By Ruma Paul DHAKA, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Bangladesh could consider joining the Mecca pact, a mutual defence agreement signed this month between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, a minister said, a move that could complicate its foreign relations, particularly with neighbouring India. Ties have been s
MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Tuesday that remarks by Finnish President Alexander Stubb approving of Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory showed that he, along with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, belonged to the “party of war.” Stubb has backed Ukraine’s long-range strikes d
Aug 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department is preparing to send diplomats back to embassies in the Middle East that were evacuated before and during the war with Iran, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing an internal State Department document. The return of Foreign Service officers and t
Aug 25 (Reuters) – State prosecutors in Armenia on Tuesday detained Robert Kocharyan, a prominent opposition leader and a former president, and formally charged him with a slew of corruption-related offences during his time in office. Armenia’s prosecutor general said in a statement that Kocharyan,
By Greg Torode and Nur-Azna Sanusi HONG KONG, Aug 25 (Reuters) – New installations have been sighted on an islet near Antelope Reef in the Paracels archipelago of the disputed South China Sea where analysts believe China is building its largest military base, according to satellite imagery reviewed
BHUBANESWAR, India, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Police in India’s eastern Bihar state used water cannon and detained dozens of protesters attempting to march on the governor’s residence on Tuesday demanding the cancellation of a civil services recruitment examination over allegations of leaked test question
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Gaza parents have been warned to stop their children flying kites in the war-ravaged enclave, after Israel threatened a forceful response if the Hamas militant group revives a tactic of launching incendiary kites over the border. The popular committees,
PARIS, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A tornado swept through Aude in southern France late on Monday, damaging more than 300 residences and injuring 15 people, said the local administration. Social media footage verified by Reuters showed the tornado swirling above the village of Verzeille in Aude, late on Mond
BERLIN, Aug 25 (Reuters) – German investigators discovered a third drone and suspected explosives linked to this month’s attempted attack on the Leipzig/Halle airport, broadcasters NDR and WDR and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said on Tuesday. The drone was found on August 14, 10 days after the
Aug 25 (Reuters) – The Afipsky oil refinery in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region was on fire following a drone attack, regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on the Telegram messaging app on Tuesday. He added that two people were killed and two others were injured due to falling drone debris on
PALEMBANG, Indonesia (AP) — Authorities in Indonesia’s South Sumatra, the province with the highest number of wildfire hot spots, turned to spiritual measures on Tuesday as huge blazes in central and western regions scorched wide areas of forests and peatland, creating a choking haze that blanketed
By Seher Dareen, Anushree Mukherjee and Robert Harvey LONDON Aug 25 (Reuters) – Almost half the world’s oil comes from countries affected by conflict in 2026, Reuters calculations show, underscoring that current disruptions have eclipsed previous energy crises. Six months ago, U.S. and Israeli attac
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special tribunal in Bangladesh’s capital on Monday asked authorities to keep three journalists jailed until their trial in a case involving a mass uprising that ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from office in 2024, lawyers said. During the student-led uprising, h
By Aditya Kalra and Richa Naidu NEW DELHI/LONDON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A can of Fanta sold in London has 63 calories. Buy the same brand in India, and it contains three times as much sugar. It also includes artificial dye, whose presence in food products in Europe requires a prominent health warning.
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Pakistan and Iran made “significant progress” in talks that focused on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and a path to peace, Pakistan’s interior minister said on Tuesday, at the end of a visit to Tehran. Talks between the two sides focused on measures to prevent further esc
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) – The wife of a U.S. Army sergeant was deported to Honduras on Monday, marking the latest example of the impact of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on relatives of members of the U.S. military. Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo “was remov
SYDNEY, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Labour, New Zealand’s main opposition party, said on Tuesday it would support a ban on social media for under-16s, removing a major obstacle for Prime Minister Christopher Luxon after his coalition partners said they would block the legislation. Luxon on Monday said the pr
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 and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday postponed the trial of the man authorities allege built the bomb that blew New York-bound Pan Am flight 103 out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people in 1988. Jury selection had been sch
BEIJING, Aug 25 (Reuters) – China has proposed adding a dedicated chapter on autonomous vehicles to its Road Traffic Safety Law, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. The draft amendment, submitted to the country’s top legislature for an initial review on Tuesday, defines autonomous driving
TOKYO/TAIPEI, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Medium-strength Typhoon Saudel moved towards southern Japan and northern Taiwan on Tuesday where it is expected to bring heavy rain, as Taiwan reported one dead and four missing from a separate weather system over its south and east. Japan’s weather agency warned of
By Yasmine Ghania and David Lawder CAIRO/WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Iran promised to retaliate against expanded U.S. economic sanctions that the Americans said would cut off Iran’s economic lifeline, with Tehran expressing confidence that major trading partners would resist Washington’s pressure
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has promised to deport thousands of migrants who are in the country without residence permits, mainly Venezuelans, as he attempts to make significant changes to the nation’s immigration policies that he says will reduce crime. De l
By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) – South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke on Monday, and Seoul said they agreed to maintain close communication and cooperation on resolving the North Korean nuclear issue, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Monday two people had been killed in a strike it launched on a vessel in the Eastern Pacific over the weekend, the latest in a series of similar attacks that Washington says target “narco-terrorists” but human rights groups s
By Feras Dalatey DAMASCUS, Aug 24 (Reuters) – The United States removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday, lifting what Damascus says was the last major impediment to investing in the country as Washington deepens ties to the new Syrian government. The removal, posted on t
LONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Britain said on Monday it had signed a partnership with Ukraine to jointly develop artificial intelligence tools for defence and security, giving British researchers access to a Ukrainian battlefield data platform used to train military AI systems. Prime Minister Andy Burn
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 24 (Reuters) – At least 30 people were killed in a gang attack in the neighborhood of Kenscoff near Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, Kenscoff’s mayor Jean Massillon told Reuters on Monday. Kenscoff is a hillside town overlooking Port-au-Prince that has been the site of many gan
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Two United Nations peacekeepers were killed on Monday when armed men ambushed a patrol traveling to a remote area of South Sudan, according to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Others injured in the attack by unidentified people included three peacekeepers, two memb
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Six people who were deported by the United States to Liberia last week resisted getting off the plane and instead were sent to Equatorial Guinea, another African nation that signed a third-country deportation agreement with the Trump administration, a person on the plane and a
