HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A television game show in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a U.S.-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents’ mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom. Meanwhile, a 15-year-old Ca
Gilad Erdan Withdraws Unity Party From Upcoming Election By The Media Line Staff Gilad Erdan’s Unity Party will not run in Israel’s upcoming election after its support failed to provide a strong likelihood of crossing the electoral threshold and efforts to join forces with other parties did not succ
Moumen Al-Natour Escapes Gaza: ‘Hamas Made This War,’ Seeks Peace with Israel Al-Natour aims for a meeting with President Trump, says Gazan civil society is not Hamas, wants a political role, and calls for schoolbook reform to counter radicalization By Felice Friedson / The Media Line The path out o
They Fought ISIS. Now Kurdish Women Fighters Are Searching for a Place in Syria’s New Order YPJ members fear that integration plans will absorb male SDF fighters while excluding women from Syria’s new military By Rizik Alabi / The Media Line [DAMASCUS] More than 1,500 fighters from the Kurdish Women
Huckabee Calls Settler Attacks ‘Acts of Terror’ During West Bank Visit By The Media Line Staff US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya in the West Bank on Saturday, condemning violence by Israeli settlers against residents and describing attacks on people
(Corrects to add media identifier; no change to story text) JAKARTA, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Soekarno-Hatta international airport suspended flight operations until 9:30 a.m. (0230 GMT) on Sunday due to volcanic ash from the ongoing eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau, Jakarta’s main airport poste
By Miranda Murray BERLIN, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Voters in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt will go to the polls on Sunday in a closely watched election that could see the Alternative for Germany (AfD) become the first far-right party to take power at a state level since the World War Two. Unde
A fire at a wedding party in Congo ‘s capital Kinshasa left at least 22 people dead, the regional mayor said Saturday. Several others were injured. The fire started Friday night and continued into early Saturday in a building in Lingwala in northern Kinshasa. The building’s narrow hallways were cons
By Leila Miller BUENOS AIRES, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Argentines have broadly backed President Javier Milei’s forceful push against oil drilling near the Falkland Islands, underscoring the enduring resonance of Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the British-controlled archipelago. In a televised address
MOSCOW, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. special representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Saturday that contacts between Moscow and Washington were always beneficial, and that Russia found it convenient to work with them. Witkoff said U.S. President Donald Trum
BERLIN, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Berlin’s state government said on Saturday it was reviewing with the highest intensity a trove of stolen data published by a ransomware group, as investigators attempt to assess the scale and impact of the cyberattack that targeted two departments. • The cyberattack on Ber
Sept 5 (Reuters) – Ten people were killed when a fuel tanker exploded on a highway in western Iran as a result of a traffic accident, state media reported on Saturday. • The tanker, which was traveling on the Hamedan-Sanandaj Highway, was involved in an accident due to a technical fault in the braki
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek air force jet crashed at an air show north of Athens on Saturday, killing the two pilots, officials said, as thousands of people were in attendance at the event. The crash of the twin-seat Phantom F4 jet occurred during a low-altitude maneuver. A fire after the crash se
CERNOBBIO, Italy, Sept 5 (Reuters) – NATO members should not tolerate deliberate actions of hybrid war, and the United States will stand by countries as they deal with these incidents, Matthew Whitaker, the U.S. ambassador to NATO, said on Saturday. Whitaker said last month’s attempted drone attack
By Valentina Za, Elvira Pollina and Francesca Landini CERNOBBIO, Italy, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Italy’s rising far-right politician Roberto Vannacci told a high profile business forum on Saturday that the European Union should halt political integration and start defending its cultural identity instead,
LIMA, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Peru declared a state of emergency in five high-security prisons on Saturday, allowing police and military forces to take control of the facilities in response to citizens’ security concerns, the government said in a decree. The 60-day measure was issued by the government of
HOUSTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) – American forces struck three Iranian crude oil tankers on Saturday after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two U.S. Navy ships, U.S. Central Command said. No American personnel were harmed, Central Command said. (Reporting by Georgina McCartney in Houston; Editing by Se
PARIS, Sept 5 (Reuters) – A plan agreed by Britain’s populist Reform UK party and France’s National Rally, aimed at sending asylum seekers who arrive in Britain in small boats back to France, drew criticism from several French presidential election candidates on Saturday. A memorandum of understandi
ZAGREB, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people gathered in Zagreb’s central square on Saturday to protest the government’s failure to begin cleaning up more than 30,000 tons of waste in central Croatia that environmentalists say is polluting the drinking water in the area. The protest, one o
ATHENS, Sept 5 (Reuters) – A Greek two-seat F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashed on Saturday during an air show at Tanagra airport, near Athens, a Greek Air Force official told Reuters. Video footage from public broadcaster ERT, which first reported the crash, showed a column of black smoke rising a few
By Ju-min Park BEIJING, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Priyanka Choudhary, an Indian-born Finnish citizen returning from a Hindu pilgrimage in Tibet, was at a border crossing with Nepal when a catastrophic mudslide hit. She is one of 261 foreign nationals still missing in Tibet 10 days after the disaster, and h
By Sarah Kinosian, Marianna Parraga and Gram Slattery CARACAS/MIAMI, Sept 5 (Reuters) – The billionaire who helped broker the Trump administration’s sweeping long-term oil deal with Venezuela was until recently a target of U.S. money-laundering investigations involving funds embezzled from the state
MOSCOW, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev will meet U.S. special representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner upon their arrival in Moscow on Saturday, two people familiar with the upcoming visit told Reuters. Dmitriev, who told Reuters in June that he had remained in
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, Sept 4 (Reuters) – When the mountain gave way above the Nepali power plant where Sanjay Sah worked, he had a choice: flee, or stay. He chose to stay and help. The mechanical foreman was rescued on Friday alongside another worker, nine days after a wall of ice, rock and deb
TURMUS AYYA, Ramallah, Sept 5 (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee met on Saturday with Palestinians, including the families of U.S. citizens killed by Israeli settlers, in a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank that has been the target of repeated settler attacks. Settler viole
Damascus Gate Stabbing Attack Leaves 1 Wounded, Terrorist Killed By The Media Line Staff A 33-year-old East Jerusalem man was shot and killed by Border Police after attempting to stab civilians and security forces near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City early Friday, in a suspected terror attack
Netanyahu Declares Fall of Iranian Regime Is ‘‘Within Reach’ By The Media Line Staff Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Tel Aviv that removing Iran’s government has become a central Israeli objective and is within reach. Netanyahu made the comments during a toast ahead of Rosh Hashana
BEIRUT (AP) — Since a ceasefire went into effect between Israel and Hezbollah more than two months ago, fighting has stopped in much of Lebanon, but not on a strategic hill overlooking parts of a main southern city. In recent weeks, Ali Taher hill has been the scene of daily shelling and airstrikes
By Nestor Corrales and Eloisa Lopez MANILA, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte posted bail on Saturday after a trial court ordered her arrest on three counts of grave threats linked to comments she made about President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the first lady and a former House spe
BEIJING, Sept 5 (Reuters) – One person has been confirmed dead and 11 others remain missing after torrential rains triggered a mudslide early Saturday morning in a town in China’s Jiangxi Province, local authorities said. Due to heavy rainfall brought by Typhoon Saudel, the mudslide struck around 4
