(Reuters) -A campus police officer helped thwart a white gunman’s plan to “wreak murderous havoc” at Florida’s first historically Black university, the school’s president said on Monday, two days after the shooter killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville. The shooter, 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter, had …

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia pledged at the United Nations on Monday to keep providing “comprehensive assistance” to Mali, where about 1,000 fighters with Russia’s Wagner mercenary group are helping the West African state’s junta fight an Islamist insurgency. Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash last week …

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa and the U.S. separately on Monday noted observers’ concerns with last week’s presidential and parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe and called for peace, after the opposition called the vote a fraud. The elections commission declared incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa, 80, the winner late on Saturday, but …

(Reuters) – A white man who shot and killed three African Americans at a Dollar General Store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday was motivated by a hatred of Black people, according to police, who said he left behind several statements detailing his motives. The rampage, which ended when the gunman …

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis came under criticism on Monday for telling Russian youths to remember that they are the heirs of past Tsars such as Peter the Great, who President Vladimir Putin has held up as an example to justify the invasion of Ukraine. Francis made his comments …

(Reuters) – Defending champion Remco Evenepoel delivered a perfectly-timed sprint to take victory in stage three of the Vuelta a Espana on Monday, beating Jonas Vingegaard and Juan Ayuso to the finish line as he also claimed the leader’s red jersey. The third stage was a 158.5-kilometre ride from Suria …

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish soccer boss Luis Rubiales, who caused a furore when he grabbed player Jenni Hermoso’s head and kissed her on the lips following Spain’s victory at the Women’s World Cup on Aug. 20, faces at least three legal and administrative challenges. Hermoso says she did not want …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic returns to the U.S. Open spotlight on Monday as the three-time champion takes centre stage on opening night at the season’s final Grand Slam. Prevented from playing in last year’s U.S. Open due to being unvaccinated against COVID-19, Djokovic will begin his quest to …

(Reuters) – Sudan’s military ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Monday dashed hopes of talks to end a months-long war, denouncing the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as “traitors” and promising a decisive victory in a speech to soldiers. Millions have been driven from their homes and a humanitarian crisis …

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has increased her lead in the race to be ruling party candidate in next June’s presidential election with just days to go before the winner is chosen, an opinion poll showed on Monday. The Aug. 18-23 survey of 1,000 adults …