BANGKOK (AP) — The buzziest film in China this year was shot almost entirely in a southern Chinese dialect that most Chinese viewers need subtitles to understand. Yet “Dear You” has become China’s second-highest-grossing film of the year. Now it is heading overseas, part of a broader wave of Chinese
By Kanishka Singh and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A Nicaraguan immigrant taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents while his son, a U.S. Navy sailor, was deployed at sea aboard an aircraft carrier during the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, was freed from detention, his family said on
By Yomna Ehab CAIRO, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Iran said it had restarted talks with neighbor Oman to manage the Strait of Hormuz as it faces heightened economic pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump in the wider conflict. Iran and Oman have been in on-and-off talks for weeks about controlling traffic
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Tuesday four people were killed in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, the latest in a series of attacks that Washington says target “narco-terrorists” but human rights groups condemn as extrajudicial killings. FURTHER
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration has issued a pause on visa appointments for applicants around the world during an ongoing immigration crackdown by the U.S. government in the Republican leader’s second term in the White House. A U.S. State Depa
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has sent Congress a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia on civil nuclear energy while insisting the pact will only go into effect if the kingdom normalizes relations with Israel, a U.S. administration official told Reuters on
LA PAZ, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz appointed Christian Morales as economy and public finance minister on Tuesday, signaling policy continuity as his government seeks to stabilize the crisis-hit economy, secure foreign financing and push reforms through Congress. Morales, who s
By Michael Georgy DUBAI, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Iraq could serve as an example of how the United States could carry out its threat to force countries that continue trading with Iran out of the dollar-based financial system. Washington has already sanctioned a host of Iraqi banks accused of doing busines
DAMASCUS, Aug 25 (Reuters) – The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces has been dissolved, the armed militant group’s leader said on Tuesday, a major step in the integration plan agreed on earlier this year with the Islamist-led government in Damascus. “We announce today the end of the mission of the
WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A U.S. military service member who called for President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance to be impeached is facing charges under the military justice system, his lawyer and the Air Force said on Tuesday. The active-duty officer, Major Jason Watson, denounced Tr
NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers searching for 22 missing sailors have found no trace of their Panama-flagged cargo ship after the vessel sank in the Bay of Bengal last week, the Indian Coast Guard said Tuesday. Search aircraft and ships on Tuesday were scouring the area where the cargo ship MV Ocean Winne
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 47 people were killed and more than 50 others kidnapped when armed men attacked a once-peaceful community near Haiti’s capital earlier this week, the United Nations said Tuesday. It is believed to be one of the largest mass kidnappings in Haiti in recent years,
TRIPOLI, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Libya’s security authorities recovered the bodies of at least six migrants in the southeast of the country after their vehicle broke down in the desert, the Alwahat Security Directorate said in a statement on Tuesday. The Directorate said the bodies were recovered in a de
By Max Hunder KYIV, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Ukraine appears to be slowly losing the war against Russia, ousted Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov told Reuters, warning that Kyiv has a window of several months to make key decisions needed to turn the tide in its favour. Fedorov, a young reformer whose dism
MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) – The Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that its forces had struck three cargo vessels carrying supplies for the Ukrainian military and a tanker at the Black Sea port of Pivdennyi. The ministry also said it had hit another cargo vessel in the nearby port of Odesa, as
COPENHAGEN, Aug 25 (Reuters) – The gap between Sweden’s ruling right-wing coalition government and the centre-left opposition parties has narrowed since June ahead of an election for parliament next month, a new opinion poll showed on Tuesday. The August 11 to 23 survey, published by daily Dagens Ny
BEIJING, Aug 25 (Reuters) – China and India agreed on Tuesday to continue dialogue and seek a “fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement” of their border issue after talks between senior diplomats in Beijing. The world’s two most populous nations, both nuclear powers, share a roughly 3,800
WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – U.S. CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Russia to attended meetings in Moscow on Tuesday, U.S. media outlets reported citing unnamed sources. CBS News and Axios both reported the visit by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former director of national intelligence who n
FRANKFURT, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian man detained in Romania for setting up a stash of guns and ammunition near Berlin is suspected by investigators of being part of a Russian-controlled agent network, Spiegel magazine reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. Germany’s interior minister sai
By Mai Shams El-Din and Menna AlaaElDin CAIRO, Aug 25 (Reuters) – As Egypt’s new academic year approaches, Amal Abdel Hameed is hopeful her daughter will be able to enroll officially in school for the first time since she was born as a result of a rape nearly eight years ago. Under Egyptian law, Abd
LAGOS, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Nigerian President Bola Tinubu ordered the military and other security agencies on Tuesday to launch an immediate rescue operation after scores of people were kidnapped by gunmen in north-central Niger State last week. An armed group posted a video on Facebook and WhatsApp
NEW DELHI, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Indian authorities have recovered an emergency beacon and located a lifeboat associated with a Panama-flagged ship that sank in the Bay of Bengal last week, but no survivors were found, the coastguard said on Tuesday. Additional assets were being deployed to the search
Aug 25 (Reuters) – Police have thwarted a planned arson attack on a factory producing unmanned aerial systems in eastern Slovakia and detained three foreigners suspected in the attempt, police said on Facebook on Tuesday. Two suspects were detained in Slovakia and one in Germany, police said. There
MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A U.S. military transport plane landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport on Tuesday, data from the flight tracking service Flightradar24 showed. The large Boeing Globemaster with the U.S. registered tail number 07-7181 had flown direct from Riga, in Latvia, and landed in Moscow
By Laurie Chen BEIJING, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen, known for making satirical sculptures of former leader Mao Zedong, was handed the maximum three-year sentence for “defaming national heroes and martyrs” by a Chinese court on Tuesday, his wife and a rights group said. New
ISTANBUL (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday criticized Turkey’s courts over the imprisonment of prominent philanthropist Osman Kavala, saying it highlighted a “systemic problem” that was “marked by the detention and prosecution of political opponents, human-rights defenders and jou
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s foreign ministry has filed a criminal complaint with prosecutors over what it says was possible fraud related to the previous government’s purchase of ventilators worth some $965 million during the COVID-19 pandemic, Foreign Minister Anita Orbán said Tuesday. Hunga
LONDON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced what his department called “an economic onslaught” against Iran on Monday that combined new sanctions with threats against Tehran’s trading partners. His statement stopped short of some of the most punishing sanctions and did
MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A senior Vatican official urged an end to the Ukraine war after meeting in Moscow on Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the first in-person talks between Vatican and Russian officials in five years. Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minis
BANGKOK, Aug 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln will dock in Thailand next week, a Thai official said on Tuesday, following a prolonged deployment in the Middle East and reports of mental health concerns and deteriorating conditions aboard. The Lincoln, which left the M
