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UK’s data watchdog calls for end to digital ‘strip search’ of rape victims
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's data protection regulator called on Tuesday for police and prosecutors to stop treating rape victims as suspects and end excessive scrutiny of their personal information w...
May 31, 2022
Factbox: Lebanon’s veteran parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim politician Nabih Berri was reelected parliament speaker on Tuesday, extending his tenure in a post he has held since 1992. Here is some background on his car...
May 31, 2022
Lebanese parliament re-elects Nabih Berri as speaker
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's new legislature narrowly elected veteran Shi'ite Muslim politician Nabih Berri for a seventh term as speaker of parliament in its first session on Tuesday. Berri, 84, won ...
May 31, 2022
UK regulator probes Royal Mail’s failure to meet delivery targets
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's communications regulator, Ofcom, said on Tuesday it was investigating Royal Mail's failure to meet its delivery targets across 2021-22, with its probe set to look into the...
May 31, 2022
Sri Lanka appeals for farmers to plant more rice as food shortage looms
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka wants farmers to plant more rice as part of plans to avert a severe food shortage, a top official said on Tuesday, as experts warned of a 50% drop in...
May 31, 2022
Ukrainian court sentences two Russian soldiers to jail for war crimes
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -A Ukrainian court sentenced two captured Russian soldiers to 11 and a half years in jail on Tuesday for shelling a town in eastern Ukraine, the second war crimes verd...
May 31, 2022
Russia says it downed Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet in Mykolaiv region
(Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Tuesday that its forces had downed a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet in Ukraine's Mykolaiv region and bombed a radar station and two ammunition depots in east...
May 31, 2022
Senior Ukraine official says EU sanctions on Russia still ‘not enough’
By Christina and Thykjaer MADRID (Reuters) -The latest European Union sanctions on Russia, which ban most imports of its oil, are "not enough" and the pace of sanctions so far has been too slow, a sen...
May 31, 2022
‘Best we could get’: EU bows to Hungarian demands to agree Russian oil ban
By John Chalmers and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders handed Hungary concessions to agree an oil embargo on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, sealing a deal in the wee...
May 31, 2022
U.S. and Saudi ministers discuss efforts to prolong Yemen truce
(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud have held a call to discuss Saudi Arabia's efforts to prolong a truce in Yemen, the U.S. ...
May 31, 2022
