By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump had a warm public reunion on Thursday with Michael Cohen, his former fixer turned foe whose court testimony contributed to Trump’s 2024 conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush-money trial. Cohen, who is seeking a pardon, intervi
GENEVA, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Countries have restored an area roughly twice the size of France under U.N.-backed efforts to reverse land degradation – far short of their own restoration targets – a study by the world’s largest conservation network showed on Friday. • The International Union for Conserv
Former Indian Major General Warns of Turkey-Pakistan-Saudi Pact, Urges Stronger Ties With Iran By The Media Line Staff Retired Indian Maj. Gen. Gagan Deep Bakshi warned that the new defense pact involving Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia poses a concern for India, while arguing that New Delhi shoul
Australia Summons Israeli Ambassador Over IDF Decision Not To Investigate WCK Strike By The Media Line Staff Australia summoned Israel’s ambassador after the Israel Defense Forces decided not to open a criminal investigation into the April 2024 strike that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid work
HONG KONG (AP) — Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung are two prominent Hong Kong activists who helped lead the group behind the city’s massive annual vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. They were charged in 2021 with inciting subversion under Hong Kong’s national security law. The
HONG KONG (AP) — Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were convicted Friday in a national security case brought under a China-imposed law that has effectively crushed the city’s previously thriving pro-democracy movement. Lee Ch
By Jana Choukeir and Susan Heavey DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury chief Scott Bessent said the United States will impose “the toughest sanctions in history” on Iran, a move he suggested would lessen the need for new major military operations. Bessent’s comments on Thursday followe
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has requested to interview FBI officials who were involved in the 2022 search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as part of a wide-ranging probe examining past investigations of the president, four sources fam
By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA, Aug 21 (Reuters) – China and Indonesia’s foreign and defence ministers will meet on Friday, with security, politics and economic issues set to dominate talks, as Jakarta tries to balance ties with both Beijing and Washington amid trade battles and tensions in the South C
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 20 (Reuters) – The compensation agreement with miners BHP, Vale and Samarco for the Mariana dam collapse in 2015 has been joined by 19 new cities, including the one that was the epicenter of the disaster, a Brazilian court said on Thursday. As a result, the deal, signed and ratif
CEUTA, Spain (AP) — For weeks, migrants in the Spanish territory of Ceuta had gathered on a beach away from the city center, sleeping on cardboard sheets, under reed huts and guarding their few possessions in tattered plastic bags. They were gone by Thursday morning after Spanish police escorted the
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The United States has deported nearly 2,300 Mexicans to Guatemala this year and sent at least dozens more to Honduras, according to official data, a shift from the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term when such transfers were minimal. Until now, Mexicans depor
Lapid Lays Out 6-Point Plan To Rebuild Israel’s Foreign Relations By Gabriel Colodro / The Media Line Former Prime Minister Yair Lapid laid out six foreign policy priorities for a future Together (B’Yachad) government at the party’s National Security Conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, arguing that
Bennett Unveils ‘New Security Concept,’ Vows Full Military Drat, Tougher Approach to Iran, Qatar and Hamas By The Media Line Staff Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett declared that Israel’s current security policy remains trapped in an “October 6” reality and announced that the Beyachad party woul
By Ariba Shahid and Mubasher Bukhari Aug 21 (Reuters) – Jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was transferred to a hospital in Islamabad early on Friday for medical examination, his party said, fulfilling a long-standing demand by supporters who say his health has deteriorated during mor
TUNIS, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Activists and opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied took to the streets of Tunis on Thursday, calling for his departure and the restoration of democracy in the latest protest against his governance amid growing political and economic discontent. Hundreds of protesters
BELGRADE, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Serbia will hold snap parliamentary elections on October 18 or 25, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday, more than a month after he pledged at his party rally to schedule them. “The parliamentary elections will be held on October 18 or 25. The exact date will be k
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — President Paul Biya returned Thursday to Cameroon after staying abroad for more than two months, which had raised concerns about the 93-year-old leader’s health and a possible power vacuum in the Central African country. Biya arrived at the international airport in the capit
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A senior Pakistani Cabinet minister said Thursday the government could consider allowing imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan to receive treatment at a private hospital or abroad if adequate care is unavailable at a government facility, while pledging to comply with a Supreme
SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) — A boat capsized Thursday in a river in Nigeria ’s northwestern Sokoto state, leaving at least 47 people dead, officials and residents said. The boat was carrying more than 80 people, most of whom were heading to farms for work in Gorau town in the Goronyo local government area
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) – The United States will on Thursday issue fresh sanctions targeting Lebanon’s Hezbollah, including re-designating it under a terrorism authority, according to a statement seen by Reuters, in a move aimed at emphasizing its links to the Iranian government. While Hezbolla
By Dan Peleschuk KYIV, Aug 20 (Reuters) – A bid by ousted Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov to broaden a political fight with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy by calling for wartime elections appears to have backfired, failing to win over protesters who had demanded his return. Zelenskiy’s de
By Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Nathan Cofnas, the U.S. academic who raised plagiarism concerns over the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday, said on Thursday he had been suspended by Belgium’s Ghent University and was under investigation for discrimination. Arday, once hailed as Cambr
LOMÉ, Togo (AP) — Two French documentary filmmakers and their Togolese fixer have been jailed in Togo after more than three weeks in custody in the West African nation, an advocacy group said Thursday, amid strained relations between the government and French media. Reporters Without Borders said th
Aug 20 (Reuters) – The United States will impose “the toughest sanctions in history” on Iran, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday as he urged Beijing to cooperate with Washington. Bessent said he would hold a press conference on Monday to discuss details. “It is a one-two punch. W
By Gwladys Fouche OSLO, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Norway expanded on Thursday a recently created military brigade headquartered in the Arctic, the latest move by a NATO nation to boost its defence footprint in the wake of the Ukraine war. The NATO member established the Finnmark Brigade last year, forming
By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Guatemala has received around 2,300 Mexicans deported from the U.S. so far in 2026, President Bernardo Arevalo said in an interview aired late on Wednesday, saying they arrived alongside Guatemalans and were quickly transferred back to Mexico. The r
BOGOTA, Aug 20 (Reuters) – A slope collapsed at an open-pit mine in Policarpa, in Colombia’s southwestern Narino department, killing 13 workers and injuring seven, local authorities said. Officials said the accident was caused by a landslide rather than an explosion as initially reported, and rescue
Aug 20 (Reuters) – At least 40 bodies, mostly of children, have been recovered after an overloaded boat capsized in Nigeria’s northwest Sokoto state, local officials and residents said on Thursday. The accident happened near Gorau in Goronyo local government area and rescue efforts are continuing, s
DUBAI, Aug 20 (Reuters) – A threat by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose unprecedented economic warfare and isolation on Iran could have implications for countries that trade with it. Trump warned of economic consequences for any country that supports Iran. Here are some of Iran’s main trading pa
