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By Mohammed Salem

GAZA (Reuters) - After another airstrike pulverised Gaza, the two al-Breim sisters realised their mother Amira was missing and rushed to the scene, crying out her name and frantically sifting through rubble for any sign of her.

"It is like we're in a nightmare. It is as though we are in a dream. A dream," sobbed Samar al-Breim amid piles of collapsed concrete and twisted cables.

"I pray to God that I wake... (continue reading...)

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's sexual minorities face escalating human rights violations, with over 1000 cases recorded in the last nine months involving arrests, torture and house evictions among others, according to a report by a pressure group.

Members of Uganda's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) community have faced increasing rights violations since early last year when Uganda's parliament started considering an... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department said Monday it has imposed $2.5 million in civil penalties in total against Lufthansa, Air France unit KLM Royal Dutch Airways and South African Airways.

The civil penalties, the department said, are for significant delays in providing more than $900 million in refunds owed to passengers due to flights disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the $1.1 million penalties imposed on KLM and Lufthansa, each... (continue reading...)

By Abdelaziz Boumzar

ORAN, Algeria (Reuters) - Algeria wants to lure more visitors to the cultural and scenic treasures of Africa's largest country, shedding its status as a tourism backwater and expanding a sector outshone by competitors in neighbouring Morocco and Tunisia.

The giant north African country offers Roman and Islamic sites, beaches and mountains just an hour's flight from Europe, and haunting Saharan landscapes, where... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) -NYSE Equities said on Monday it was currently investigating a reported technical issue regarding Limit Up-Limit Down bands, sending dozens of stocks listed on the exchange into volatility pauses.

The LULD mechanism is meant to prevent trades in securities from occurring outside of price bands. The bands are set at a percentage level above and below the average reference price of the security over the immediately preceding five-minute period.