By Nate Raymond Aug 7 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to end temporary protections from deportation that had allowed hundreds of South Sudanese nationals to live and work in the United States. U.S. District Judge Patti Saris in B
By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANG BUA THONG, Thailand, Aug 7 (Reuters) – The boy shot his grandparents dead at dawn on Friday in their two-storey house bordering rice fields on the outskirts of Bangkok. Each was killed by a single gunshot to the head, a Thai police official said. By n
BANGKOK (AP) — At least seven people were shot dead on Friday by a 14-year-old student in Nonthaburi province, a northern suburb of the Thai capital Bangkok. The boy killed five members of the staff at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School and the two grandparents with whom he lived, the authorities said.
WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – First used in the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. Patriot air defense system has seen demand spike sharply this year, with supplies of interceptor missiles depleted by Ukraine’s war against the Russian invasion and the widening war in the Middle East. Ukraine is urgently seekin
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An international police operation led by Spanish authorities dismantled a major criminal network involved in trafficking migrants, drugs and weapons across the Western Mediterranean, the European Union police agency Europol and Spain’s Civil Guard announced Friday. The
MADRID, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Spanish police have dismantled what they described as one of the largest people-smuggling networks operating in the Mediterranean, believed to have brought more than 2,000 migrants into the country, authorities said on Friday. “The Civil Guard and National Police … successf
MADRID/ROME, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Spain threatened on Friday to impose reciprocal measures on travellers from Italy unless Rome lifts by Sunday the border controls it imposed last week following a mass influx of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. The Spanish government said Italy’s decision to
Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have signed a mutual defense agreement, while the Iran-backed Houthi rebels have stepped up attacks on Saudi-linked targets. Here’s a look at the latest developments across the Middle East on Friday. Full coverage can be found here. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia, nuclear po
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will on Saturday make his first official visit to Serbia, one of the few European countries that have maintained friendly relations with Russia despite its invasion of Ukraine. The office of Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic
MILAN (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will meet with survivors of clergy abuse during a four-day trip to France next month that will include a visit to UNESCO headquarters, a meeting with French bishops in Lourdes and an interreligious meeting in the border city of Metz, the Vatican announced on Friday. The Vat
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A suspended Catholic priest on a tiny Caribbean island is embracing calypso to make his voice heard on topics including Gaza and sexual abuse within the church. Father Gerard Paul, who hails from Grenada, can no longer officiate masses, funerals, weddings or baptisms aft
MADRID, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Spain’s leftist government expects to transfer some migrant minors from overcrowded reception centres in the North African enclave of Ceuta to the mainland within weeks, alleviating the migration crisis in the tiny territory after last week’s deadly border rush, Youth Minis
LONDON (AP) — A proposal to limit “vertical drinking,” a bureaucratic euphemism for having a pint while standing, has turned into a political headache for one local government council in London. Politicians from Prime Minister Andy Burnham to London Mayor Sadiq Khan have piled in to decry the idea f
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, Aug 7 – Three prisoners were killed and at least 23 others injured in two prison riots in Sri Lanka, a senior official said on Friday, as unrest continued across the island nation’s overcrowded prison system. One prisoner was killed and 10 injured in a riot that began l
By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Within hours of a shooting rampage on the outskirts of Bangkok that left at least eight dead, Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Friday vowed to introduce a new firearms control law in Southeast Asia’s largest gun-owning nation. Anutin, who
By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Right-wing lawyer Abelardo De La Espriella is set to be sworn in as Colombia’s new president on Friday after pledging a hard line on security, drug trafficking and the economy. De La Espriella, 48, won June’s runoff on promises to crack down on armed gr
BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo authorities released 15 prisoners and handed them over to rebels from the AFC/M23 movement on Friday, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which facilitated the first known transfer of p
By Luc Cohen Aug 7 (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s streak of courtroom defeats in its effort to obtain state voter rolls reached 21 this year when a judge ruled this week that states are not required to share the records with the federal government. With President Donald Trump’s Republicans d
By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Bangladeshi cricket great Shakib Al Hasan, an ally of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said he is ready to return from a two-year exile, face trial on charges including murder and play a farewell series if the government guarantees his safety. Shaki
TOKYO (AP) — Typhoon Dolphin moved over Japan’s southern remote islands Friday, causing a main airport on Okinawa to close and grounding all flights in and out of the island, while sending hundreds of people to take shelter at evacuation centers. The typhoon was just north of the main island of Okin
By Layli Foroudi, Alvise Armellini and Amina Ismail ORLEANS, France/ROME/BRUSSELS, Aug 7 (Reuters) – On a day when temperatures were soaring past 37 degrees Celsius outside, the prisoner sat in his cell with wet towels around his window bars, trying to explain to the visiting politician how it felt
KIMANA, Kenya (AP) — The carcass of one elephant lies on a dusty road, while another has been almost completely eaten by scavengers, leaving just the skull. They are among 15 elephants that died of suspected cyanide poisoning in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park after eating tomatoes in nearby farms. I
July 31-Aug. 6, 2026 Hundreds of people were evacuated after Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted, sending ash, gas and lava down its slopes. A plane carrying European tourists to view the famed Nazca Lines crashed into a field outside the Peruvian city of Nazca, killing 13 people, local authorities sa
BANGKOK (AP) — Police were responding to a shooting Friday at a high school in Thailand where deaths and injuries were reported. ____ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Brought to you by www.srnnews.com
NONTHABURI, Thailand (AP) — A student shot several people at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding several others, police said. The shooting happened at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi province northwest of the national capital, Royal Thai Pol
MOSCOW, Aug 7 (Reuters) – In the space of three weeks, Vasily Klimov’s online shopping pick-up point in Moscow has gone from a healthy small business to a loss-making operation he is now desperately trying to sell. Klimov runs one of 98,000 pick-up points in Russia and neighbouring countries where c
SEOUL, Aug 7 (Reuters) – As the Korean Peninsula swelters through a heat wave, North Korean state media has touted everything from dog-meat soup to chicken broth as ways to cope, while portraying Kim Jong Un as a leader who endures harsh conditions alongside his people. State television reported on
MANILA, Aug 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department and the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Friday reiterated their calls for the unconditional release of Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners. On Monday, Aung San Suu Kyi met with a re
By Tim Hepher, Giulia Segreti and Allison Lampert TOULOUSE, France, August 7 (Reuters) – Deep inside the carcass of a disused turboprop aircraft, engineer Jonathan Beck squeezes between rows of tanks as he demonstrates how his French startup plans to challenge ageing Canadair water-bombers in combat
By Emily Rose BEIT EL, West Bank, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich faces a fight for political survival in elections in October after angering his fellow West Bank settlers by voting not to punish ultra-Orthodox Jews who refuse to serve in the military. The poli
