WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has paused attacks on Iran to allow more room for diplomacy, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Sunday. “He’s giving talks some space, he’s giving it a little bit of room,” Mike Waltz told the “Fox News Sunday” program. Waltz
By Manuel Ausloos and David Latona BORDEAUX/MADRID, July 26 (Reuters) – Wildfires advanced towards the outskirts of the historic city of Bordeaux, at the heart of France’s winelands, on Sunday as France and Spain battled blazes that have forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. Abou
By Laura Garcia TEGUCIGALPA, July 26 (Reuters) – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez is set to return to Honduras on Sunday, eight months after U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned him while he was serving a 45-year U.S. prison sentence for drug and arms trafficking. Hernandez, who serv
By Elviira Luoma PAIMIO, Finland, July 26 (Reuters) – A sanatorium designed to foster a soothing environment to help tuberculosis patients recover was among a series of sites by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto to join UNESCO’s World Heritage List on Sunday. The Aalto Works, comprising 13 sites across
By David Brunnstrom July 26 (Reuters) – Ugandan diplomat Olara Otunnu has joined the contest to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations, the seventh contender to succeed Antonio Guterres when he steps down at the end of this year. Otunnu, a former U.N. under-secretary-general who ser
DAKAR, July 26 (Reuters) – Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has launched a new political party, formalising his break with former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and the ruling Pastef party that swept him to power in 2024. • Faye unveiled his Kiiraay — Republican Patriots party at a gathering
CAIRO, July 26 (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike on Sunday killed a senior officer of the Hamas-run Palestinian internal security service in the Gaza Strip and an associate as they travelled in a vehicle through Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, medics and police officials said. The strike killed Colone
By Miranda Murray BERLIN, July 26 (Reuters) – Members of Berlin’s LGBTQ community and others voiced grief, anger and solidarity on Sunday after a vehicle rammed into crowds at the city’s annual Christopher Street Day Pride celebrations, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen. Organisers o
BUCHAREST, July 26 (Reuters) – A Romanian F-16 fighter jet pilot shot down a Russian drone over the Black Sea, the defence ministry said on Sunday, the latest in a series of breaches of the NATO member’s airspace that President Nicusor Dan called “inadmissible and intolerable”. Romania shares a 650-
PARIS, July 26 (Reuters) – The Normandy D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, to fight Adolf Hitler’s Nazi troops and go on to liberate France have become a UNESCO protected world heritage site, the United Nations body said on Sunday. • In a statement on its website, UNESCO said
HONG KONG, July 26 – China said on Sunday it organised a routine patrol by its naval and air forces in the South China Sea, accusing the Philippines of holding patrols with foreign countries in the disputed waterway that undermined regional peace and stability. • The comments came from the Southern
By Ali Sawafta and Mohammed Torokman QUSRA, West Bank, July 26 (Reuters) – Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank early on Sunday, setting fire to two mosques and scrawling graffiti on buildings, Palestinian officials said. On Friday, four Palestinians and two Israe
By Manuel Ausloos BORDEAUX, France, July 26 (Reuters) – Firefighters battled to control wildfires threatening the French city of Bordeaux on Sunday, while authorities evacuated increasing numbers of people from its suburbs. The southwestern French region has been hit by wildfires during an intense s
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) — A raging wildfire in southwest France forced the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight Sunday, bringing the total forced out of their homes to a staggering 220,000 in one region alone, as flames crept ever closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux. Neighboring Spain o
July 26 (Reuters) – New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham “will always put Britain’s interests first”, he told the BBC when asked in an interview, parts of which were released on Sunday, whether he was willing to call out U.S. President Donald Trump. Burnham’s predecessor Keir Starmer, who announced he
July 26 (Reuters) – The main land border crossing between Kuwait and Iraq has reopened, Iraq’s state news agency cited the country’s border crossings authority as saying on Sunday. The Abdali border crossing was temporarily closed after a drone attack on Thursday that caused material damage but no c
MANILA, July 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. and Japan joined the Philippines in maritime exercises in the South China Sea, as the Filipino and Chinese governments traded accusations following an encounter between vessels from their countries in the disputed waters. The five-day drills from July 21 to 25 b
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African couple found themselves in a rare situation when they witnessed a humpback whale “supergroup” consisting of nearly 300 of the giant marine mammals gathering together. It’s an indication, scientists say, of how some whale species numbers have strongly re
HONG KONG, July 26 (Reuters) – Rescuers were searching on Sunday for 23 people missing after a Vietnamese ship sank in the busy waterway of the South China Sea, while 39 were pulled from the waters, China’s state broadcaster CCTV said. Authorities in the southern province of Hainan said the cargo ve
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it denied visas to two U.S. State Department officials that sought to travel to the South American nation next week, in the latest political barb between the two countries. The move became public after The Washington Post reported the Brazi
Qatar Welcomes Dutch, Belgian Bans on Israeli Settlement Products By The Media Line Staff Qatar called on more countries to prohibit trade with Israeli settlements after the Netherlands and Belgium approved measures banning settlement products, describing the decisions as an important step toward in
BERLIN, July 26 (Reuters) – Germany has seen a series of vehicle-ramming incidents since the 2016 attack on Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz Christmas market, prompting repeated security alerts around public gatherings, Christmas markets, carnival events and demonstrations. BERLIN, JULY 2026 — CHRISTOPHER
SYDNEY, July 26 (Reuters) – Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday he would seek to raise the issue of tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump, after Washington this week imposed new tariffs on its trading partners including Australia. The United States on Friday imposed new tar
VIENNA, July 26 (Reuters) – A suspected perpetrator of the apparent car attack on Pride celebrations in Berlin on Saturday night has been identified as a member of the city’s “Islamist scene” but he has not yet been arrested, a spokesman for Berlin police said on Sunday. “We have now identified a su
HONG KONG, July 26 (Reuters) – Typhoon Noul made landfall early on Sunday in southern China, bringing heavy rain and gale-force winds across Guangdong province and neighbouring Hong Kong, with authorities warning that heavy to torrential rain would continue until Tuesday. Noul, which means the glow
By Raphael Satter and Lefteris Papadimas WASHINGTON/ATHENS, July 26 (Reuters) – Signs of the Iran war’s spread emerged this weekend despite a pause in U.S. strikes, as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Saudi oil installations along the Red Sea coast and Iran accused Ukraine of targeting an Irani
July 26 (Reuters) – The Ukrainian capital Kyiv came under attack from Russian forces early on Sunday, with falling debris triggering fires in at least three districts, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Ukraine’s air force said Russian forces had targeted the capital with ballistic missiles. But an air al
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal ‘s president formally launched his own political party Saturday, cementing his rupture with former ally Ousmane Sonko, the head of the ruling Pastef party, and setting up a power struggle during a major debt crisis. The creation of Bassirou Diomaye Faye ‘s Republican Pa
BERLIN, July 25 (Reuters) – A car drove into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride celebrations on Saturday evening, injuring several people, Berlin police said. Police said on the social media platform X they were responding with emergency services to an incident in the city’s central Tiergarten park close t
July 25 (Reuters) – A spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Britain would become a “definite and legitimate target” if it supported the U.S. in any war with Tehran, according to Iranian state broadcaster IRIB. The spokesperson said any country, including Britain and Gulf
