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
By Francois Murphy BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria, July 22 (Reuters) – The building Adolf Hitler was born in near the Austrian border with Germany officially begins a new life as a police station on Wednesday, a conversion Austria’s government hopes will prevent it serving as a place of pilgrimage for neo-
LONDON, July 22 (Reuters) – Britain’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, said on Wednesday he would cut the price of single bus tickets by up to a third as part of early measures to try to ease cost-of-living pressures. Burnham wants to move quickly to show people he can improve their lives, after Br
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the bones of a massive prehistoric amphibian in a glass-walled laboratory on the ground floor of Warsaw’s Copernicus Science Centre. On the other side of the wall, visitors watch the work u
BUDAPEST, July 22 (Reuters) – Hungary’s former nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was ousted after 16 years in power in an election in April, has urged his supporters to restore democracy in the country which he said had been crushed by the new government. Orban made his first strong polit
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The head of Indonesia’s multi-billion-dollar free meals program resigned on Wednesday just 45 days after taking over from a predecessor who was removed over corruption allegations. Nanik S. Deyang cited health reasons, but her abrupt departure leaves the future of the troub
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE, July 22 (Reuters) – Member states of the International Criminal Court will vote on Friday on whether to fire chief prosecutor Karim Khan for alleged sexual misconduct in a case that has damaged the tribunal’s credibility at a time when the U.S. has ramped up its
By Gergely Szakacs, Canan Sevgili and Alan Charlish KISVARDA, Hungary/GDANSK, Poland, July 22 (Reuters) – Facing a choice between upsetting businesses and a public opinion backlash, the Polish and Hungarian ruling centrists are opting for curbs on foreign labour — something economists warn may hurt
By Felix Hoske KRAMATORSK, Ukraine, July 22 (Reuters) – Serhii Krynitskyi watched the life seep out of the only man who had shared his living hell. He and his comrade had survived nearly a year together in a foxhole on the front lines. They’d killed Russian soldiers and scavenged for food among the
BANGKOK, July 22 (Reuters) – The death toll from a July 13 fire at a pub in the Thai capital Bangkok rose to 35 on Wednesday, the city’s emergency services said. • Twenty-one people were still in hospital, with 12 still in critical condition, the Erawan Emergency Medical Centre said. • Another 48 pe
MOSCOW, July 22 (Reuters) – Another attack on the warehouses of Russia’s largest online retailer, Wildberries, has injured several people, said the head and co-founder of the company on Wednesday. The attacks on a company so central to the consumer economy appear to mark a widening of Kyiv’s strateg
By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) – A Houthi threat to impose a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea could significantly widen the Iran war and strain a U.S. military already focused on stopping Tehran’s attacks across the region, current and former U.S. offi
By Alasdair Pal and Christine Chen SYDNEY, July 22 (Reuters) – A Sydney court on Wednesday cleared Australian actor Rebel Wilson of defaming Charlotte MacInnes, the lead actor in Wilson’s directorial debut “The Deb,” over allegations linked to social media posts Wilson made about MacInnes. The dispu
HANOI, July 22 (Reuters) – Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called on Vietnam to release a former business executive and four other people over their roles in the publication and promotion of a book about Ho Chi Minh that allegedly contained anti-state content. Police two weeks ago arrested Nguyen Th
SINGAPORE, July 22 (Reuters) – Vessel crossings via the Strait of Hormuz dropped further on Tuesday, shipping data showed, as security concerns lingered amid ongoing attacks by the United States and Iran. A total of three commodity vessels crossed the strait on Tuesday, down from four the previous d
SANTIAGO, July 21 (Reuters) – The heavy rains that have hit much of Chile have left 13 people dead and seven missing, authorities said on Tuesday, while the government said it would seek sanctions on electricity distributors for sustained power outages. Storms have struck from the country’s central
By Michael Martina MANILA, July 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday on the sidelines of a regional gathering led by the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN, where the two top diplomats are expected to discuss a possible September summit b
PARIS (AP) — Two firefighters were killed on Tuesday in a fire in southwest France. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, who announced the deaths to lawmakers in the National Assembly, said the firefighters had been battling a building fire in Mérignac, a suburb of Bordeaux where the city’s airport in l
By Daniel Trotta July 21 (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Bertha churned across the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday as tropical-storm conditions spread across portions of the northern Gulf Coast, while a separate weather system threatened severe thunderstorms and heavy rain across the U.S. Northeas
HAVANA (AP) — The Spanish hotel chain Meliá said Tuesday it will completely shutter its operations in Cuba, dealing a blow to the tourism industry on the Caribbean island grappling with strict sanctions and an energy blockade imposed by the United States. A statement from the company said the decisi
WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said it has completed its 11th consecutive day of strikes on Iran. U.S. Central Command said the strikes targeted Iranian military operations centers, maritime capabilities, aircraft hangars, drone storage facilities, and military logistics infrastru
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, July 21 (Reuters) – Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and prosecutors with the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday proposed a June 2027 start date for Maduro’s U.S. criminal trial on drug trafficking charges. The joint proposal came in a court filing ahead of a hearing
