Web Notifications

SaltWire.com would like to send you notifications for breaking news alerts.

Activate notifications?

SaltWire

Russian war correspondent for Izvestia killed in Ukraine

Reuters |Updated 8 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - Semyon Eremin, a war correspondent for the Russian daily Izvestia, was killed on Friday in a drone attack in southeastern Ukraine, the daily said. Izvestia said Eremin, 42, died of wounds suffered when a drone made a second pass over ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian speaks next to his Sri Lankan counterpart Ali Sabry following a bilateral meeting during his visit in Colombo, Sri Lanka February 20,2024.

Iran says it will respond at 'maximum level' if Israel acts against its interests

Reuters |Updated 28 minutes ago |1 min read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Friday that Iran will respond at an immediate and "maximum level" if Israel acts against its interests. "If Israel wants to do another adventurism and acts against ...

The Pentagon building is seen in Arlington, Virginia, U.S, April 6, 2023.

US military strategy tested as Iran-Israel warfare comes out of shadows

Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart |Updated 29 minutes ago |4 min read

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military's success helping Israel stop a massive wave of Iranian missiles and drones last weekend might suggest Washington is well prepared militarily for whatever comes next as Iran ...

SaltWire

Five high school students wounded in Maryland shooting

Daniel Trotta |Updated 49 minutes ago |2 min read

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - Gunfire broke out at a park in Greenbelt, Maryland, where hundreds of high school students had gathered while skipping school on Friday, wounding five males aged 16 to 18, police said. One victim was in critical ...

SaltWire

Huge blast at military base used by Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, army sources say

Reuters |Updated 8 minutes ago |1 min read

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A huge blast rocked a military base used by Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) to the south of Baghdad late on Friday, army sources told Reuters. (Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Chris Reese)

SaltWire

North Korea conducts cruise missile warhead test on Friday, KCNA says

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea conducted a cruise missile warhead test and test launch of its new anti-aircraft missile in the West Sea of Korea on Friday, the North's KCNA news agency said on Saturday. North Korea had conducted a power test of a ...

St. John's activist and clergy abuse victim Gemma Hickey (third from left) in Italy with fellow victims and allies on a pilgrimage from Montefiascone to St. Peter's Square in the fall of 2023. The group called on the Vatican to implement a zero-tolerence law for sexual abuse by church officials. CONTRIBUTED

'We’re a wounded province and it delays us all from healing': Compensation process delays for N.L. clergy abuse survivors disappointing, says advocate

Tara Bradbury · Reporter |Updated 1 hour ago |6 min read Premium content

A two-month procedural delay preventing survivors of clergy abuse from receiving compensation might be insignificant in terms of time span, but it's important when it comes to the ongoing trauma, says advocate Gemma Hickey. “Survivors serve a life ...

Robert Regular attended Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court Wednesday, April 10 for the third day of his sexual assault trial.

Trial for C.B.S. lawyer Robert Regular continues into day 10

Evan Careen · Multimedia journalist |Updated 1 hour ago |4 min read Premium content

Conception Bay South lawyer Robert Regular was scheduled to be the last person on the witness stand in his trial, but his lawyers informed the court on April 19 that they may want to call one more. The reliability of records provided by Regular has ...

People walk past remains of vehicles near the presidential palace, after they were set on fire by gangs, as violence spreads and armed gangs expand their control over the capital, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti March 25, 2024.

Haiti's death toll rises as international support lags, UN report says

Sarah Morland |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

By Sarah Morland (Reuters) - More than 2,500 people were killed or injured in gang violence in Haiti from January through March, up 53% from the last three months of 2023, the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said on Friday. At ...

A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows a woman and baby at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan.  MSF/Mohamed Zakaria/Handout via

UN warns 800,000 people in Sudan city in 'extreme, immediate danger'

Reuters |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in "extreme and immediate danger" as worsening violence advances and threatens to "unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur," top U.N. officials warned the ...

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

Videos