By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. government announced new sanctions on Thursday against firms and individuals that it says are aiding Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies in the Middle East as it intensified its campaign to isolate Iran economically. The latest sanctions are
BUKAVU, Congo (AP) — A fire swept through two adjacent schools Thursday in the city of Bukavu in eastern Congo, killing at least 26 students and injuring dozens, the provincial government said. The South Kivu provincial government said in a press release that 19 girls and seven boys were killed, add
By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Morocco’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that no evidence established involvement of Rabat in the mass crossing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in July, adding it rejected being drawn into Spain’s domestic political battles. More than 70,000 people
TORONTO (AP) — Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Thursday he hopes U.S. President Donald Trump’s Republicans lose both the House and Senate in the midterm elections, saying voters should punish Trump politically for his escalating trade war with Canada. “Hopefully he’s going to lose the Senate. He’s go
BERLIN, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Several people have been killed and several others injured in a bus crash in the Alpine village of Susch in eastern Switzerland, police said on Thursday. Emergency response teams were dispatched to the site of the accident involving a travel coach, police in the canton of
CALGARY, Alberta, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday said he had spoken to U.S. President Donald Trump “a couple of times” recently about the war in Ukraine and issues related to the Iran conflict. Carney, involved in a deepening trade war with the United States, tol
KYIV, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday there would be no trilateral meeting on how to end the war before the elections in Russia. Zelenskiy said Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators were in constant contact and he hoped for progress in talks on energy and grain
DUBAI, Sept 10 (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s “political moves” will push countries to exit the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said on Thursday. Mohsen Rezaei made his comments a day after the International Atomi
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA, Sept 10 (Reuters) – The traditional Ugandan kingdom of Tooro was plunged into a bitter succession battle on Thursday after the family of the late king, Oyo Nyimba, rejected clan members’ choice of a television news anchor to succeed him. While Uganda is a constitutional
SAO PAULO, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are statistically tied in a simulated runoff ahead of next month’s election, an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll showed on Thursday, with the right-wing lawmaker now holding a narrow numerical edge ove
By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Thursday declined to allow President Donald Trump’s administration to implement a new U.S. Postal Service rule that would tighten mail-in voting requirements before November’s congressional elections, as the U.S. Supreme Court weigh
By Benjamin Mejias MADRID, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Spain’s lower house voted on Thursday to grant citizenship to Sahrawis born when Madrid administered the North African territory of Western Sahara as a colony, a move that could inflame delicate relations with Morocco. The legislation, which a statement
By Parisa Hafezi, Mohammed Ghobari and Timour Azhari DUBAI/ADEN/RIYADH, Sept 10 (Reuters) – The lightning Houthi advance down Yemen’s Red Sea coast this week came with direct guidance from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seeking to open a new front in Iran’s war with the U.S., according to Yemeni govern
By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – The Trump administration has proposed eliminating a 60-day grace period that allows certain immigrants, including skilled workers on H-1B visas, to stay in the United States and find a new sponsor after losing their job, according to a government notic
ADEN, Yemen (AP) — The Iran-backed Houthi rebel group on Thursday took over Yemen’s port city of Mokha, an area vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea, Houthi and Yemeni officials said. Mokha is about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a vital waterway between the Red
BERLIN (AP) — The Swiss federal intelligence service on Thursday published a 200-page dossier on the notorious Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the German doctor known as the “Angel of Death” for conducting horrific medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. During World War II, Mengele served a
BRATISLAVA, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Poland averted a threat to one of its border crossings with Ukraine overnight and expects its crossings will be targeted as Moscow strikes trade routes to try to weaken Kyiv economically, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday. He spoke after drones hit a border
BERLIN, Sept 10 (Reuters) – European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday rejected French far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s plan to cancel a portion of France’s national debt, calling it “financially dangerous” and legally impossible under EU law. Mélenchon has proposed cancelling
By Maria Martinez BERLIN, Sept 10 (Reuters) – German Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said on Thursday he is concerned about the rise of far-right parties in Europe, following the Alternative for Germany’s election success in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. “What does this make with our countr
BANGKOK (AP) — Hundreds of people demonstrated outside Israel’s embassy in Bangkok on Thursday to demand foreigners show more respect for Thailand’s laws and culture as public discontent over bad behavior by visitors has increasingly focused on Israeli tourists. “The era of gentle diplomatic pleasan
By Nayera Abdallah Sept 10 (Reuters) – The Iran-backed Houthis are seeking to control the whole Yemeni Red Sea coast, which would further consolidate their leverage over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — one of the busiest and most contested global maritime chokepoints. The militant group has already decla
By Pavel Polityuk and Anna Pruchnicka KYIV, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Russia struck a petrol station in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and an international agribusiness facility run by Bunge in the southeastern city of Dnipro, authorities said on Thursday, as Moscow intensified attacks on logistics and economic t
By Crispian Balmer VENICE, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Mass civilian deaths were routinely built into Israeli military targeting decisions in Gaza, according to a Venice Film Festival documentary unveiled on Thursday that challenges official accounts of the war. “NAZA”, directed by Israeli journalists Yuval
By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Haseeb Alwazeer and Dawoud Abu Alkas CAIRO/GAZA, Sept 10 (Reuters) – As power cuts cascade through one of Gaza’s largest functioning hospitals and patients wait for treatment in sweltering wards, medics warn that shortages of engine oil and spare parts are causing generators to
DAKAR, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A fire at a school in Congo’s rebel-controlled city of Bukavu has killed at least 17 people, including some children, local and medical sources said on Thursday. A witness at the scene told Reuters he had helped to load 17 bodies of deceased men and children into an ambula
By Michael Holden LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A British man appeared in a London court on Thursday accused of providing information about factories which manufacture drones and offering to sabotage them on behalf of Russian intelligence. Joshua Cammidge, 31, has been charged with assisting a foreign
By Cassell Bryan-Low LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Britain has spent nearly $40 million on SpaceX satellite services, deepening its reliance on Elon Musk’s company for military communications despite growing European concerns about dependence on U.S. security infrastructure. The spending was disclosed
PARIS (AP) — At a museum in eastern France, two men disguised with wigs used a sledgehammer and a hammer to smash a display case and make off with a 2,500-year-old gold necklace. The heist took under four minutes. In a smash-and-grab at another French museum, three masked robbers stole 27 pieces of
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Bone fragments from the sword hand of a medieval Russian prince who won a famous victory over the Mongols have been sent to the front in Ukraine to raise army morale in the Russian Orthodox Church’s latest show of support for President Vladimir Putin’s wa
DUBAI, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Algeria has decided to sever diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates after what it described as the exhaustion of all means to preserve bilateral ties, the Algerian state TV said on Thursday. While the reason for the move was not immediately clear, Algerian medi
