PARIS, July 24 (Reuters) – An autopsy found no signs of violence in the death of modelling scout Daniel Siad, who had ties to the late convicted U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, French prosecutors said on Friday. Siad, 69, was found dead at his home in Colombes, northwest of Paris, on July 20. “No
WASHINGTON/KYIV, July 24 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy are scheduled to meet in Washington on Tuesday, a White House official said on Friday. A Ukrainian source said Zelenskiy was interested in traveling to the United States but his team was wait
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — As member nations of the International Criminal Court prepare to vote Friday on whether to permanently remove the global tribunal’s embattled chief prosecutor, concerns are emerging about the damage the drawn-out scandal has already inflicted on the already beleaguered
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The deposed leader of Turkey’s main opposition party on Friday formed a new political party to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, months after he was removed from his post by a court order that his supporters slammed as a political move to weaken the opposition. Ozgur Oz
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A United Nations committee voted Friday to inscribe a major archaeological site in the West Bank and a set of castles in southern Lebanon as World Heritage sites, despite objections from Israel, which had urged the committee to reject the bids. The decision at a U.N. Educat
MOSCOW, July 24 (Reuters) – Russian fashion designer Viktoria Terekhova shipped virtually her entire summer collection of children’s clothes last week to the giant warehouse of online retailer Wildberries at Elektrostal, east of Moscow. Within a couple of days, it was destroyed in a Ukrainian drone
JOHANNESBURG, July 24 (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday won a court challenge that halted a parliamentary impeachment process over misconduct allegations linked to the “Farmgate” scandal. The Western Cape High Court granted Ramaphosa an “interim interdict” that will tempo
JERUSALEM (AP) — Four Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in a shooting in the northern West Bank, health officials said Friday. Several more people were injured. The circumstances of the shooting, which occurred near the city of Nablus, were not immediately clear. Violence in the Israeli-occup
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reshuffled top posts on Friday as he tries to boost the fortunes of his deeply unpopular government ahead of regional elections in which a far-right party could get its first state governor. Merz took office less than 15 months ago with pledges to refor
By Camillus Eboh July 24 (Reuters) – Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has approved an expansion of the army to 12 divisions from eight and the recruitment of 28,000 additional personnel, the presidency said on Friday, as the government seeks to bolster its response to persistent security threats. • Ti
BERLIN, July 24 (Reuters) – Germany’s top court ruled on Friday that the government could not simply cancel an entire swathe of resettlement places promised to Afghans, and that each case must be considered individually. The Constitutional Court backed a complaint by an Afghan mother and her two son
MOSCOW, July 24 (Reuters) – Russia said on Friday that its forces had struck three Ukrainian ports overnight in attacks which had targeted infrastructure – including loading and unloading facilities and fuel reserves – which supported Kyiv’s armed forces. Russia’s Defence Ministry said air-launched
By Sergiy Karazy and Dan Peleschuk UNDISCLOSED LOCATION IN SOUTHERN UKRAINE, July 24 (Reuters) – In a field in southern Ukraine, soldiers scrawled sardonic messages on a sleek grey attack drone that would soon be hunting Russian ships on the Black Sea — part of a widening Ukrainian campaign to isola
ALFONSO, Philippines (AP) — The House of the Virgin Mary is a shrine located in Ephesus, Turkey, where the mother of Jesus is believed to have spent her final years. Thousands of miles away, nestled in a field outside Manila, a replica in the Philippines welcomes devotees in Asia’s biggest Catholic
Pakistan Warns Houthi Attacks on Its Ships Would Trigger Military Response Pakistan warned on Thursday that any attack on its commercial vessels in the Red Sea would be treated as an attack on the country’s national security, following claims by Yemen’s Houthi movement that it had targeted two Saudi
BEIJING, July 24 (Reuters) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasised security cooperation in separate meetings with his Belarusian and Uzbek counterparts, his ministry said in two statements released on Friday. Wang met with Belarus’ Maxim Ryzhenkov and Uzbekistan’s Bakhtiyor Saidov on the sidel
By Gabriel Araujo and Ricardo Brito SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, July 23 (Reuters) – Brazilian air accident investigators said on Thursday that a buildup of ice, failures in the aircraft’s de-icing system, crew actions and deficiencies at regional airline Voepass contributed to the 2024 crash of an ATR turbo
SAO PAULO (AP) — The Ashaninka Indigenous people — who recovered their territory in the Brazilian border with Peru from settlers three decades ago, established and sustained their own governance, and grew crops while protecting the forest — have long been a success story for communities across the A
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Education Department said on Thursday it was removing several “disparate impact” regulations, which for decades have prohibited policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended. Sixty civil rights and education gr
By Jody Godoy July 23 (Reuters) – Paramount Skydance must pause its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery through August 17, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. The move gives Paramount Skydance more time to argue against a potential months-long pause while the case plays out. The compan
By Curtis Williams July 23 (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago businessman Dominic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve Hadeed were released from prison on Thursday after being held for nearly a month without charges over allegations they were involved in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bisse
President Trump Threatens Massive Attack on Iran as Israel Opens Shelters By The Media Line Staff President Donald Trump said he is considering launching what he described as the largest US attack yet against Iran, while several Israeli municipalities opened public bomb shelters ahead of the weekend
By David Lawder July 23 (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Friday will impose new tariffs of 10% and 12.5% on 60 trading partners, including the European Union, over allegations of lax enforcement of forced labor bans, just as a temporary 10% global tariff expires, senior administration officia
July 23 (Reuters) – Russian bomb attacks injured dozens of people and seriously damaged residential buildings in eastern Ukrainian cities on Thursday, officials said. Five guided bombs hit residences and a medical facility in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, injuring 15 people, regional govern
By Emma Farge and Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, July 23 (Reuters) – United Nations Human Rights chief Volker Turk, an outspoken critic of Russia’s war in Ukraine and Israel’s conduct in Gaza, faces opposition from both countries to a second four-year term ahead of a potentially contentious vote on Frid
HAVANA (AP) — Hundreds of boxes of humanitarian aid from the U.S. are being distributed in two towns near the Cuban capital, the Catholic Church organization in charge of the distribution said Thursday. The aid arrived this week and its distribution began on Wednesday. It is shrouded in controversy
July 23 (Reuters) – Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended his hunger strike after 26 days, he said on Friday. He said in a post on X that he had ended his fast after “a long negotiation on various conditions and in view of possible violence in the country”. Wangchuk, 59, had been on a hunger stri
Iran Warns It Will Invade Kuwait if US Launches Kurdish-Backed Ground Offensive By The Media Line Staff Iran will respond to a US ground operation backed by Kurdish forces by invading Kuwait, a source inside Iran told The Media Line. The report follows a warning by Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a mem
Haim Yavin, Israel’s Enduring Voice of Public Television, Dies at 93 Known to Israelis as “Mr. Television,” Yavin was a foundational figure in Israeli broadcasting—someone who did not simply report the country’s history but helped establish the medium through which much of that history was experienc
MADRID, July 23 (Reuters) – Spain’s lower house rejected the government’s proposed 2027 spending framework on Thursday, dealing a fresh blow to its efforts to approve a state budget before the end of the legislature next year. • The proposal was rejected by a vote of 166-176 with five abstentions. •
