LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Lisbon inaugurated a memorial Thursday to the 16 people killed in a funicular derailment a year ago, as questions persist about the safety of the city’s iconic hillside streetcars, which remain at a standstill. Near the crash site, a 150-year-old olive tree stood at the cente
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Hundreds of opposition lawmakers and activists protested in Sri Lanka’s capital Thursday to demand that the government withdraw legislation that would add top judges and allow them longer terms, calling it an attempt to control the judiciary. The demonstration comes nearly
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nothing has shaped what it means to be Venezuelan today more than oil. For more than 100 years, in good times and bad, Venezuelans’ identity has been built around the belief that their country’s bountiful oil resources belong to the people, not a government or a company. Th
Sept 3 (Reuters) – Only a “serious, democratic government” can provide the stability needed by investors in Venezuela’s oil sector, opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado said in a video message on Thursday. International energy firms on Wednesday committed to expanding
BEIRUT, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Syria has begun destroying the remnants of a clandestine Assad-era chemical weapons program that it recovered in May, the first such destruction in a decade, a Syrian envoy and a U.N. representative said on Thursday. Reuters reported in May that Syria’s new leadership had
BRUSSELS (AP) — The United Nations said in a report Thursday that foreign networks are helping fuel the brutal war in Sudan that has raged between the army and the paramilitary group Rapid Security Forces since 2023, killing at least 59,000 people, displacing some 13 million and pushing many parts o
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The body of the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who died last week while serving a life sentence for genocide and other atrocities during the war in Bosnia, will be flown to Serbia on Thursday, President Aleksandar Vucic said. Vucic told reporters that the U.
SAN RAFAEL, Philippines (AP) — A school shooting this week in Thailand may spark greater interest in holding more active shooter drills at educational institutions, as Southeast Asian nations consider measures to curb gun violence. Students in San Rafael, in the Philippines, took part in the Nationw
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is telling vulnerable Republican candidates to run proudly on the administration’s record as the final stretch of the midterm campaign begins. Speaking Wednesday at a Rose Garden dinner for GOP lawmakers, the president said Republicans have a strong, substant
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Renewed fighting erupted early Thursday between government forces and militias on the outskirts of Somalia’s southwestern city of Baidoa, with reports of heavy gunfire and civilians fleeing their homes. Somalia’s Defense Ministry said government forces responded to an attac
DUBAI, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday the deaths of six more military personnel from U.S. strikes this week, bringing the military death toll to at least 13. The U.S. strikes on Tuesday were the most extensive for weeks. In the latest report on milita
WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick apologized on Thursday for stating that no Americans had died in the Iran war, acknowledging that 18 service members have been killed and he was thinking about Venezuela when he made the mistaken statement. “I misspoke. Eighteen m
BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese man who had been held prisoner in Israel was released Thursday, the first such handover since the outbreak of the latest Israel-Hezbollah war six months ago, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Lebanese officials said. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjam
LONDON (AP) — The Sultan of Oman will visit Britain for a three-day state visit next month as the Arab nation that controls the southern shore of the Strait of Hormuz comes under pressure from both the U.S. and Iran. King Charles III and Queen Camilla will host Sultan Haitham bin Tarik at Windsor Ca
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering and developing conductive polymers, has died. He was 90. The discovery by Shirakawa and two fellow American scientists, Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid, demonstrated that plastic could co
Sept 3 (Reuters) – Israel will release five Lebanese citizens detained in southern Lebanon after finding they had no links to militant groups, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Thursday. It said the decision came amid negotiations with Lebanon to recover the remains of Jewish commun
STOCKHOLM, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Sweden’s ruling right-wing bloc has closed in on the centre-left opposition ahead of a parliamentary election on September 13, according to a fresh opinion poll released on Thursday, the second survey this week to indicate a close race. While earlier polls have pointed
By Saurabh Sharma and Joseph Campbell TARKESHWAR, Nepal, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Dhan Bahadur Tamang was at work in a hydropower project near Nepal’s border with China when he sensed a sudden air pressure change in the underground tunnel at the Upper Trishuli 1 hydropower project. Under the industrial fl
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday rejected suggestions that Moroccan authorities helped orchestrate the deadly mass crossing of migrants from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, as pressure grows over his handling of the crisis. “I can assure you that that no inst
HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese lawyer who defended a prominent underground church in Beijing fled to Taiwan and is seeking help for resettlement, following mounting pressure from Chinese authorities on her firm and her colleagues. Ruth Wang, partner at VDoor Law Firm, was part of a legal team that repre
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian firefighters are struggling against an unprecedented wave of deadly and devastating wildfires that have prompted the president to call for reinstating the death penalty for arsonists. The fires have spread across several provinces, creating a vast front of flames str
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Thousands of young Orthodox Christians gathered in Romania’s capital for a candlelit procession that illuminated a trail from the giant National Cathedral to Patriarchate Hill, a historic site considered sacred to Romanian Orthodoxy. The Procession of Lights was part of a f
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police are pushing for an indictment of music tycoon Bang Si-Hyuk, the chairperson of the agency behind K-pop supergroup BTS, over alleged investor fraud. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency referred Bang to the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office on T
LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Britain’s King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla will host Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq at Windsor Castle for a state visit next month, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday. The visit from October 20 to 22 will come against the backdrop of escalating tensions in the Midd
By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA, Sep 3 (Reuters) – Weeks before Brazil’s October election, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is running one of the country’s most cautious presidential campaigns in years as he tries to protect a razor-thin lead in the polls against right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsona
BERLIN, Sept 3 (Reuters) – The eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt holds an election on Sunday that could see the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party win power in a German state for the first time. The AfD has been leading in polls, with surveys regularly putting support at over 40%, 10 to 15 p
By Vladimir Soldatkin VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday there was a chance of a peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine, but restarting talks was harder because of Ukrainian attacks on shipping and a call by Kyiv for civilian aircraft to avoi
By James Mackenzie BERLIN, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Voters in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt go to the polls on Sunday in an election where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is hoping to win power for the first time and mark a historic shift in German politics. State Premier Sven Schul
GENEVA, Sept 3 (Reuters) – The El Niño weather phenomenon is set to intensify further into 2027 and could be the strongest ever, raising risks of extreme weather into next year, the World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday. • “If this trajectory continues, it may be stronger than anything
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Some survivors sheltering in relief camps after deadly floods in Nepal were struggling Thursday to obtain essential medicines and cash, even as authorities provided food and other basic supplies to thousands of displaced people. For families who lost homes and relatives, the
