A Russian court on Monday convicted a prominent opposition politician for speaking out against the war in Ukraine and sentenced him to 11 years and one month in prison in the latest crackdown leading up to next month’s parliamentary election. The verdict against Lev Shlosberg, a senior member of the
TUNIS, Aug 17 (Reuters) – The charity rescue ship, EMERGENCY, rescued 50 migrants from an wooden boat in international waters off Libya on Monday, while seven others were found dead, the charity said. Two people are in critical condition and suffering from suffocation and needed urgent medical evacu
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Israeli flags planted on a main coastal highway in southern Lebanon are a violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon said on Monday, urging all sides to avoid “provocative actions”. Israel’s military invaded a swathe o
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran should surrender to end a war with the U.S. as talks between the countries remained stalled. “They should put up the white flag of surrender,” Trump told a Fox News reporter during a phone interview. An interim deal
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with an impostor posing as U.S. President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, according to reports published Monday. A spokesperson for Burnham declined to comment, saying it was policy not to discuss “national security matters.” Politi
PHNOM PENH, Aug 17 (Reuters) – The daughter of a recently pardoned Cambodian opposition figure who was jailed for alleged treason has been appointed special envoy to Prime Minister Hun Manet, a royal decree showed on Monday, in a rare concession to the political opposition. • The appointment of Kem
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – A senior member of Russia’s liberal Yabloko party was sentenced on Monday to 11 years and one month in a penal colony for condemning the war in Ukraine, which he described at his trial as a catastrophe for Russia. Lev Shlosberg, the party’s deputy chairma
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Iran has decided to shift its policy from defensive to “fully offensive” due to the deadlock in efforts to agree a permanent end to its war with the United States, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday. Progress towards peace talks and a resumpti
By Emily Rose JERUSALEM, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party will choose its candidates to fight in October elections on Monday, with analysts saying a shift further to the right by many members could threaten the Israeli leader’s chances of winning. The contenders who
LUSAKA, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema’s lead in the Southern African country’s presidential election has widened, partial results from about 71% of constituencies showed on Monday. Hichilema’s share of the valid votes rose to roughly 62%, up from 59% late on Sunday. His mai
Aug 17 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked what they described as a Saudi military ship and four escort vessels in the Red Sea with missiles, according to the group’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree on Telegram on Monday. There was no immediate confirmation from Saudi authorities. Mo
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Tom Perry Aug 17 (Reuters) – Khalil Al-Hayya, the Hamas chief who met U.S. envoy Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, in Cairo on Sunday, emerged as a pivotal figure in the Palestinian militant group during the Gaza war as Israel killed its other leaders. Name
MUMBAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Indian security agencies arrested more than 200 “terror operatives” linked to Pakistan, thwarting potential “subversive attacks” around the country’s Independence Day last week, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday, in one of the largest such crackdowns in years. • A mul
SAO PAULO, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a tight lead over Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, his main right-wing challenger, in a potential runoff ahead of October’s election, a BTG Pactual/Nexus poll showed on Monday. • In a simulated second-round runoff, the leftis
BEIJING, Aug 17 (Reuters) – A landslide hit southwestern China’s Guangxi region on Monday, killing at least one person while four others remained trapped, local authorities said. • The landslide took place in a construction site in Nandan County shortly before noon, a local government statement said
MADRID, Aug 17 (Reuters) – A suspected gang leader’s mother-in-law, his pregnant sister and a teenager were killed in a drug-related shooting in southern Spain, police said on Monday. The alleged gang leader’s 18-year-old nephew was seriously wounded in the shooting on Sunday night and another perso
DUBLIN, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Ireland’s police chief has warned that some young people are driving the wrong way on the motorway “for social media likes” following two head-on crashes near Dublin in recent weeks. The warning by the head of the Irish police force, Justin Kelly, came after five male teen
LUSAKA, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Zambian police arrested several leading opposition figures on the night of national elections last week, accusing them of posing a threat to state security, the government said. Votes were still being counted on Monday from Thursday’s presidential and parliamentary electio
DUBAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday that two French embassy employees involved in a diplomatic dispute last month would not be allowed to return to Iran. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the two had violated the Vienna Convention – which defines the rules and privileges of d
By Ananda Teresia NAGEKEO, Indonesia, Aug 17 (Reuters) – As the earth shook around her, tearing apart homes, buildings, and bridges in eastern Indonesia, Maria Florida Nogo Kelen was giving birth to her daughter. The 39-year-old went in for emergency surgery as a 7.7 earthquake and a series of after
Aug 17 (Reuters) – Specialty chemicals maker Indo Amines said on Monday two people, including an employee, died on Saturday following a gas leak at its manufacturing facility in Mahad, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Another person working at a neighbouring industrial unit died during me
By Bart Biesemans, Yves Herman and Kate Abnett HIGH FENS NATIONAL PARK, Belgium, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Rain over eastern Belgium on Monday morning aided firefighters battling to contain the country’s biggest wildfire on record, which had threatened to reach the German border. Wildfires have ripped thro
By Juarawee Kittisilpa and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Loaves of sourdough bread now fill the display window of Suchart and Friends Gun, a firearms shop-turned-bakery in Bangkok’s old quarter where pistols and rifles once lined the glass case. Like all the gun shops in Thailand,
By John Geddie TOKYO, Aug 17 (Reuters) – German drone maker Helsing has enlisted Japanese e-commerce and finance firm Rakuten to help finalise a deal to sell its unmanned systems to Japan’s army, a spokesperson for Rakuten said on Monday. Japan’s Ground Self-Defence Forces are currently testing Hels
BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s military-backed government embarked on an official visit to Russia to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin aimed at strengthening bilateral ties and strategic cooperation, state media said. President Min Aung Hlaing departed from the capital Naypyitaw on Mond
By Alexander Cornwell JERUSALEM, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to meet Donald Trump’s envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner on Monday, a day after he held a rare meeting with Hamas officials in Cairo, in a bid to push forward the U.S. president’s Gaza peace plan. A
By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Taiwan is determined to strengthen its defences and plans record defence spending next year, President Lai Ching-te said on Monday, describing his government’s military budget proposal as an investment in peace. Taiwan’s cabinet will unveil next year’s bud
Aug 17 (Reuters) – Myanmar junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing left for Russia on Monday for his first official visit to the country since he assumed the presidency in April, according to state media. • Russia will be the fifth country Min Aung Hlaing has visited since becoming president, w
MOGADISHU, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Somalia’s federal troops and armed opposition groups clashed in heavy fighting in Baidoa city centre on Monday, a local resident and an army officer told Reuters. The administrative capital of South West state, Baidoa is home to international peacekeepers and humanitar
By Anton Zverev LONDON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Binance last year handed Russian authorities details of cryptocurrency donations to Ukrainian fundraising campaigns that were used as evidence to bring terrorism financing charges against a Russian IT specialist, law enforcement documents show. While it is
