By Leigh Thomas and Stefano Rebaudo PARIS, Aug 27 (Reuters) – France faces a particularly perilous annual budget battle in the coming months as political parties jockey for position ahead of next spring’s presidential election while increasingly anxious investors look for evidence Paris can regain c
LONDON (AP) — Britons who saw Professor Jason Arday’s life and death dissected by weeks of headlines covering allegations about his academic qualifications and personal accomplishments can now read his version of the story. Simon & Schuster will on Thursday publish Arday’s memoir “Great and Unfortun
ILION, Greece (AP) — For the careless and despairing alike, there’s a special day on the Orthodox Christian calendar to provide relief — with the help of some orange-flavored cake. Thousands of pilgrims on Wednesday night gathered at the Church of St. Fanourios, 10 kilometers (6 miles) northwest of
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) – A Pentagon review of U.S. troop deployments in Europe will create at least four sets of options for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by November 6, well ahead of a December deadline for the review’s completion, according to a document seen by Reuters. NAT
Aug 26 (Reuters) – The Cook Islands’ Mark Brown looks set to stay as prime minister of the island nation after official election results on Wednesday showed his Cook Island Party won 13 of parliament’s 24 seats to clinch a fifth term. • The results showed four seats won by the Cook Islands United Pa
NEW DELHI, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Countries and organisations around the world have begun sending cash, relief supplies and other assistance to Nepal as it responds to the aftermath of a devastating flash flood that killed more than 160 people and left hundreds missing. So far, here is a list of aid and
Aug 27 (Reuters) – More than 400 foreigners were among the 579 tourists missing after a catastrophic flood in the Himalayan nation of Nepal, tourism officials said. Here is a list of the nationalities of tourists who have been determined to be missing: INDIA: At least 130 to 133 Indians were reporte
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who splashed her signature polka dots on paintings, sculptures and museum installations around the world, has died, her studio said Thursday. She was 97. Kusama died Aug. 14 at a hospital in Tokyo, Yayoi Kusama Studio said. “She continued to paint until her
DEVIGHAT, Nepal (AP) — Rescue teams searched on Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic and deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse. The disaster left 168 people dead and more than
By Steve Gorman Aug 26 (Reuters) – A U.S. Air Force judge on Wednesday ordered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, and three co-defendants to go on trial before a military tribunal in June 2028. The trial-scheduling order entered by
SINGAPORE, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Shipping traffic at the Strait of Hormuz rose slightly even as a geopolitical standoff persisted between the United States and Iran, while the market also monitored Iran-Oman talks about the waterway, data showed on Thursday. Visible commodity vessel transits at Hormuz
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Former Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob was charged on Thursday with failure to declare assets, the third former premier prosecuted in recent years over alleged graft-related offences. Ismail Sabri, who was Malaysia’s prime minister for just over 15 month
TOKYO, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, who transformed hallucinations into art and was known for her obsessive dot-covered paintings and pumpkin motifs, has died at the age of 97. The announcement made on her official website said she died on August 14 but did not give a
Aug 27 (Reuters) – Explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, a Reuters witness said, as Russia was hitting Ukraine with drones and missiles in the early hours of Thursday. Kyiv authorities, who earlier issued a drone attack alert, said on Telegram that debris had fallen in the courtyar
By Gopal Sharma, Sahana Bajracharya and Navesh Chitrakar TRISHULI, Nepal/BEIJING, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Rescuers in Nepal used helicopters on Thursday to scour for hundreds still missing after a wall of mud and rock collapsed into a river on the Himalayan border with China’s Tibet, sending catastrophic
WELLINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea’s autonomous region of Bougainville moved a step closer to possible independence on Thursday as the country’s parliament prepared to consider the results of a non-binding referendum in which voters overwhelmingly backed secession. Residents of Bougainv
By Yomna Ehab and Parisa Hafezi CAIRO/DUBAI, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Qatar’s prime minister will visit Tehran on Thursday in an effort to relaunch diplomacy after the U.S. and Iran traded recriminations over Washington’s promise to increase economic pressure on Tehran by targeting its trade partners for
TUNIS, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Twelve people were killed in wildfires that swept through several Algerian provinces, Interior Minister Said Sayoud said late on Wednesday, amid a severe heatwave gripping North Africa. The fatalities included five people in Jijel province, four in Bejaia and three in Tizi
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Peruvian court on Monday evening convicted four men of murder-for-hire and sentenced them to between 15 and 35 years in prison for the 2023 killing of Indigenous rainforest defender Quinto Inuma Alvarado, in a closely watched case seen as a test of accountability for violen
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – A U.S. panel on religious freedom has expressed concern about a visit to the U.S. by the chief of the Hindu nationalist group that is the ideological parent of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and urged sanctions on the group’s members. Mo
QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Kurds in Syria’s northeast regarded the announcement that the Kurdish-led force that once controlled the area has been dissolved with mixed emotions, while international players with a stake in Syria welcomed the step. Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democrat
By Tim Hepher PARIS, Aug 26 (Reuters) – France is assessing the possibility of attacks against its essential companies and infrastructure after an apparent drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport earlier this month, the country’s top domestic intelligence official said on Wednesday. On August 4, an ex
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will address the European Parliament next month, a high-profile visit that underscores Canada’s push to deepen ties with Europe after a sharp break with U.S. President Donald Trump as their trade war escalates. A statement from Carney’s office Wedne
GDANSK, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Australia in December became the world’s first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet’s YouTube and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook. Meta will pay up to $18 billion to resolve claims by U.S. states that Face
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Wait. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s war chief, holding a puppy? Yes, and it’s no accident. In a collision of dog lovers, sports and ongoing war with Russia, the Ukrainian president on Tuesday was captured on video as never before — cuddling and cooing over a floppy, t
BEIJING (AP) — A robot sprinter broke another 100-meter record on Wednesday at a showcase of China’s growing technological prowess. The record ended China’s five-day World Humanoid Robot Games, in its second year in Beijing, in which more than 2,000 humanoid robots competed in Olympics-style events
PARIS, Aug 26 (Reuters) – French far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon is seen as the possible rival to far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in next year’s presidential run-off, a second poll showed this week, stressing the electorate’s growing polarisation as Emmanuel Macron’s era ends. • Melenchon, the
By Ben Ezeamalu LAGOS, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Nigerian kidnappers have collected nearly $5.8 million in ransom payments in the last year from civilian abductions, crime that is crippling education and eroding public trust in the government, a security consultancy said on Wednesday. Nigeria’s SBM Intelli
By Rodrigo Campos and Paula Laier NEW YORK/SAO PAULO, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Brazil’s October election offers voters yet another stark left-versus-right choice, but investors see less difference on the fiscal front with debt likely to keep rising under either candidate. Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of far-
OSLO, Norway (AP) — A pro-Russian hacker group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that has affected multiple Norwegian government digital services over the past three days. The cyberattack has been ongoing since Monday, said Are Kvistad, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Digitaliza
