SEOUL, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that Moscow and Pyongyang were actively cooperating across all areas and coordinating efforts to ensure regional security and stability, North Korean state media KCNA said on Saturday. In a message to Kim
SAO PAULO, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva continues to lead Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, although the right-wing challenger has narrowed the gap with the leftist incumbent ahead of October’s election, a Quaest poll showed on Friday. • In a simulated second-round runoff
Aug 14 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to strip nearly 1,100 Somalis of legal protections against deportation that have allowed them to live and work in the United States. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston allowed t
By David Brunnstrom Aug 14 (Reuters) – The United Nations appealed to donors on Friday not to cut funding for women’s programs in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, saying this would add to suffering in a country where conditions for women are already the worst in the world. Despite ever-deteriorating condi
Aug 14 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government has given 131 detained prisoners “alternative liberty restriction measures”, it said in a statement on Friday, as human rights groups hailed releases of some people they say were being held unjustly or for political reasons. The people had been detained for
14 Years After His Disappearance in Syria, Austin Tice’s Fate Remains a Mystery The longest-held American journalist in history disappeared near Damascus in 2012, and his family still believes he may be alive and may have been transferred to Iran after the fall of the Assad regime By Rizik Alabi / T
Aug 14 (Reuters) – Yemen’s internationally recognised government said the Houthis fired six ballistic missiles at the Red Sea port of Mocha on Friday, killing four civilians, amid an escalation in hostilities between the Iran-aligned group and its Saudi-backed opponents. The escalation comes at a ti
By Jessica Donati and David Lewis DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) – A deal to free an American hostage held by an Islamic State affiliate in West Africa’s Sahel region was brokered with the help of the eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar, four sources told Reuters. The hostage, a pilot working
BARCELONA, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Spanish authorities on Thursday removed the remains of three kings who ruled the Aragón region in the 11th century from a monastery threatened by a wildfire. Their remains were taken to the provincial museum of Huesca, located 80 km (50 miles) south of the monastery, fo
CALI, Colombia (AP) — As the search for survivors in the rubble of a devastating earthquake winds down, Colombia faces another challenge: rebuilding a nation shattered by a disaster that killed at least 285 people and affected more than 100,000. Tens of thousands of houses were damaged or destroyed,
Kushner Plans Israel, Egypt Visit as US Seeks to Revive Stalled Gaza Plan By The Media Line Staff Jared Kushner is planning to travel to Israel and Egypt with senior Board of Peace officials for talks aimed at advancing the stalled Gaza postwar plan following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s publ
By Enea Lebrun and Stefanie Eschenbacher PANAMA BAY, Panama, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Flocks of seabirds native to the cold, nutrient-rich waters off Peru and Chile are appearing far outside their usual range in Panama Bay as a powerful El Niño warms the eastern Pacific and disrupts marine food supplies.
MEXICO CITY, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Andres Manuel Lopez Beltran, a son of former Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said the United States has revoked his visa, accusing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau of ordering what he called a politically motivated
QUSRA, West Bank (AP) — From inside his home in the West Bank town of Qusra, Qusai Abu Rida watched on Friday as Israeli settlers moved from where they had erected a tent in front of his house to the valley below, rather than returning to the nearby outpost where they live. Even as the army took pos
LONDON (AP) — Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to consider the death of the summertime state of mind. The season itself is in no danger; climate change, mainly caused by the burning of oil, gas and coal, is warming the weather year-round. Viewed this way, summer-like weather is ascendant.
SAO PAULO, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Brazilian police have recovered eight works by French painter Henri Matisse that were stolen from Sao Paulo’s largest public library late last year. The prints, valued at more than 1 million reais ($193,000), were found in an apartment in the downtown area of Sao Bernar
(This story has been refiled to remove the images, with no changes to text) By Nilo Tabrizy, Catherine Cartier and Jonathan Saul Aug 14 (Reuters) – Two slicks have appeared in Iranian waters, satellite imagery and video verified by Reuters show, as tit-for-tat attacks on oil tankers and other vessel
(Corrects typo in first paragraph) By Elizabeth Pineau and Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS, Aug 14 (Reuters) – France’s top court on Friday blocked a bill banning social media access for under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of expression, a setback for President Emmanuel Macron who asked his government
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Vote counting in Zambia’s presidential election was suspended by the electoral authority Friday over reports of attacks on polling officials and the theft of some ballot papers. The Electoral Commission of Zambia said it was suspending the counting immediately “in view of the s
By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police on Friday carried out search warrants targeting former Rio de Janeiro Governor Claudio Castro, two sources familiar with the investigation told Reuters. Castro’s lawyer said in a statement to Reuters that authorities ha
MILAN (AP) — Italian authorities recovered three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros that were stolen earlier this year from a private museum near the northern city of Parma, police said Friday. A statement from the Italian Carabinieri’s art recovery squad said the paint
MILAN (AP) — Ash spewing from Sicily’s Mount Etna has forced the closure of the Italian island’s largest airport for the fifth consecutive day, stranding hundreds of summer holiday travelers during the busiest travel week of the year. Catania’s airport will remain closed until early Saturday, which
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A tunnel under construction at a hydropower project in India’s northern hill state of Uttarakhand collapsed overnight, leaving at least seven workers dead, officials said Friday. A rescue operation was launched after a sudden rush of water and debris entered the tunnel at the V
By Marissa Davison CLACTON-ON-SEA, England, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Surrounded by more than 30 other prospective parliamentarians including three “loonies” and someone from the Everyone is God party, Count Binface basked in the greatest result ever achieved by one of Britain’s traditional joke election c
N’DJAMENA, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Chad’s presidency said in a statement that President Mahamat Idriss Déby has pardoned his main rival and opposition leader Success Masra, who has been in jail for more than a year for inciting violence and complicity to murder. • Masra, a former prime minister, was sent
By Jonathan Saul, Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali LONDON/PANAMA CITY, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Transit through the Strait of Hormuz appeared to grind to a near standstill on Friday after two more ships were attacked there and the United States said it could maintain a naval blockade of Iran indefinitely. A se
By Anna Koper WARSAW, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Russia has significantly stepped up its online disinformation campaign in Poland, using a dispute between Warsaw and Kyiv over World War Two massacres to inflame tensions between Ukraine and its key ally, Polish officials and researchers say. The messaging, m
By Feras Dalatey and Ludwig Burger DAMASCUS/FRANKFURT, Aug 14 (Reuters) – A former Syrian security officer sentenced to prison in Austria for abusing detainees during Bashar al-Assad’s rule left the country while appealing against his sentence and returned to Syria earlier this month, according to f
ROME, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Italian police have recovered three paintings by French masters Paul Cezanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Matisse that were stolen from a museum near the northern city of Parma in March, officials said on Friday. Carabinieri officers from Italy’s cultural heritage protec
MOSCOW, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Russia believes the United States is deeply involved in Ukrainian attacks against it and has raised the issue with Washington, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in comments broadcast on Friday. He said that the alleged U.S. support included the supply of intelligence. “W
