By Mahmoud Issa and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO, Aug 18 (Reuters) – As children walked into the zoo near Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, they found a lion barely looking back at them through the bars of its cage and chimpanzees sitting listlessly in their enclosure. Many of the animals were malnouris
GOREE ISLAND, Senegal (AP) — As a child, Ndeye Awa Diop was so shy she couldn’t look people in the eye. Raised in rural Senegal, she learned to embrace what was traditionally expected of girls across the predominately Muslim West African nation. They should be seen but not heard. They should obey th
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Ayoub Akbili needed money for his mother’s surgery. Hamza Haibouri wanted a shot at a professional soccer career. Abdelouahed Iken was chasing the glossy life a friend posted about on Facebook from Italy. So when they heard rumors that Morocco’s border with Spain was open,
KANDERSTEG, Switzerland (AP) — An unstable mountain rock formation looming above the Swiss village of Kandersteg threatens a landslide that could rival the disaster that destroyed nearby Blatten last year, a collapse scientists linked to thawing permafrost and glacier dynamics. The 1,300 residents o
The new sensation among some Chinese moviegoers is an animated film whose characters appear to have been created with rudimentary 3D animation and have been described as “ugly” and “eerie.” But it is the scathing online reviews that seem to have prompted interest in “Niu Lai,” an animated film about
By Mark John and Yoruk Bahceli LONDON, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Someone will have to pick up the tab for the damage wrought by Europe’s increasingly volatile weather, and with the bulk of those economic losses uninsured, that will be the public purse unless immediate action is taken. This year’s wildfires
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A high school student carrying two pistols shot to death a fellow student before killing himself Tuesday in an attack in a southern Philippine high school campus that he livestreamed using a body-worn camera, police and other officials said. It was the second fatal school
Aug 18 (Reuters) – Russia downed 180 drones in the Moscow region overnight, the capital’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said on the Telegram messaging app early on Tuesday, in one of the biggest Ukrainian air attacks on the Russian capital. Drones hit a warehouse of Russian e-commerce company Wildberries
Aug 18 (Reuters) – The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) received a report on Tuesday that a vessel was struck by an unknown projectile while transiting outbound in the Strait of Hormuz, causing engine room damage and a crew casualty, with the remaining crew being assisted by the Oman
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has been reelected for a second five-year term, the Electoral Commission of Zambia announced early Tuesday. He was declared the outright winner of last Thursday’s presidential election without the need for a run-off, having secured 61.4% of
SINGAPORE, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Ship crossings via the Strait of Hormuz were still in single digits on Monday, despite rising slightly from the weekend, according to preliminary shipping data on Tuesday, amid a stalemate in U.S. and Iranian peace talks. Six commodity ships transited the strait on Mond
By Karen Lema and Mikhail Flores MANILA, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Two students were killed in a shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, one of them the gunman, and the situation was now under control, officials said, in the second such incident in the country in less than two mon
SEOUL, Aug 18 (Reuters) – South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called on Tuesday for stronger independent defence capabilities, while saying annual civil-defence exercises coinciding with joint U.S.-South Korea military drills were defensive and not intended to threaten North Korea. The remarks came
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge ordered on Monday the release of a Kentucky woman who was accused of vandalism at the World War Two Memorial in Washington last week, court records showed. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in Washington, criticized
BEIJING, Aug 18 (Reuters) – China on Tuesday lowered national flags at government headquarters to mourn former Premier Zhu Rongji, the no-nonsense reformer who died last week at the age of 97, as the public reminisced about a bygone era while reflecting on his complicated legacy. Security was tighte
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Monday that oil drilling in northern and northeastern coastal regions could be “a passport to the country’s future” after visiting a Petrobras offshore drilling vessel following a find announced last week near the mouth of the Ama
By Nilutpal Timsina LUSAKA, Aug 18 (Reuters) – After restructuring Zambia’s debt in his first term, Hakainde Hichilema says there is more work to be done in his second and wants to double the size of the economy, create more jobs and expand opportunities for households. The 64-year-old won a second
By Nelson Bocanegra and Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Aug 17 (Reuters) – The economic losses from a powerful earthquake that struck Colombia last week are expected to reach 30 trillion pesos ($9.58 billion), Colombia’s President Abelardo De La Espriella said on Monday. De La Espriella said the impact in
LUSAKA, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema secured a second term in office after winning the Southern African country’s presidential election, official results released by the Electoral Commission of Zambia showed in the early hours of Tuesday morning. (Reporting by Chris Mfula
CHISINAU, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Moldova’s foreign ministry condemned the violation of the country’s airspace by an unidentified aerial object that later exploded on Monday, it said in a statement on social media. Moldova shares a border with Ukraine and supports that country in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
ANKARA, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call to pursue talks with Iran to de-escalate tensions between the two countries, and offered Ankara’s support for peace efforts, the Turkish presidency said on Tuesday. Turkey, which has NATO’s
By Jonathan Stempel Aug 17 (Reuters) – A Georgia man has been deported from Fiji to face charges in his home state accusing him of defrauding more than 6,000 investors and causing more than $165 million of losses in a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, the U.S. attorney in Atlanta said on Monday. Edward Z
Kushner-Netanyahu Talks Fail To Break Gaza Disarmament Deadlock By The Media Line Staff US envoy Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed Monday in Jerusalem to establish working groups on Hamas’ disarmament and Gaza’s public health needs, but failed to resolve whether Isra
By Chris Ratcliffe LONDON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Thousands attended a vigil in central London on Monday for Jason Arday, a former University of Cambridge sociology professor who was found dead on Friday after weeks of intense scrutiny over accusations of plagiarism and other claims. Arday, once hailed
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s approval rating fell to the lowest level of his presidency, with an overwhelming majority of Americans concerned the U.S. war with Iran will last a long time, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Monday. Just 33% o
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had responded to his overtures after Trump ordered the United States to scale back military exercises with South Korea. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump was asked why Kim had not
By Pesha Magid QUSRA, West Bank, Aug 17 (Reuters) – He watched from thousands of miles away on a security camera feed as militant Israeli settlers encircled his West Bank house, fearing he could lose his home forever amid increasing Israeli seizures of Palestinian property in the occupied territory.
ROME, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Italy’s government has seen nothing to suggest that Russia was behind last week’s explosion at a munitions plant near Rome, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto was quoted as saying on Monday. The blast struck a KNDS Ammo Italy factory in Colleferro, southeast of Rome, on Thursda
WASHINGTON/DAKAR, Aug 17 (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said on Monday that its staff would visit the West African country from August 19 to September 1 to continue discussions on policies and reforms that could be supported by a new lending arrangement. The two-week visit by a full IMF
Aug 17 (Reuters) – French conservative presidential candidate Edouard Philippe has won the backing of government minister Gerald Darmanin for next year’s election, Darmanin said in a newspaper interview published on Monday. • Darmanin, who is France’s justice minister and part of the conservative, r
