Russia will shutter German cultural centers across the country, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday. The move comes after Berlin blamed Moscow for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport and announced the closure of both the Russian Consulate in Bonn and the Russian House cultural cent
DESSAU, Germany (AP) — Nearly a century after the Nazis shut down the world-famous Bauhaus school of design, it has once again become a cultural battleground between Germany’s establishment and the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has called the art movement an “aberration of modernism
KOROR, Palau (AP) — When stormy seas batter Melekeok state on Palau’s biggest island, the Pacific Ocean floods right into people’s homes. “We keep telling the legislature we need to move inward,” said Bol Sebalt, 43, who was born and raised on the low-lying beachfront. “But because of a shortage of
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court on Thursday dismissed appeals brought by a 94-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal and four others over their convictions for failing to register a now-defunct fund that aimed to help people arrested during anti-government protests in 2019. Cardinal Joseph Zen, a retir
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Nepal will have to rebuild around 20,000 houses in flood-ravaged areas, authorities said on Thursday, even as rescuers search for workers trapped in tunnels linked to hydropower projects and thousands remain missing after last week’s catastrophe. A glaci
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Haseen Alwazeer CAIRO/GAZA, Sept 3 (Reuters) – A group of farmers has been working to preserve Gaza’s native crops by rebuilding a local seed bank that was destroyed during Israel’s war in the enclave and by encouraging Palestinians to cultivate what little viable land they
By Saurabh Sharma and Napat Wesshasartar KATHMANDU, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Sati Sigdel makes daily visits to a hospital wall in Kathmandu blanketed in hundreds of photographs, some of missing relatives, others of retrieved bodies yet to be identified, in desperate hopes of finding news of her cousin. “W
JERUSALEM (AP) — As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks reelection, his main concern these days isn’t his political rivals. It’s some of his biggest supporters. A series of small, pro-Netanyahu parties are competing in the run-up to the Oct. 27 vote. But instead of strengthening the Isra
ROME (AP) — In a country where governments are famously short-lived, the perceived success of Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has often been attributed to her survival skills rather than her accomplishments. On Thursday, after 1,413 days — nearly four years — Meloni’s conservative administration beca
By Joyce Lee SEOUL, Sept 3 (Reuters) – North Korea’s revision of rules governing the Workers’ Party lays the groundwork for more centralised control under the reclusive state’s leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean security institute report said on Thursday. The revisions, adopted at the ruling Workers
HONG KONG, Sept 3 (Reuters) – China’s Ministry of Natural Resources conducted a survey of waters east of Taiwan last month that it said would help it create “one map” for territorial planning and resource management, state broadcaster CCTV said on Thursday. Taiwan’s coast guard said on August 21 tha
By Sarita Chaganti Singh Sept 2 (Reuters) – Nepal plans to rebuild an early-warning system for landslides on part of its border with China, installing seismic sensors, cameras and a satellite link, two Nepali government sources told Reuters, a week after a glacial flood killed more than 1,000. The e
SEOUL, Sept 3 (Reuters) – South Korea’s government said on Thursday it would establish a presidential office in the administrative city of Sejong by August 2029 and relocate about 350 more public institutions from the Seoul metropolitan region, as part of a drive to curb the capital’s dominance. The
By Jekaterina Golubkova Sept 3 (Reuters) – Russia will close Germany’s Goethe-Institut cultural centres, Russian newswires quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Thursday, after Germany blamed Russia for a drone incident at the Leipzig/Halle Airport. Germany’s response measures i
BEIJING, Sept 3 (Reuters) – China warned of flash floods in the southeastern province of Fujian while heavy rain trapped teachers and students in a compound in eastern Zhejiang as storms from Typhoon Saudel lashed several regions, state media said on Thursday. • More than 2,500 teachers and students
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — More than 100 mourners attended funerals Wednesday inside a church where gangs recently executed more than 30 people in an attack that shook the troubled country. The funerals were held for two brothers and three of their cousins at a church in Kenscoff, nestled in the m
SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian Supreme Court justice who sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for a coup attempt is now facing pressure to resign over alleged links to a disgraced banker. Politicians, government ministers, newspapers and legal experts scrutinized Justice A
BEIJING, Sept 3 (Reuters) – China’s Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang told Russian President Vladimir Putin that prospects were “broad and promising” to strengthen cooperation on development in the far east, the official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. The two met on Wednesday on the sidelines of the
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Sept 3 (Reuters) – About 20 million internet-using children across 21 countries were subjected to sexual exploitation or abuse on digital platforms in a single year, with most cases occurring on social media platforms, a new report by the U.N. children’s charity said on
By Nayera Abdallah BEIRUT, Sept 3 (Reuters) – The Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, which is named after a Shi’ite Muslim scholar whose shrine sits at its summit, has become one of the most contested pieces of ground in the Israel-Hezbollah war. The cluster of hills is not especially large. Bu
Sept 3 (Reuters) – A Russian air attack damaged a multi-story residential building in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa early on Thursday, said Serhiy Lysak, the head of its military administration. Eight people were injured in the attack, Lysak added on the Telegram messaging app, while a Reut
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro urged a U.S. judge on Wednesday to dismiss criminal drug trafficking charges against him, arguing he should be immune from prosecution as the head of a sovereign country. The charges, filed in Manhattan federal cour
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department warned that states risk losing billions of dollars in welfare funding if they do not report all immigrants known to state agencies who are in the country illegally, according to a legal opinion relea
Sept 2 (Reuters) – Two Palestinian teenagers were killed on Wednesday in an attack by Israeli settler militants and army troops on their village in the occupied West Bank, local officials and the Palestinian health ministry said, amid an uptick in violence by Jewish settlers in the territory. The Pa
By Nate Raymond Sept 2 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new executive order limiting the number of people eligible for birthright citizenship that President Donald Trump issued after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his previous effort. U.S. D
By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY, Sept 2 (Reuters) – A Mexican musician, his pregnant wife, 3-year-old daughter, a young domestic worker and the family’s pet dog were tied up and shot dead in a gruesome scene at his penthouse in an upscale residential block outside Mexico City. Their 6-year-old son was f
MOSCOW/LONDON/DUBAI, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Russia vowed to head off any disruption to civil aviation on Wednesday after a warning by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that its drones had made Russian airspace dangerous to use. Zelenskiy warned airlines and insurance firms on Tuesday that the pres
VALLETA, Malta (AP) — A jury in Malta on Wednesday acquitted the Maltese businessman accused by prosecutors of being the mastermind of the 2017 car bomb killing of crusading investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, sparking renewed calls for accountability in the Mediterranean island nation.
WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the renewed U.S. campaign against Iran would not continue for “too long” after the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington since July. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Iran was trying to build a r
Trump To Meet Hasidic Leaders Over Israeli Draft Dispute By The Media Line Staff President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Thursday at the White House with several prominent Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders, including figures identified as anti-Zionist or non-Zionist, in talks expected to
