By Tala Ramadan BEIRUT, July 29 (Reuters) – A group of Lebanese lawyers filed a complaint with the country’s top prosecutor on Wednesday requesting an investigation into banker Antoun Sehnaoui over a dinner he allegedly co-hosted in Washington that was attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Net
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials said Wednesday the country’s forces hit one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries overnight in its latest deep strike as Kyiv extended economic, military and diplomatic pressure on Moscow. Ukraine’s almost daily long-range drone and missile strikes using domesti
By Benjamin Raab TEL AVIV, July 29 (Reuters) – A new Jewish-Arab political party is courting young voters ahead of Israel’s October election. But critics say it risks weakening the bid by the already underrepresented Arab minority to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightist governme
By Phil Stewart July 29 (Reuters) – The top U.S. commander for the Middle East has warned troops that cellphone videos shared online can help Iran target American bases, and sources told Reuters some deployed personnel could soon be ordered to surrender their phones. Any crackdown on mobile communic
SAO PAULO, July 29 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads a potential second-round vote in the October presidential election against opposition Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll showed on Wednesday. Lula would receive 49.2% of votes in a runoff, compared
By Janis Laizans and Guillermo Martinez LANTON, France/EL TIEMBLO, Spain, July 29 (Reuters) – Temperatures were set to soar again in France and Spain on Wednesday in a fourth heatwave of the summer, increasing the threat from wildfires that have forced large-scale evacuations of people, scorched thr
By Michael Georgy DUBAI, July 29 – The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have struck Iran-backed Shi’ite armed groups in Iraq, which the allies said were responsible for drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities. The attacks have put the spotlight on the militias that wield enormous political and military power in
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) — Firefighters in southwest France battled an uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris on Wednesday as temperatures were forecast to reach 40 C (104 F), threatening to turn a calm night into only a brief reprieve. Authorities in the Gironde region said the blaze
KUMAMOTO, Japan (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck the Kumamoto area on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday. A shopping mall, a factory and multiple homes were heavily damaged, and Self Defense Forces personnel joined rescue workers to look for survivors. ____ This is a photo gallery
July 29 (Reuters) – Ukrainian drones hit oil refineries and logistics facilities in the Russian cities of Perm, Ryazan and Taganrog, as well as the Crimean peninsula overnight, with the country’s top online retailer Wildberries evacuating its Ryazan warehouse. While Ukraine’s air defences are runnin
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM, July 29 (Reuters) – Israelis are due to hold a national election on October 27. It will be the first since the deadly October 7, 2023 Hamas attack that shook the country and plunged the Middle East into turmoil as Israel went to war in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. Although pol
INNSBRUCK, Austria (AP) — Wearing protective gear to shield from the extreme heat of molten bronze, workers at one of the last bell foundries in Europe are casting bells weighing several tons. One after another, the artisans carefully pour the molten metal into special-shaped molds held together wit
ZAWTAR AL-GHARBIEH, Lebanon (AP) — Mahasen Faqih and her husband returned this week to their village in southern Lebanon, digging through the debris of their home in search of their belongings, as part of the U.S.-brokered “pilot zones” agreement in which Israel agreed to withdraw in exchange for th
BORDEAUX, France (AP) — The mobile phone alert message marked “URGENT” came with a beeeeeeep in the dead of night. “Evacuate now,” it said. Suddenly awake, Morgane Bonichot scrambled. She grabbed her 9-year-old daughter, their rabbit and their dog but didn’t think to pack underwear. The 40-year-old
MOSCOW, July 29 (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Wednesday that it had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities, and that it had issued an international warrant for his arrest, Interfax reported. (Reporting by Reuters, Writing by Felix Light; E
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A man’s body has been recovered from the site of a landslide at a gold mine in Solomon Islands, officials said. The body was found Tuesday, a day after the landslide at the open pit mine on Guadalcanal, the largest island of the South Pacific nation. It wasn’t known if
By David Lewis, Reade Levinson and Alexander Dziadosz LONDON/CAIRO, July 29 (Reuters) – United Nations experts have found that Boeing 727s linked by Reuters to a U.S. military contractor’s business network transported mercenaries, weapons and drones for Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, according to a d
YAME, Japan (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said 13 people have been found dead after a powerful quake shook part of southwestern Japan and rescue work was continuing Wednesday morning for the missing. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of K
July 29 (Reuters) – Ukraine cannot go “punch for punch” when confronting Russia militarily but must use resources carefully and act in an “asymmetric” fashion, Ukraine’s new acting defence minister said in an interview published early on Wednesday. Yevhenii Khmara gave the interview with right-wing
By Joseph Campbell, Kaori Kaneko and Mariko Katsumura KUMAMOTO, Japan, July 29 (Reuters) – A 7.1-magnitude earthquake killed at least 13 people near the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto and rescuers are frantically searching for survivors trapped beneath the rubble, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi s
WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Tuesday it conducted strikes with Saudi Arabia’s armed forces in Iraq against militant groups aligned with Iran. “U.S. Central Command and the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces conducted precision strikes in Iraq, July 28, against Iran-aligned terro
July 28 (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council will hold an initial round of informal closed-door “straw poll” ballots on Thursday to assess support for the seven candidates currently vying to become the next head of the United Nations. The candidates, from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecu
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Tuesday it intercepted multiple ballistic missiles launched by Iran towards U.S. forces in the Middle East, adding American forces remained “vigilant.” The statement by the U.S. Central Command did not mention the exact loca
Syria Closes the Chapter on the ‘Assad Pound.’ Can the New Currency Regain Syrians’ Trust? Bahjat Daqdouq, a Damascus resident, told The Media Line: “We want to see real strength in the new currency, rather than the process being limited to replacing banknotes” By Rizik Alabi / The Media Line [DAMAS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Tuesday that it knocked down an Iranian missile barrage and worked with Saudi Arabia’s forces to strike sites in Iraq that Tehran-backed militias have used to launch attacks in recent days, shattering a brief pause in fighting. All Iranian missiles launched a
July 28 (Reuters) – Ukrainian drone strikes killed three people on Tuesday in Russia’s border region of Belgorod and 19 more were injured in an attack on a bus denounced by the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. Regional authorities said a drone strike on a business in a village near the border killed two
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The deaths of 15 elephants over the past month in Kenya ‘s Amboseli National Park have sparked an investigation, wildlife authorities said Tuesday. The Kenya Wildlife Service said 10 of the pachyderms showed signs of partial paralysis before dying within two days, while the rem
CAIRO, July 28 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthis said they fired ballistic missiles at a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea, stepping up enforcement of a newly declared maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia. The Iran-aligned group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said the vessel had breached the blockade, i
By Cristina Chiquin and Sarah Morland GUATEMALA CITY, July 28 (Reuters) – A Guatemalan man deported from the U.S. and his wife, who recently self-deported to join him, were found dead in a sugarcane field in southwestern Guatemala, authorities said on Tuesday. Their 1-year-old daughter was discovere
By Julia Harte July 28 (Reuters) – A Georgia teenager will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing four people and injuring nine others in a 2024 school shooting, a judge ruled on Tuesday. Colt Gray, 16, who on Friday pleaded guilty to 55 counts including murder and assault charges, appeare
