By Max Hunder KYIV, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s recently ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections in a bombshell address on Tuesday evening, stating that the wartime nation faced a crisis of governance, in the biggest internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
By AJ Vicens Aug 18 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday unsealed new and updated charges against 17 individuals working with an Iranian company that it alleges carried out hacks and data theft against U.S. universities, companies and government agencies. The DOJ said in a statement
By Timour Azhari GENEVA, Aug 18 (Reuters) – The United States is working to establish a deconfliction mechanism among Israel, Turkey and Syria, U.S. special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said on Tuesday after Israel struck a Syrian airbase near the Turkish border. Barrack, who is also U.S. ambassador
BRASILIA, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro on Tuesday unveiled new additions to his presidential campaign team, including former Mines and Energy Minister Adolfo Sachsida, who will help strengthen the campaign’s economic platform. Flavio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of ex-President
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Hours of fierce fighting between government troops and militias that killed dozens of combatants in Somalia’s southwestern city of Baidoa also left at least four civilians dead and 98 others wounded, a hospital official said Tuesday. The fighting erupted early Monday when m
LA PAZ, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Bolivia’s Congress on Tuesday voted to censure Economy Minister Jose Gabriel Espinoza, a move that forces his removal and deals a fresh blow to President Rodrigo Paz at a delicate moment for his economic reform agenda. Lawmakers backed the motion by majority vote after Esp
The world knows that U.S. President Donald Trump is angry with Iran. But he’s not happy with the small country lying across the Strait of Hormuz from the Islamic Republic, either: Oman. Oman has played a relatively low-profile role since the Iran war began, including as a mediator. But its geography
Syrian Court Sentences Wassim Assad to Death After Conviction for Premeditated Murder Rizik Alabi / The Media Line [DAMASCUS] Damascus’ Fourth Criminal Court on Tuesday, August 18, handed down a death sentence to Wassim Assad, a cousin of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, after convicting him of
Saudi Arabia Removes Antisemitic Content From School Textbooks By The Media Line Staff Saudi Arabia has removed the remaining examples of antisemitic and extremist content identified in its 2025–2026 school textbooks, continuing curriculum reforms aimed at advancing religious tolerance, peaceful coe
WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) – The United States has imposed Venezuela-related sanctions on one entity based in the British Virgin Islands, according to a notice posted on the Treasury Department website on Tuesday. The U.S. targeted Bluwaves Properties Limited, an offshore corporate vehicle formerl
HARARE, Aug 18 (Reuters) – A government-owned ferry that capsized on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba last week was carrying about 180 passengers, double what police had given as its capacity, the government said on Tuesday, as the death toll rose to 94. State-controlled newspaper The Herald said it was the d
Aug 18 (Reuters) – The U. S. imposed sanctions on Tuesday on the International Criminal Court’s president and a senior trial lawyer at the court, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. The move is the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign against The Hague-based court, which was est
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 18 (Reuters) – An international crossing in the Andes mountain range that connects Argentina with Chile reopened on Tuesday after being closed for a record 34 days due to heavy snowfall and strong winds during the El Niño phenomenon. The closure of the Cristo Redentor tunnel had le
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, Aug 18 (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike killed at least six Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, health officials said, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Jared Kushner ended an inconclusive trip to the region over a stalled U.S. plan to end the war in
Aug 18 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia had the right to regard the direct involvement of Britain in strikes on Russian territory as participation in the war in Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported. His comments came after the Times newspaper reported on Saturday
By Chijioke Ohuocha ABUJA, Aug 18 (Reuters) – The United States has lifted security restrictions imposed on vessels arriving from Nigeria after more than a decade, the Marine and Blue economy Minister Adegboyega Oyetola said on Tuesday, in a move expected to cut shipping costs and boost the competit
CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Oman because he is unhappy the country is close to a deal with Iran to manage ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, two regional officials said Tuesday, a day after Trump leveled the threat. The officials said the Trump administration
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For decades, the United States and South Korea have regularly staged military drills to prepare their soldiers to work together smoothly in the event of a crisis or conflict with North Korea. But this year’s Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise, one of the two main drills conducte
GENEVA, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Ecuadorean diplomat Ivonne Baki has joined the race to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations, the eighth candidate to replace Portugal’s Antonio Guterres next year, documents showed on Tuesday. Baki, who has served as an Ecuadorean government minister and
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL, Aug 18 (Reuters) – An explosion at an education centre in Kabul injured at least 42 children on Monday, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said on Tuesday, calling for an “investigation to establish the circumstances of this incident.” The blast occur
By Parisa Hafezi and Katharine Jackson DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday no talks were taking place with Iran and none were scheduled, and he insisted that the Strait of Hormuz was open, contradicting an earlier Iranian assertion that the critical water
BERLIN (AP) — A Ukrainian national was convicted Tuesday in Germany on charges of espionage and sentenced to a year and three months in prison after being accused of sending packages containing GPS trackers to Ukraine via a Ukrainian postal service in March 2025. Two other defendants, also Ukrainian
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday hosted the head of Myanmar’s military-backed government, who visited Russia on a trip to boost their cooperation. Speaking at the start of the talks with President Min Aung Hlaing, Putin noted both countries have cooperated on foreign policy and secu
TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Quebec’s separatist party said Tuesday he would delay any referendum on independence from Canada until Donald Trump is no longer U.S. president. Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, whose party is out of power but could win Quebec’s next election that must be
By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) – A federal judge allowed U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday to end legal protections granted to over 5,000 Ethiopians that have allowed them to live and work in the United States. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston lifted the las
By Pesha Magid, Ammar Awad and Sinan Abu Mayzer QUSRA, West Bank, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Palestinian American Loui Ridi raised a giant American flag over his West Bank home, hoping it might deter militant settlers besieging the property. But it wasn’t enough to stop one of them from walking onto Ridi’s
By Lili Bayer and Stine Jacobsen BRUSSELS, Aug 18 (Reuters) – European Union officials are hoping a referendum in Iceland on whether to restart membership talks will help boost support within Europe for other less wealthy states to join the bloc, diplomats told Reuters ahead of a public vote this m
By Maria Alejandra Cardona and David Latona CEUTA, Spain, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Some women who entered Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on July 30 as part of a mass migrant crossing say the hardships of sleeping rough as they wait to be registered are compounded by the threat and fear of sexual h
By Tilman Blasshofer and Timm Reichert STUTTGART, Germany, Aug 18 (Reuters) – A German court convicted a Ukrainian man on Tuesday over what prosecutors described as a plot linked to Russian intelligence to detonate parcels in Europe designed to cause damage and undermine public confidence in securit
FRANKFURT, Aug 18 (Reuters) – The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Tuesday that a drone exploded at a bus stop used by staff of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, killing one and injuring several others. The IAEA, the United Nations’ nuclear power watchdog, in a statement on X als
