Lebanese PM Calls for Full Israeli Withdrawal as Pullback Begins By The Media Line Staff Israeli forces began withdrawing Tuesday from parts of the southern Lebanese town of Zawtar al-Gharbiyah under a US-brokered framework agreement, as the Lebanese prime minister renewed calls for a complete Israe
By Marisa Taylor WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was freed from a 45-year sentence over cocaine trafficking in the United States by U.S. President Donald Trump, said on Wednesday he will seek to have local charges against him dismissed when he re
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s lawmakers said they will carry out a plan by President Daniel Ortega to abolish elections in the Central American country, prompting renewed criticisms Wednesday by the international community. The move was announced in a statement Tuesday by Nicaragua’s congress, whic
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) – The Justice Department is demanding data from New Jersey on non-U.S.-citizens the state says were accidentally registered to vote, as the Trump administration seeks to use the errors in its broader fight with states over election security. In a let
By Jonathan Landay, Gram Slattery and Timour Azhari WASHINGTON/RIYADH, July 22 (Reuters) – Iranian drone attacks on CIA facilities in the Gulf have prompted U.S. intelligence analysts to investigate whether Russia assisted by providing targeting information or advanced drone technology, said four pe
KYIV, July 22 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spoke on Wednesday about the prospects for pursuing more active diplomacy and moving towards an accord to end the more than four-year-old war with Russia. Both the Ukrainian leader and t
ZURICH, July 22 (Reuters) – Switzerland’s highest court has ordered a fresh ruling in the case of three men accused of breaching bank secrecy laws over leaked data that helped expose the cum-ex tax fraud scandal — one of Europe’s largest financial crimes. The three men, who are not named in the cour
OpenAI Goes Rogue in ‘Unprecedented’ Attack, Hacks Startup During Testing By The Media Line Staff OpenAI said an autonomous artificial intelligence agent escaped a controlled testing environment during an internal cybersecurity evaluation, reached the public internet, and hacked AI startup Hugging F
JOHANNESBURG, July 22 (Reuters) – Two Ghanaian nationals have petitioned the International Criminal Court to open a preliminary investigation into attacks against foreign nationals in South Africa, which they said could constitute crimes against humanity. South Africa has been gripped by a surge in
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met Pakistan’s finance minister, Muhammad Aurangzeb, on Tuesday and welcomed the country’s progress in implementing economic reforms and laying the groundwork for a return to international capital markets, Treasur
ROME (AP) — The Vatican on Wednesday confirmed that a church trial against a famous ex-Jesuit priest accused of spiritual and sexual abuse of women is ongoing and defended the secrecy of the proceedings as necessary to guarantee the process. An Italian blog reported Monday that an acquittal verdict
MOSCOW, July 22 (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday it had struck the Ukrainian cities of Odesa and Chornomorsk, hitting port infrastructure and vessels that it said were supporting the Ukrainian military. Russia’s defence ministry said the latest strikes had targeted a dry-cargo ship unloading at
By Nina Lopez, Charlie Devereux and Aislinn Laing BEDAR, Spain July 22 (Reuters) – When 12 people died trying to escape a wildfire around the mountain village of Bedar and a nearby hamlet in southern Spain on July 9, regional officials said some of them had ignored advice to remain at their homes. B
By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW, July 22 (Reuters) – From humble origins as a family business run out of an apartment near Moscow, Wildberries has grown in under two decades into Russia’s top online retailer and a key economic driver in the country. It’s now become a target of strikes by Ukraine. Ukraine ha
BEIRUT, July 22 (Reuters) – Lebanon and Israel are scheduled to hold their next round of U.S.-brokered talks on August 4 in Italy, a Lebanese official told Reuters on Wednesday, as the two countries begin implementing a plan for Israeli withdrawals and Lebanese army deployments in southern Lebanon.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United States and Pakistan on Wednesday condemned Yemen’s Houthi rebels for threatening commercial shipping in the Red Sea after the group announced a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia earlier this week. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio blamed Iran for the Houthi rebel grou
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Firefighters in central Spain on Wednesday battled a wildfire that has burned over 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) in one of the country’s largest blazes on record. The fire in rural Guadalajara comes less than two weeks after a deadly blaze devastated a small expat community
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Pakistani airstrike that hit a drug treatment center in the Afghan capital Kabul in March, killing hundreds of civilians, should be investigated as a possible war crime, human rights organization Amnesty International says. In a social media post on Wednesday, the rights
WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump renewed his threats to attack Iranian infrastructure on Wednesday, saying the U.S. would attack a bridge or power plant each time Tehran targets a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. “Any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strai
PARIS, July 22 (Reuters) – Daniel Siad, a modelling scout with ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been found dead at his home outside Paris, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Siad’s body was discovered on Monday evening. An autopsy will be carried out to determine the cause of
GENEVA, July 22 (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday condemned what he described as a further deterioration of civil and political rights in Nicaragua, warning that proposed measures to bar political opponents from elections would deepen an already severe crackdown on disse
By Dominique Vidalon PARIS, July 22 (Reuters) – The Louvre Museum’s Apollo Gallery reopened to visitors on Wednesday without any jewels on display, nine months after a daring robbery of crown jewels worth $102 million exposed major security failings at the world’s most-visited museum. Visitors can o
DUBAI, July 22 (Reuters) – The Trump administration backs a nuclear energy pact with Riyadh allowing Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium and process spent atomic fuel, two sources have said, a move that may worry regional states concerned about weapons proliferation. Here are some of the main issues at p
DUBAI, July 22 (Reuters) – Iran executed a man on charges linked to nationwide protests in January, an opposition group and the Iranian judiciary’s official Mizan news agency reported on Wednesday. Mizan identified the man as Mehdi Khaneki and said he was executed for “operational actions” that bene
By Max Hunder July 22 (Reuters) – Ukraine has agreed to export drones to the United States to participate in the Pentagon’s Drone Dominance programme, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. The agreement comes as Kyiv and Washington have been negotiating a wider drone deal for
PARIS (AP) — The Louvre’s Apollo gallery on Wednesday reopened to the public for the first time since 88 million euros ($102 million) worth of crown jewels were stolen in a dramatic daytime heist. The public can tour the majestic room and view its gilded ceilings and Greek frescoes en route to the n
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s prime minister Wednesday visited a battered southern village as a Lebanese-Israeli agreement brokered by Washington appears to have started following a monthslong war. Nawaf Salam’s appearance in Zawtar Al Gharbieh comes a day after President Joseph Aoun’s landmark White Hous
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine pushed on with its fight against Russia’s invasion under new military leadership Wednesday, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bowed to public pressure and fired his commander-in-chief. Ukraine has made significant progress in the war this year, and a rift between the c
GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Toxic gas prevented rescuers from reaching 13 workers trapped in a collapsed hydropower tunnel in India on Wednesday after a gas explosion two days earlier killed 12 workers. The blast triggered by a buildup of methane gas tore through the tunnel Monday at the 500-megawatt Tee
MANILA, July 22 (Reuters) – Canada is calling for a de-escalation and a permanent ceasefire in the Middle East, with the situation “quite grave”, its foreign minister Anita Anand said on Wednesday on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting. She also reaffirmed Canada’s support for international law in add
