BAIDOA, Somalia (AP) — After nearly two weeks on the road with her five children, Luul Mohamed finally arrived in the southwestern Somali city of Baidoa with no food and little sense of what would happen next. Drought conditions had forced Mohamed and her family to leave Saakoow, a town in the Middl
KALLUDER E VOGEL, Kosovo (AP) — Erblin Ademi watched from afar as workers excavated recently discovered mass graves from the 1998-99 war in Kosovo. Nearly 30 years after his father went missing, Ademi both feared and wished that his remains will finally be found. Ademi was just 9 when he last saw hi
PEREIRA, Colombia (AP) — The search for life in the rubble of Colombia’s powerful earthquake grew more desperate on Wednesday as search teams pushed up against a key time threshold to locate survivors with signs of life. The devastation has tested Colombia’s new President Abelardo de la Espriella an
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Crews were battling a fire and trying to rescue more survivors from a burning passenger ferry in rough seas Wednesday near the Indonesian tourist island of Bali. Rescuers and passing vessels had managed to save 106 people and were battling to get the remaining 25 people off
Aug 12 (Reuters) – Ukraine has paused drone strikes on oil tankers using Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk after a request from U.S. Vice President JD Vance, the Financial Times said on Wednesday, citing Ukrainian officials. The paper said last month’s request followed U.S. alarm that Ukraine
By Hani Amara Aug 12 (Reuters) – The General Electricity Company of Libya said on Wednesday that an attack on the South Zawiya substation caused a complete outage and loss of power supply to wide areas south of the city of Zawiya. The Libyan electricity provider said U.S. company GE had halted all w
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was expected to be discharged from hospital on Wednesday, his wife said, according to a report by state news agency Bernama. Anwar, 79, has been under medical observation since undergoing elective laparoscopic surgery to treat a
TOKYO (AP) — Tropical storm Chan-hom moved westward Wednesday after making landfall in the greater Tokyo region the night before, knocking down trees and leaving thousands of homes without power. Five people suffered minor injuries. Chan-hom was significantly weakened after making landfall in southe
Aug 12 (Reuters) – Drone debris has damaged six residential buildings in the Russian Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk, according to the mayor of the major commodities export hub. Mayor Andrei Kravchenko said on Telegram that those injured were receiving medical assistance and a commercial buildin
JAKARTA, Aug 12 (Reuters) – A ferry with around 130 people on board travelling from the Indonesian tourist island of Bali caught fire in waters off Lombok on Wednesday morning and the evacuation of the passengers is underway, officials said. • The KM Putri Yasmin ferry left Padangbai port in Bali fo
BEIJING, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Typhoon Dolphin’s remnants channelled vast amounts of moisture into Beijing and the central province of Henan on Wednesday, as the capital braced to receive more than one-third of its average annual rainfall in 24 hours. Dolphin, the strongest typhoon to hit China this ye
TAIPEI, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s government has condemned “dangerous” planned Chinese navy drills with an Indonesian warship off the island’s east coast, saying Beijing was trying to create a false impression to the international community that it controls those waters. China views democratically
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Wednesday performed its second ballistic missile test in less than a week, its neighbors said, a likely protest of the upcoming South Korea-U.S. military drills that North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said a ballis
Israel, Venezuela Renew Official Ties After 17-Year Diplomatic Freeze By The Media Line Staff Israel and Venezuela agreed to restore consular relations and establish a formal channel for coordination, reopening direct ties between the countries after a 17-year freeze and following cooperation in the
Former US Marine Freed by Russia After 4 Years Amid Severe Health Concerns By The Media Line Staff Former US Marine Robert Gilman was released from a Russian prison after four years in custody following a US request that Moscow free him on humanitarian grounds because of his severely deteriorating h
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s White House has asked the Justice Department to examine potential new charges related to alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool despite the department’s decision to drop prior cases, according to two peopl
By Lucy Craymer and Alasdair Pal WELLINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is set to face National Party lawmakers in Wellington on Wednesday after he called a meeting he said was to address increased speculation about his leadership months away from a general elect
SEOUL, Aug 12 (Reuters) – North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday toward the sea off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast, South Korea’s military said. The missile appeared to have landed outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the sea, NHK reported. North Korea fired the missile fr
Aug 11 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukraine had handed proposals to U.S. negotiators for a plan to end the war with Moscow and suggested that Russia would use its parliamentary election next month as a pretext to declare a new mobilisation. Zelenskiy’s announcement
By Bernardo Caram BRASILIA, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Senator Flavio Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign is preparing a new fiscal framework to replace Brazil’s current budget rules, imposing tighter spending caps as debt rises that could reduce real spending growth to zero, two sources familiar with the mat
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Mountaineers, diplomats and members of civil society gathered in Pakistan’s capital Tuesday evening for a candlelight vigil honoring 10 climbers killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak, as rescuers described an arduous mission to bring their fellow climbers down from one of the world’s
By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Dry taps have become a daily frustration for residents of Johannesburg, a city haemorrhaging more than a third of its water supply, or an estimated 655 million litres (173 million gallons) a day, through burst pipes. “I feel really broken,” 17-year-old s
Aug 11 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked a Saudi ship carrying military equipment in Bab el-Mandeb, Houthi-run news agency Saba reported. There was no immediate Saudi confirmation. The Houthis said on July 20 they would impose a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea in respon
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An estimated 2.4 million Afghan girls remain excluded from secondary education five years after the Taliban took over the country, a U.N. agency said Tuesday, renewing a call for an immediate restoration of their right to education. UNESCO, the Paris-based U.N. Educational, Sci
BUCHAREST, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Romanian army divers destroyed two Gerbera-type drones drifting in the country’s Black Sea exclusive economic zone near the offshore gas project Neptun Deep, Defence Minister Radu Miruta said on Tuesday. The NATO state shares a 614-km (382-mile) land border with Ukraine
By Hamza Ibrahim and Ahmed Kingimi ABUJA, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Ten Nigerian police officers were killed and two wounded in a clash with a gang of suspected bandits in northwestern Kebbi state, police said on Tuesday. • The clash on Monday is the latest incident in Nigeria’s northwest, where heavily ar
CARACAS, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Venezuela and Israel have agreed to re-establish consular services in each country, both governments said on Tuesday, a dramatic shift in the South American nation’s geopolitical alignment after it broke ties with Israel in 2009. Venezuela, which ended relations 17 years
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AP) — Residents in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish-populated southeastern region reacted with a mix of relief, joy and uncertainty on Tuesday after parliament approved a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants, offering them a potential path toward integration into normal l
HARARE, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s national police service said in a post on X on Tuesday that a boat carrying 90 passengers and five crew members had capsized on Lake Kariba and that rescue efforts were under way. A police spokesperson declined to elaborate and said more information would be giv
PARIS/KABUL, Aug 11 (Reuters) – The Taliban have barred an estimated 2.4 million Afghan girls from secondary education since they regained power in Afghanistan in 2021, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said on Tuesday. The Taliban are preparing to mark the fifth a
