers to the East African country after the Supreme Court rejected an original scheme as unlawful. Some politicians in the governing Conservative Party challenged Sunak to find a way to revive what has been a centrepiece of the government’s […]

By Sudipto Ganguly MUMBAI (Reuters) – India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat in the first World Cup semi-final against New Zealand at the Wankhede Stadium on Wednesday. The venue, where India won their last 50-overs World Cup title, has hosted four day-night contests so far at this tournament with three of those being won by the team batting first. Australia were the only team to […]

By Sudipto Ganguly MUMBAI (Reuters) – India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat in the first World Cup semi-final against New Zealand at the Wankhede Stadium on Wednesday. The venue, where India won their last 50-overs World Cup title, has hosted four day-night contests so far at this tournament with three of those being won by the team batting first. Australia were the only team to […]

By Maggie Michael ADRE, Chad (Reuters) – Food aid for more than half a million refugees who have fled from Sudan to Chad will run out next month without extra funding, a World Food Programme official said on Wednesday. “By December, there will be no assistance,” Pierre Honnorat, Chad country director for the U.N. agency, told Reuters. “We are calling for urgent, urgent funding now.” More than 540,000 refugees have […]