BANGKOK, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Thai schools conducted active shooter drills on Wednesday, as authorities moved to strengthen security measures two weeks after a 14-year-old opened fire at a school and killed at least eight people. At the Surasamontree School in Bangkok, students took part in a “run, hi
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya has tripled its long-term target for expanding its renewable energy capacity to meet surging demand and support its industrialization, but that might not result in more affordable power for consumers. The plan calls for renewable power generating capacity of 5,500 megawat
BEIJING, Aug 19 (Reuters) – China on Wednesday urged respect for each country’s digital sovereignty, after a report the U.S. would ask countries to choose sides in the artificial intelligence race with Beijing. China is opposed to taking sides and forming camps on AI, its foreign ministry spokespers
By Bhagya Ayyavoo NEW DELHI, Aug 19 (Reuters) – For Ukrainian shuttlers Polina Buhrova and Yevheniia Kantemyr, competing at the ongoing World Championships in New Delhi is a way to showcase the resilience of a country battling the invasion by Russia. Lives have been turned upside down since Russia l
By Feras Dalatey DAMASCUS, Aug 19 – Syrian security forces have arrested a former Assad-era security officer who fled Austria after being sentenced to eight years in prison for abusing detainees and returned to his hometown in southern Syria, state news agency SANA said on Tuesday night. Lieutenant
TOKYO, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Japan’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that U.S. sanctions on the International Criminal Court and its president, Judge Tomoko Akane, were “very unfortunate.” In a statement, the ministry said: “Japan has consistently supported the ICC … in its efforts to prosecute and
By Chiranjit Ojha KAINAKARY, India, Aug 19 (Reuters) – This weekend around 20 wooden boats, 100-foot long and powered by about 100 rowers each, will slice through Kerala’s backwaters to compete for the most prestigious trophy in the centuries-old sport of “vallam kali”, or snake boat racing. Thousan
HONG KONG (AP) — Shares of Unitree, one of China’s largest humanoid robot makers, initially soared as much as 629% in its public stock trading debut Wednesday in Shanghai, in the latest highlight of investor optimism over China’s technological advances. The company, founded in 2016 by entrepreneur W
SYDNEY (AP) — Five Australian rules footballers have been banned for the remainder of the AFL season by the Sydney Swans for breaching player codes of conduct during a stay at a Melbourne hotel that has led to a police investigation into allegations of sexual assault. The Swans issued a statement We
By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Thailand is ready to shift its approach to a slow-burn insurgency in its Muslim-majority deep south and revitalise a peace process, Bangkok’s chief negotiator said, as violence simmers in one of Southeast Asia’s longest-running conflicts. Any such move
By Hamza Ibrahim and Ahmed Kingimi KANO,Nigeria, Aug 18 (Reuters) – At least 25 people were killed in an overnight attack on a village in Nigeria’s central Plateau state, local officials and residents said on Tuesday, in violence that has heightened fears of violent reprisals in the restive region.
Waves of Ukrainian drones targeted the massive logistics center outside Moscow overnight. The next morning, it was still ablaze, dark smoke rising into the sky from what was one of Russia’s largest retail warehouses. Hundreds of miles away, Ukrainian drone crews had barely paused after the night’s w
SEOUL, Aug 19 (Reuters) – South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s order to curb joint military drills appeared aimed in part at pressuring Seoul to support U.S. efforts in the Iran war, alongside other unresolved issues such as investment. “I think
By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo and Camillus Eboh ABUJA, Aug 19 (Reuters) – As campaigning for January’s elections begins on Wednesday, President Bola Tinubu’s pitch for a second term faces a politically fraught question: are Nigerians better off after more than a decade of rule by his All Progressives Congre
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Triple-murderer Erin Patterson appealed her convictions Wednesday for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms. Three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal are hearing her appeal over two days against her convictions on three cou
By Emma Farge GENEVA, Aug 19 (Reuters) – A record number of humanitarian workers were attacked last year, driven partly by increased use of armed drones, the United Nations said on Wednesday, calling the trend “appalling”. Some 907 aid workers were killed, injured or kidnapped in 2025 versus 833 the
Aug 19 (Reuters) – At least nine people were killed, including a child, in a fire at a hotel in India’s eastern city of Kolkata on Wednesday, local police said. • The fire broke out at around 2:50 a.m. local time on the second floor of the hotel building and was brought under control within an hour,
SINGAPORE, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed, data showed on Wednesday, as most shipowners avoided the key waterway because of a lack of clear signalling on its reopening from a blockade during the Iran war. Six commodity vessels crossed the strait on Tuesday, Kpler dat
(This August 18 story has been repeated with no changes to the text.) By Nate Raymond Aug 18 (Reuters) – A former adviser to infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to grant research funding
BEIJING (AP) — It is said that Empress Dowager Cixi once dreamed of a pastry during the final decades of imperial China. The same treat was served to her at breakfast the following morning. Delighted, she summoned her chef and rewarded him with a silver ingot. “It was originally called ‘minced pork
HANOI, Aug 19 (Reuters) – A former Vietnamese politician unintentionally killed a teenager in a traffic accident in central Hanoi last year but was exempted from criminal prosecution, a police officer told state television, shedding light for the first time on a case that has fuelled criticism onlin
GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Rojo Neog left his house in India’s Assam state on the evening of July 19 to buy candles after heavy rain knocked out electricity. As he rode back on his bicycle, the Dikhow River suddenly rose and the current intensified. The floodwaters swept him away, and his body was found
By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, Aug 19 (Reuters) – An Australian court will on Wednesday begin hearing the appeal of a woman convicted of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms. Erin Patterson, 51, was convicted last year of murdering the three elderly i
By Mariko Katsumura, Tom Bateman and Issei Kato NIKKO, Japan, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Long after sunset, Motoaki Iijima’s illuminated greenhouse north of Tokyo glows like a lantern as the flower farmer harvests pink and orange gerberas, avoiding a daytime sun fierce enough to be deadly. As increasingly i
Aug 18 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing aides for a meeting as soon as this fall with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing U.S. officials. Trump has privately discussed setting up an in-person discussion with Kim during Trump’s next t
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel struck an air base in northwest Syria early Tuesday, saying it aimed to prevent Turkish troops from deploying there. Turkey, which has close ties with the Syrian government and has been providing assistance to Syria’s military, has tense relations with Israel. The rival
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Human-caused climate change was the main driver of recent record-breaking sea temperatures around Europe, scientists said on Wednesday, warning of severe consequences for marine ecosystems and coastal communities. Europe’s seas have not escaped the extreme
Missiles Target UAE, Hormuz Shipping as President Trump Rules Out Iran Talks By The Media Line Staff Missiles were fired toward the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, while a vessel came under Iranian attack in the Strait of Hormuz as US President Donald Trump ruled out negotiations with Tehran and sa
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled the skeletal remains of an adult they believe was buried as an offering near the base of Huaca Pucllana, an ancient adobe pyramid in Peru’s capital of Lima. The remains are believed to be those of a man who may have been sacrificed during a ritual
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire in western Canada that forced more than 20,000 people to evacuate last week destroyed or damaged about 150 structures, officials said Tuesday in the first detailed accounting of the blaze. A week later, about 2,200 people are still under evac
