VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — It’s not all about short-legged speed when 150 corgis gather for an international race celebrating the little dogs. There’s a costume parade, the “smartest nose,” and — of course — the loudest bark. The fifth Corgi Race Vilnius drew dogs and their owners to the Lithuanian c
BAELEN, Belgium (AP) — Firefighters battled a massive wildfire in eastern Belgium on Sunday that has burned about 30 square kilometers (12 square miles) in the High Fens, a large nature reserve, in one of the country’s worst wildfires in recent history. About 600 residents in the nearby municipaliti
DUBAI, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Iran executed a man convicted of deliberately driving his car into police officers during anti-government protests in the city of Karaj in January, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday. Shahram Sadeghi was accused of driving a car into police officers
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war. Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drones targeting military industries and energy facilities. It has
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Victoria Pacheco SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launches his final reelection campaign on Sunday from a storied stadium where he stood on a table to address some 60,000 striking metalworkers in 1979 without a
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday vowed to hit Iran hard economically, a day after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that Washington would impose measures on Tehran that have “never been seen” as soon as next week. The United States, United Na
Adm. Brad Cooper, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, visited the USS Lincoln in the Arabian Sea during a 10-day tour in the region that concluded on Saturday, U.S. Central Command said. Israel said its strikes in southern Lebanon, which killed at least 11 people, targeted two Hezbol
By Bart Biesemans and Kate Abnett HAUTES FAGNES/BRUSSELS, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Firefighters worked through the night to battle Belgium’s biggest wildfire on record, which by Sunday morning had burned 3,000 hectares of land and was heading towards the German border, local authorities said. The blaze in
By Valentina Za MILAN, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Four artworks by 15th century painter Antonello da Messina have been stolen overnight from the Museo Regionale di Messina, Italy’s culture minister said on Sunday, expressing confidence in the police inquiry. The theft deprives Messina of parts of the only s
MOSCOW, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Ukrainian drones struck Moscow region overnight on Sunday in what the provincial governor said was one of the largest attacks to have targeted the region, and which he said had left at least one person dead. In posts on Telegram, Moscow region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said
JAKARTA, Aug 16 (Reuters) – A magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck eastern Indonesia on Saturday has killed at least 51 people, with rescue operations ongoing. Here are the deadliest earthquakes of the past decade, as recorded by Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency BNPB: PALU, SIGI – 4,141 DEATHS
DUBAI, Aug 16 (Reuters) – An Iranian military official said on Sunday that Qatar should allow an Iranian team to enter the country to investigate the fate of pilots whom Tehran says were captured by Qatari forces, Iranian media reported. Qatar denies holding any Iranian pilots. Doha said on Saturday
MADRID, Aug 16 (Reuters) – A flood and landslide caused by torrential rain killed two elderly women and injured two babies in rural northwestern Spain, authorities said, as seven regions were placed on yellow alert for storms and heavy rain on Sunday. The deaths of the women, aged about 60 and 80 ye
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — It has welcomed marathon runners, rock stars and the first modern Olympic athletes. Now it’s time for a monumental scrub. Athens’ U-shaped Panathenaic Stadium — made entirely of white marble — is getting its first systematic cleaning in more than a century. Rebuilt for the firs
BUDAPEST, Aug 16 (Reuters) – A dozen people were killed and at least 10 injured after a Polish bus overturned at night on a motorway in eastern Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Sunday morning in a Facebook post. The bus ran into a ditch and tipped over early on Sunday near the
LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (AP) — Searchers dug through collapsed buildings and landslide debris Sunday in eastern Indonesia as they searched for bodies and possible survivors a day after a powerful earthquake killed at least 47 people, injured more than 100 and displaced thousands. At least 24 people d
SEOUL, Aug 16 (Reuters) – South Korea’s military last week fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers violated the military demarcation line, prompting them to return, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday, citing an unnamed source. Yonhap said multiple North Korean soldiers crossed the militar
BUCHAREST, Aug 16 (Reuters) – A Spanish F-18 fighter jet pilot on a NATO air policing mission shot down a drone illegally breaching Romanian national airspace, the fourth unmanned aircraft the country has shot down this year, Romania’s defence ministry said on Sunday. The NATO state shares a 614-km
By Arnold Welianto SIKKA, Indonesia, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Around 5,000 people have been evacuated after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake smashed an area in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 51, blocking roads and causing landslides, authorities said on Sunday. Thirty-six people were seriously injured in t
By Hyeyoon Cho SEOUL, Aug 16 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed the deepening of ties with Russia in a message to President Vladimir Putin as Pyongyang marked the anniversary of independence from Japan’s colonial rule, KCNA state news agency said on Sunday. Kim was replying to a
SYDNEY, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Australia’s New South Wales state will start a gun buyback in November, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday, part of the national response to a shooting spree that killed 15 at a Jewish festival in Sydney, the state capital. Albanese’s centre-left government ena
Aug 16 (Reuters) – Russian forces launched a missile attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, sparking fires in at least two districts of Ukraine’s capital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. The city’s military administration said one person had been injured. Klitschko, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Hopes of finding survivors of the earthquake that struck western Colombia five days ago were dwindling on Saturday, as more bodies were pulled from buildings that collapsed due to the 7.4-magnitude quake that left hundreds dead or missing. The earthqua
Aug 15 (Reuters) – A Canadian-bred bird was sold for $346,000 at the International Falcon Breeders Auction in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, making it the most expensive sale so far at this year’s event, and the second-highest price ever achieved at the annual auction. Bred by the Jim Wilson farm in Onta
Aug 15 (Reuters) – Qatar denied on Saturday that it was holding Iranian pilots, saying they had violated Qatari airspace earlier this year and had failed to respond to attempts to contact them. A Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson said on X that search and rescue teams later found the remains of o
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Eighteen children were among more than 70 people killed when an overloaded ferry capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe this week, police said Saturday after rescuers recovered more bodies. The ferry capsized in strong waves on Tuesday. Police said that 26 more bodies had been r
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s prime minister called for reflection on Saturday after a Black professor who faced a storm of plagiarism accusations died suddenly, days after resigning from a prestigious role at the University of Cambridge. Jason Arday, who became Cambridge’s youngest Black professor in 202
By Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Families on the outskirts of Qusra, the West Bank village where Palestinian homes have been under siege for nearly a week, said they have faced sometimes deadly attacks by militant settlers for months. The United States wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjam
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Twenty-two more bodies have been recovered following a boat accident in a lake in Zimbabwe, police said on Saturday, taking the death toll to 68. The boat capsized on August 11 on Lake Kariba. Investigations suggested the boat was overloaded when it went over during
Aug 15 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Mocha port has suspended commercial and maritime operations after being hit by more than 25 missiles in Houthi attacks over recent days, the port’s director said on Saturday. The attacks killed seven people and caused an estimated $16 million in losses, the director told a
