Diplomatic Push Collapses as US Renews Iran Strikes and Tehran Threatens Tel Aviv By The Media Line Staff Iran rejected a new ceasefire proposal from President Donald Trump, and US forces launched another night of strikes against Iranian military targets overnight into Friday after the president war
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the U.S. next week. Trump’s comments came in his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Friday, while he was falsely casting U.S.
4 Israeli Hikers Wounded After Terrorist Seizes Weapon Near Havat Gilad By The Media Line Staff The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was investigating a reported shooting near the Havat Gilad outpost in Samaria on Friday after an initial report said a group of Israeli hikers was attacked by Pales
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples said Friday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Peru’s Ministry of Culture to strengthen cooperation in protecting Indigenous territories, particularly those of isolated peoples along the border between the two countries. The agre
July 24 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview broadcast on Friday that cooperation between Kyiv and Washington on drones would include a U.S. factory to produce the unmanned aerial vehicles using Ukraine’s advanced technology. Zelenskiy, interviewed by U.S. right-wing blogge
SAO PAULO, July 24 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva maintained his lead over opposition senator Flavio Bolsonaro in a new Datafolha poll released on Friday ahead of Brazil’s October presidential election. Lula would defeat the senator, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro,
July 24 (Reuters) – The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said it carried out strikes on Houthi military sites in Yemen’s Hodeidah governorate on Friday, saying the sites were used to threaten commercial shipping. The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV said Saudi strikes hit facilities belonging to the stat
By Yuliia Dysa KYIV, July 24 (Reuters) – Protesters in Kyiv on Friday announced an open-ended rally demanding that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reappoint ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov after a badly explained government reshuffle escalated into a political crisis. The protest peaked last
By David Brunnstrom July 24 (Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly on Friday voted overwhelmingly to extend the term of U.N. Human Rights chief Volker Turk for four more years, despite opposition from Russia and Israel and a U.S. threat to reassess its funding and engagement. Turk, an outspoken criti
By Steve Holland and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday said he would not go forward with a civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia unless the Saudis agreed to a normalization in relations with Israel under the Abraham Accords. The U.S. Department of Energy
July 24 (Reuters) – A Russian ballistic missile strike on Friday in Ukraine’s Kyiv region killed 10 people and injured close to 100 at the site of a defence industry event that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said should never have taken place. Ukraine’s Emergency Services said its crews had completed
July 24 (Reuters) – A Saudi vessel, NCC MASA, sustained minor hull damage after it was attacked while sailing in the Red Sea on Friday, Saudi state news agency SPA reported, citing an official source at the General Transport Authority. The vessel continued to its destination after checks confirmed i
WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States and Iran were in talks to negotiate an end to their conflict, but repeated that Tehran was not yet ready for a deal. “We are talking to them. I think they’re being serious. I think … they are being by far th
July 24 (Reuters) – A Mozambique-flagged LPG tanker carrying 28 Indian crew members was attacked in Iranian territorial waters on Friday, the Indian embassy in Tehran said. All Indian crew members are safe and the embassy is in contact with the authorities, it said in a statement posted on X. The ve
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices, President Donald Trump said on Friday, claiming the bloc has unfairly levied billions of dollars of fines against Google, Apple and other U.S. tech giants. The Republican president made th
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) – Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman and onetime prominent ally of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, pleaded not guilty on Friday to U.S. money laundering charges. • Saab’s lawyers entered the not guilty plea on his behalf at a hearing in Miami fede
July 24 (Reuters) – Venezuela has formally notified the United Nations of its “irrevocable” decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia said on Friday. The government justified the move by alleging a “geographical bias” within the court, claiming it d
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE, July 24 (Reuters) – Karim Khan became one of the best-known international prosecutors in May 2024 when he announced he was seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, inserting the International Criminal Court into a confrontation with
LONDON (AP) — A police boat crashed into Westminster Bridge in central London on Friday, tossing officers into the River Thames and injuring five of the crew, the Metropolitan Police said. Paramedics treated the injured on a black inflatable boat as a police helicopter hovered overhead near the cloc
BEIJING, July 24 (Reuters) – China’s top police chief and the head of the U.S. FBI agreed on Friday to deepen cooperation on law enforcement between the two countries, Beijing said after the officials met in the Chinese capital. Their meeting followed two recent repatriations of fugitives between Ch
THE HAGUE, July 24 (Reuters) – Member states of the International Criminal Court on Friday voted to dismiss Karim Khan as prosecutor following allegations of sexual misconduct, two diplomatic sources told Reuters. According to the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive ma
ANKARA, July 24 (Reuters) – Turkish opposition leader Ozgur Ozel and 90 other breakaway lawmakers launched a new political party on Friday, seeking to regroup to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan after their former party faced an unprecedented legal crackdown. They applied to the interior ministry
By Timour Azhari and Mohammed Ghobari RIYADH/ADEN, July 24 (Reuters) – Yemen is edging towards the resumption of a more than decade-old frozen conflict, Yemeni officials, Western diplomats and analysts say, as attacks on Saudi infrastructure and shipping by Iran-aligned Houthis test the patience of
By Updates with backgroun in paragraphs 4-7 WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he does not believe China or Russia are “participating” in the ongoing Iran conflict, but warned that if they did get involved “it would be very bad for them.” “President Xi, a
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Oliver Griffin BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, July 24 (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed a law late on Thursday to ban the sale and production of the French delicacy foie gras in the South American country, citing animal cruelty. France considers foie gra
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s main opposition party faces a split in a disagreement over its future direction, with the party leader saying Friday that more than 30 lawmakers have effectively left. The conservative nationalist Law and Justice party ran Poland from 2015 to 2023, when the current lib
ROME (AP) — Archaeologists in Pompeii, the ancient city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, have unveiled the partially reconstructed frescoed ceiling vault of a banquet hall featuring detailed images of Greek mythology. The curved vault was presented late Thursday at the end of an in
LONDON (AP) — Andy Burnham is a man in a hurry. Since entering 10 Downing St. on Monday, Britain’s new prime minister has traveled to the southeast, southwest and northwest of England, and to Scotland, spoken to more than a dozen world leaders and made a flurry of small but symbolic economic announc
By Maria Cheng OTTAWA, July 24 (Reuters) – Canada will mark the opening of a bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, on Friday in a quiet celebration without U.S. officials after a dispute over toll-sharing and new threats of 50% tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump further st
By Asif Shahzad and Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD, July 23 (Reuters) – Pakistan is exploring a path towards a resumption of stalled U.S.-Iran talks over ending their nearly five-month-old war, three Pakistani sources said, following a push initiated by China. Exploratory discussions took place during a
