HAVANA (Reuters) - If May is any indication, Cuba is in for a long, hot summer, says Havana horse and buggy driver Osmel Valdes.
The 52-year-old Havana resident runs a transport service through the Cuban capital's sweltering streets. Shade is hard to come by so he lays a piece of scrap cardboard atop his horse between rides to give it respite.
"This month the heat has been terrible," he says.
Across the island nation,... (continue reading...)
By Tannur Anders
MIDRAND, South Africa (Reuters) - A top official in South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) backed President Cyril Ramaphosa despite a dismal result in this week's parliamentary election, saying he should still be the party leader and would not have to resign.
With just over 60% of votes counted, the vote share for the ANC - the party that has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994 - was just... (continue reading...)
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Five-year-old Adam Afana dreamt of being a police officer "to keep people safe," his uncle said, before losing his father, his siblings and cousins, and nearly all of his left arm in an Israeli strike seven months ago on Gaza.
Now, Adam is the first Palestinian child wounded in Israel's war in Gaza to land in Lebanon, where he has been receiving care since Monday at the American University of Beirut's Medical Center with help from... (continue reading...)
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss bank UBS said on Friday it had completed the merger of the main parent companies of the Swiss lender and its longtime rival Credit Suisse, which it acquired last year.
"The completion of the merger within the expected timeline was facilitated by the strong support from regulators across the globe," UBS said in a statement.
The parent merger is expected to allow the Swiss bank to get started with trickier stages of... (continue reading...)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that Moscow supported China's refusal to take part in a peace summit on Ukraine next month in Switzerland because it was futile to hold such an event without Russia's participation.
The talks were convened at the initiative of Ukrainian President Zelenskiy who has said Russian President Vladimir Putin should not attend.
Switzerland has not invited Russia, which sent tens of thousands of... (continue reading...)
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