BELGRADE/AMSTERDAM, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of at least 8,000 Muslims in a U.N.-designated “safe area” of Bosnia, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two, died on Thursday, his lawyer said. Here are some of the reactions to his d
MBABANE, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Eswatini said on Thursday it had received two more third-country nationals deported from the United States under a bilateral agreement between the two countries. The government statement did not give the nationalities of the individuals, but said that they were Latin Amer
A Russian serviceman was killed by a car bomb Thursday, officials said, the latest in a string of deadly blasts targeting military personnel and others linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The man was killed and his wife was injured when their car exploded in the Pushkinsky suburb on the outskirts of
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has charged more than 80 people in the takedown of a violent Puerto Rican gang, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Thursday during a visit to the island as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to highlight its push to tackle violent
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attack a NATO country, and he played down media reports that CIA Director John Ratcliffe warned Russian officials against such an attack earlier in the week. “H
By Dmitry Antonov and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Russia warned on Thursday that it could strike British military targets inside and outside Ukraine in response to Ukrainian attacks on targets inside Russia using long-range British cruise missiles. The warning, delivered by Russian Fore
Aug 27 (Reuters) – A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck China’s Tibet region late on Thursday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. • The quake was at a depth of 10 km in northern Tibet, GFZ said. • The epicentre was hundreds of miles north of the regions of Nepal and China that were
By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS, Aug 27 (Reuters) – The Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden called on Thursday for the European Union to reopen discussion next week on using Russia’s frozen assets for Ukraine as Moscow shows no signs of wanting to end its war there. In a letter seen by Reuters, forei
Aug 27 (Reuters) – Quebec will hold an election on October 5, with polls showing that the next government is likely to be formed by separatists who want independence for the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province — but not while U.S. President Donald Trump is in office. Premier Christine Fr
BRUSSELS, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Poland does not want to have nuclear warheads on its territory, Deputy Defence Minister Pawel Zalewski said on Thursday. “No — that is what I would like to say very clearly and openly. Poland does not want to have nuclear warheads on its territory,” Zalewski told reporte
By Leigh Thomas and Ingrid Melander PARIS, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Far-right leader Marine Le Pen sought to woo France’s business leaders on Thursday, pledging during a first presidential debate with key rivals to put public finances back on track if she wins power next year. The debate, organised by Fra
TRISHULI, Nepal / BEIJING, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Nepal and China both warned on Thursday of fresh risks of flooding in the Himalayas as two lakes that have developed on either side of their border threaten to burst in a region still grappling with this week’s catastrophic flood. Search and rescue opera
CAIRO, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said. Medics said an Israeli airstrike killed one person near Qarara town in the southern Gaza Strip, and another killed a man at a house in the Beach refugee camp in Gaza Cit
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces rained shells and snipers’ bullets on Sarajevo and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, has died while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84. U.N. court offici
FRANKFURT, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Two people were killed at school in the town of Gosen-Neu Zittau near Berlin and a suspect has been detained, local newspaper Maerkische Allgemeine reported on Thursday. (Reporting by Ludwig Burger, editing by Friederike Heine) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com
PERTH, Australia (AP) — British social media celebrity and rapper Yung Filly can return to Britain before he stands trial in Australia next year on charges of raping a fan, a judge ruled on Thursday. The 31-year-old Columbian-born entertainer, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, wa
By Simon Lewis, Trevor Hunnicutt, Idrees Ali and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Six months after the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, the war that President Donald Trump has called a “little excursion” has become a deeply unpopular stalemate that threatens to derail
Aug 27 (Reuters) – Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of at least 8,000 Muslims in a U.N.-designated “safe area” of Bosnia, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two, has died, a U.N. official said on Thursday. The slaughter in Srebrenica was the grisly culmina
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Malaysia said on Thursday that it has finalised the first phase of a voluntary repatriation programme that will see some 1,500 Myanmar refugees return home. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim previously stated that Myanmar had agreed to repatriate 5,000 ethnic Rohingya ref
BELGRADE, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who was serving a life sentence for genocide in the bloody 1992-95 war in Bosnia, has died in the United Nations detention centre in The Hague, Belgrade’s Informer TV reported on Thursday. (Reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic; editing by Ba
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court judge acquitted a man accused of attacking a Catholic nun based on his insanity defense, but ordered him committed to psychiatric hospitalization for up to six years. The violent assault in April on a nun walking in her habit in Jerusalem’s Old City se
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia bombarded cities across Ukraine with missiles and drones in an overnight onslaught that ran into the daylight of hours Thursday, when explosions echoed around Kyiv through the morning. Ukraine is desperately short of U.S.-made Patriot air defense missiles that can counter
By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Indonesia stepped up security around parliament in the capital Jakarta and in other major cities on Thursday as demonstrators gathered for rallies, a year after a wave of violent anti-government protests erupted across the country. Thousands of students
By Jan Lopatka Aug 27 (Reuters) – An arson attack planned by three suspects in eastern Slovakia targeted the drone maker Skyeton, the Slovak prosecution said on Thursday. The company produces intelligence gathering and targeting drones and has a facility in eastern Slovakia, according to its website
Report: Iran Targeted Yair Netanyahu in South Florida Assassination Plot By The Media Line Staff An alleged Iranian operation targeted Yair Netanyahu for assassination while he lived in South Florida, according to a US media report published Wednesday that said Israeli intelligence discovered the pl
SEOUL, Aug 27 (Reuters) – South Korea’s media regulator said on Thursday Meta’s measures to better protect young users from potentially addictive social media features should ideally be applied to young users worldwide, rather than just in specific markets. The Korea Media and Communications Commiss
WARSAW, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Poland’s Minister of Digital Affairs said on Wednesday that he had asked the European Commission to impose a €250 million ($291.30 million) fine on Meta. “I also call on Meta to immediately introduce effective tools to eliminate scams, false advertising, and the promotion
By Leigh Thomas PARIS, Aug 27 (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu’s minority government faces a particularly treacherous budget season as opposition parties dig in for a fight over his deficit-cutting plans before an April-May presidential election. Here’s how the budget battle could
By Kyu-seok Shim and Joyce Lee SEOUL, Aug 27 (Reuters) – North Korea’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday denounced a U.S. decision to approve the sale of missiles and related equipment to South Korea, vowing to respond “strongly and immediately” to hostile acts in various areas, state media KCNA reported
PARIS, Aug 27 (Reuters) – A car deliberately rammed into a group of pedestrians who were standing in front of the train station of Caen, in northern France, on Wednesday evening killing one and injuring 10, local authorities said. “The toll is heavy as we have one death, seven people in critical con
