By Sarah Morland Aug 26 (Reuters) – A night of terror in Haiti’s hillside town of Kenscoff – which has faced more than a dozen attacks since last year – has shocked the nation even as Haiti prepares to hold its first election in a decade and foreign nations backed by the United Nations promise to le
By Lili Bayer, Humeyra Pamuk and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Senior European diplomats will seek to reassure the Pentagon’s policy chief on Thursday that they are stepping up on defence amid uncertainty about a U.S. review of forces in Europe and concern about Russia, offi
By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Dolly Parton, the trailblazing country music icon, songwriter and actress who died on Tuesday at age 80, was so much more to millions around the world. She was a symbol of generosity, whose philanthropic work spanned literacy, disaster relief, med
BEIJING, Aug 26 (Reuters) – China and India reaffirmed their commitment to maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas as they seek “fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement,” China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday after high-level boundary talks in Beijing. • The two sides agr
By Will Dunham Aug 26 (Reuters) – Tim Curry, the baritone-voiced British actor who pranced to movie fame as a singing, lingerie-clad “sweet transvestite” in the 1975 cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” has died at the age of 80, his manager said on Wednesday. A cause of death was not immed
By Sarita Chaganti Singh and Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI, Aug 26 (Reuters) – A deadly flash flood near Nepal’s border with Tibet on Wednesday may have been triggered when the lower part of a glacier broke off and crashed on to the valley floor hundreds of metres below, experts said citing satellite imager
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Tom Byabagamba, a former commander of President Paul Kagame’s elite presidential guard who later was convicted of inciting insurrection, has died in prison after spending a dozen years behind bars, his brother said. He was 59. Byabagamba, who held the rank of colonel before he
By Maria Cheng OTTAWA, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mark Carney has the support of most Canadians after breaking off trade talks with the U.S., but widespread approval of his pushback against U.S. President Donald Trump could disappear within months as the consequences of the trade war sink in.
By Bo Erickson and David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that it was “time to teach Canada you can’t do this anymore,” just days after trade talks between the neighboring countries broke down. “I had a deal, that was a pretty good deal, you kno
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Nepali labourer Bibek Kumal was digging a toilet pit outside a newly built house on Wednesday when a wall of water, mud and rock came roaring down, sweeping him and everything near him away. Kumal, 24, was working in Bidur, downstream from the worst-hit
By Dan Peleschuk and Yuliia Dysa KYIV, Aug 26 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has appointed two of Ukraine’s most prominent commanders to oversee the defence of the country’s eastern strongholds, as Kyiv struggles to beat back a Russian onslaught on a region at the centre of stalled peace
WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on the Palestine Action group, designating it a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, according to a notice posted on a Treasury Department website. The United Kingdom previously banned Palestine Action as a terrorist o
MOSCOW/WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – U.S. CIA Director John Ratcliffe spoke with Russian intelligence officials during a visit to Moscow but did not meet President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Wednesday of a trip that U.S. President Donald Trump described as “semi-routine.” Kremlin spokesman
By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – The United States said Wednesday that it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins at the U.S. Justice Department, NASA, the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Senate, and other sensitive government agencies. In a statem
MOSCOW, Aug 26 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Wednesday that remarks by ousted Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov about official corruption and alleged shortcomings in military strategy showed that Kyiv was consumed by intensifying political infighting. Fedorov told Reuters this week that
LONDON (AP) — An inquest opened Wednesday into the sudden death earlier this month of Jason Arday, a Cambridge University professor who faced a storm of plagiarism accusations. Arday, 41, who became Cambridge’s youngest Black professor in 2023, was found dead at an address in south London on Aug. 13
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan arrived in the United Kingdom on Wednesday, as they make a fresh start in Britain after six years in the United States, U.K. media reported. The news comes less than a week after the couple surprised fans and critics alike with plans to return to Britai
TOKYO (AP) — The president of the International Criminal Court said Wednesday there is no reason she has to face U.S. sanctions, adding that she is asking Japan’s government to work with Washington to avoid further escalating tensions. Last week Tomoko Akane, a Japanese national, became the latest c
The Kremlin said Wednesday that CIA Director John Ratcliffe held talks in Moscow with his intelligence counterparts, a rare and secretive visit at a time when relations with Washington remain strained over Russia’s war in Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Ratcliffe did not meet with Russ
LONDON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla will carry out a week-long tour of Caribbean nations later this year, visiting Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas and Guyana, Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday. The main reason for the trip will be for the royals to attend the Common
Aug 26 (Reuters) – Slovakia’s government approved a bill on Wednesday proposing a ban on use of social networks by children under 16, saying it would help prevent addictive behaviour, social pressure and radicalisation. The law, if approved by parliament, will ban setting up social network accounts
Iran won’t allow military vessels to transit through the Strait of Hormuz under an agreement that the Islamic Republic is negotiating with Oman, Iran’s deputy foreign minister said. The top diplomats of the two countries met to discuss managing commercial shipping traffic in the vital waterway, whic
Aug 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said it has “significant concerns” over the case of Chinese artist Gao Zhen, who was sentenced to three years in prison by a Chinese court on Tuesday over dissident artworks, and said its diplomats were refused entry to the sentencing hearing. “We have si
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Tanzania’s vice president is resigning after less than a year in office, following what analysts say was a power struggle with the country’s first female leader. Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi offered to vacate the office on Sept. 4, according to a statement released on Tuesd
By Leigh Thomas PARIS, Aug 26 (Reuters) – France’s political class has been roiled in recent years by its attempts to rein in the country’s increasingly heavy debt load. Far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon has a simple but highly divisive idea: cancel it. Melenchon, of the France Unbo
Aug 26 (Reuters) – When Dolly Parton tribute artist Brooke McMullen woke up to messages about the death of the country music star, she thought it was a hoax. Dolly could never die. Parton was “one of those people that you just think is going to be around forever,” McMullen said from Brisbane, Austra
By Kiyoshi Takenaka, Anton Bridge and John Geddie TOKYO, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Japan should try to counter U.S. efforts to pressure members of the International Criminal Court to quit the body, the Japanese head of the court said on Wednesday, adding that Tokyo’s support was pivotal to ensuring the ICC
Aug 26 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has bestowed one of Ukraine’s top state honours on SpaceX owner Elon Musk as Kyiv seeks to expand use of the company’s Starlink terminals, which provide battlefield communications for Ukrainian forces. Under a presidential decree published on the pres
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A fire killed 14 newborns in a nursery at a major government hospital in Pakistan’s capital early Wednesday, according to hospital officials and the government, which already has launched an investigation. The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad housed at least 15 ne
BEIJING, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, as part of a state visit there and then to Egypt from August 30 to September 3, China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. At the Bishkek summit, Xi will d
