JERUSALEM (AP) — The mother of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed after Israeli forces fired on her family’s car in Gaza City wants an independent inquiry into her death, saying an Israeli military investigation announced this week is insufficient. Wesam Hamada said her daughter Hind Rajab
COPENHAGEN, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Iceland’s referendum on August 29 on whether to open accession talks with the European Union is only the first of several steps in the pro-EU government’s plan to nudge the island nation towards membership. The vote is expected to be a close-fought race, with opinion p
COPENHAGEN/REYKJAVIK, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Gylfi Geirsson and Sigurbjorn Svavarsson cut British fishing trawl wires and dodged Royal Navy frigates on board small Icelandic coastguard vessels 50 years ago, using guerrilla-like tactics to keep foreign fleets out of their waters. Iceland won the series o
KYIV, Aug 21 (Reuters) – At least six people were killed and around 90 wounded on Friday when Russian drones attacked a shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, local authorities said. Six children were among the wounded in the daytime attack on President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s ho
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Ebola outbreak that is spreading at unprecedented speed in Congo has not peaked yet and could be three times the current known size, according to data from authorities and Africa’s top public health agency. It is history’s fastest Ebola outbreak, and the World Health Organi
BERLIN (AP) — A donkey on the loose in northern Germany attacked two motorists by jumping into their van on Friday, kicking and biting them along with a third woman who tried to help restrain the aggressive equine, police said. The incident south of the coastal city of Cuxhaven came to an end as the
By Greg Savoy WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Top trade negotiators from Canada and the U.S. will meet for the third day running in Washington on Friday to try to finalize a trade deal before threatened new American tariffs come into effect on Saturday. A deal could mark a detente in what has been 18
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and six others, including Elton John, have been ordered to pay an initial 9.5 million pounds ($13 million) to the publisher of Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper following their failed invasion of privacy case. In a judgment Friday, Justice Matthew Nicklin said in a written st
By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM, Aug 21 (Reuters) – A man armed with a sword injured several people at a Swedish high school on Friday and one person was later detained, local authorities said. The incident occurred on Friday afternoon at the Brinell high school, which has some 450 students aged 16 to 2
Aug 21 (Reuters) – Nearly 1.9 million children in Somalia are expected to be malnourished this year, with the country seeing a 32% jump in the number of children admitted to facilities with severe acute malnutrition and complications, UNICEF said on Friday. So far, 205 health and nutrition facilitie
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 21 (Reuters) – An Israeli man guarding a group of Jewish settlers who walked onto Palestinian village land on Friday opened fire towards Palestinians who confronted them, killing a 17-year-old and wounding a 70-year-old man, officials said. The incident in the occupied West
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO, Aug 20 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian man suspected of being involved in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline blasts has been placed into pre-trial detention in Croatia pending a decision on his extradition to Germany, court officials said on Friday. The suspect – described as a scub
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Search teams on Friday found the remains of American climber Mallory Geis, the last missing member of a 10-member international mountaineering team that was killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak weeks ago, a mountaineering official and local authorities said. Geis’ remains were found
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The family and opposition party of imprisoned former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday accused authorities of violating a Supreme Court order by taking him to a government hospital for a medical examination instead of a private hospital designated by the court. Khan’s si
LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – A British teenager pleaded guilty on Friday over an arson attack at offices linked to television station Iran International in northwest London earlier this year. Nathan Dunn, 19, pleaded guilty to a charge of “arson being reckless as to whether life is endangered” at Lond
NEW DELHI/DHAKA, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Bangladesh has not made a decision yet on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s visit to India, his press secretary said on Friday, after Indian media reported that Rahman would be visiting New Delhi from August 23-25. The South Asian neighbours have been in talks for w
By Max Hunder KYIV, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Ousted Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov will go to the United States to raise money for new defence technology projects as he seeks new ventures after losing his post, a source close to the former minister told Reuters. Fedorov’s dismissal from the d
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Top ministers for Indonesia and China discussed increasing defense cooperation and strengthening food and energy security between their countries at their meetings Friday in Jakarta. Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono said they aimed to ensure a new bilateral dialogue deli
JAKARTA, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Indonesia has arrested 10 Myanmar nationals in a drug bust involving 2.6 metric tons of liquid methamphetamine found on a ship sailing with a Tanzanian flag, authorities said at a press conference on Friday. Below are the details: • The drugs were found in a water tank an
BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) – China’s military on Friday said it tracked and warned three small Philippine aircraft that “illegally intruded into” airspace over the Scarborough Shoal, a contested feature in the South China Sea, without Beijing’s approval. “The acts of the Philippine side seriously vio
By Siyi Liu and Chen Aizhu SINGAPORE, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Offers of Iranian crude to Chinese buyers have declined and prices have jumped this week as the U.S. blockade has cut Tehran’s shipments, according to trade sources, with the threat of more sanctions from Washington looming. The U.S. re-impose
LONDON (AP) — The royal family’s long-running American soap opera is returning to Britain. The question is whether it will blossom into a happy reunion or descend into anger, division and chaos. Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, plan to return to the United Kingdom from California in a matter of we
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — The U.S. deported more than 160 people to Haiti on Thursday for the first time since the Trump administration won a legal battle to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians. The plane landed in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien because the main intern
SEOUL, Aug 21 (Reuters) – South Korea’s presidential office on Friday called on North Korea to stop “unnecessary slander” and move forward together for peace on the Korean Peninsula, according to South Korean media reports. The remarks were in response to comments by Kim Yo Jong, the influential sis
By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, Aug 21 (Reuters) – A dual Russian-Australian citizen was charged on Friday by the Australian Federal Police of foreign interference for trying to give Ukrainian military information to people he believed were linked to Russian intelligence. The 27-year-old man is due to appea
Aug 20 (Reuters) – Eight people died after a charter plane crashed at a remote military radar site in western Alaska on Thursday, the U.S. military’s Alaskan Command said. A Cessna 441 operated by Anchorage-based air charter company Security Aviation crashed west of Cape Newenham LRRS Airport in Ala
LAHORE, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been moved back to prison from a hospital in Islamabad, a spokesman for his party said on Friday. (Reporting by Mubasher Bukhari; Writing by Hritam Mukherjee; Editing by Tom Hogue) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com
SINGAPORE, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Ship crossings at the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint were down on Thursday from the previous day, initial shipping data showed, amid growing concern over risks to shipping in the Middle East, with US-Iran peace talks remaining in limbo. Thursday’s tally of seven commodity
LHASA, Tibet (AP) — In the high-altitude region of Tibet, people continue to turn to a centuries-old medical system to treat some ailments, often alongside conventional medicine. At the Xizang Autonomous Region Hospital of Tibetan Medicine in Lhasa, the autonomous region’s capital, doctors practice
SYDNEY, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Australian police recovered the body of an 18-year-old hiker overnight from dense bushland in a remote national park near Sydney, authorities said on Friday, more than a week after she went missing. The body was airlifted from the site, and a post-mortem examination will b
