SINGAPORE, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dwindled to 33 vessels from Monday to Thursday this week, data showed, versus 50 in the week-ago period, as markets watched talks between Iran and Oman for signs of progress in reopening the key waterway. Four vessels tra
By Chalinee Thirasupa BANG KRUAI DISTRICT, Thailand, Aug 7 (Reuters) – At least one teacher was killed and four other people injured by a student who opened fire at a school in Thailand on Friday before killing himself, authorities said. Lt. Col. Dechrapee Kongdee Nonthaburi Provincial Police Comman
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who claimed asylum in Australia in March have been granted citizenship. Fatemeh Pasandideh and Atefeh Ramezanisadeh said in a statement Thursday that Immigration Minister Tony Burke swore them in the day before at a citizensh
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said this week he was open to a referendum on the country’s electoral system, sparking vigorous debate, with critics saying any such move would be seen as a “power grab” by the larger parties. New Zealand curr
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dozens of people lined up in a pink church at Amsterdam’s Pride festival on Thursday to get married, or at least married for the day. The Married For A Day event was part of the annual event’s celebration of marriage, held a short walk away from where the world’s first legalized sam
By Lucy Craymer SUVA, Fiji, Aug 7 (Reuters) – The Solomon Islands is repairing ties with traditional partners including the U.S. and Australia while maintaining its “friends to all and enemy to none” foreign policy, Foreign Minister Rick Houenipwela said on Friday, signalling a broader diplomatic ap
TOKYO, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people in southwestern Japan were ordered to evacuate and more than 500 flights cancelled on Friday as slow-moving Typhoon Dolphin approached the region to bring violent winds, heavy rain and high waves. The Category 1 typhoon had maximum sustained w
By Yimou Lee and Fabian Hamacher NEW TAIPEI, Taiwan Aug 7 (Reuters) – Taiwanese troops on Thursday practiced defending a bridge at a critical chokepoint that could give Chinese forces a shortcut to take the capital Taipei, as annual war games entered their second day testing the island’s ability to
Wars Collide in the Caspian: Ukraine Strike Exposes the Iran-Russia Connection The incident may appear to mark a new convergence between two geographically separate wars. In reality, Iran’s involvement in Russia’s military campaign began years before the Caspian strike By Giorgia Valente / The Media
By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY, Aug 6 (Reuters) – The former governor of Mexico’s southern Guerrero state has been arrested for allegedly ordering the destruction of evidence that could have helped shed light on the whereabouts of 43 students who disappeared in 2014, authorities said on Thursday. Angel
By Lucy Craymer SUVA, Fiji, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Pacific Island foreign ministers are expected to debate on Friday whether to issue a joint statement on China’s July missile launch, with New Zealand pushing for a response but acknowledging divisions could prevent agreement, New Zealand’s foreign minist
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico began sending 1,500 more troops to the western state of Michoacan on Thursday, a day after the U.S. announced the suspension of government operations in that region — including halting avocado inspections required for their export — because of a non-specific threat to U.S.
Aug 6 (Reuters) – U.S.-backed negotiations between Venezuela’s interim government and a faction of the opposition began on Thursday afternoon, the two sides said, after nearly a week of delays. The talks are aimed at remaking the country’s political system ahead of eventual elections. • Jorge Rodrig
By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Morocco is ready to cooperate with Spain and other European partners on the return of unaccompanied minors who were among tens of thousands of migrants who crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, state news agency MAP reported on Thursday. “Morocco has
RIYADH, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia expects imminent coordinated attacks from the north and south by Iraqi militias and Yemen’s Houthis under the supervision of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a senior Saudi official said on Thursday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, sa
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have detained the former governor of the southern state Guerrero for his alleged involvement in the disappearance of 43 students in 2014 — a case that has grown to become a symbol for impunity and state involvement in cartel violence. Federal prosecutors said T
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police on Thursday formally accused 16 current and former employees of airline Voepass for the Aug. 9, 2024 crash that killed all 62 people on board the plane. Investigators named several acts of alleged malpractice, omission and negligence by the company. Voepass o
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that trade negotiations with the United States had turned “nasty” after President Donald Trump derided America’s neighbor and its leadership while threatening to expand tariffs. Carney said Canada remained engaged in the negotiations d
Casualties Reported After Explosive Device Detonates Inside Bus in Druze-Majority Area Near Damascus By Rizik Alabi / The Media Line Staff [DAMASCUS] A number of people were killed and wounded Thursday evening after an explosive device planted inside a bus detonated in the city of Jaramana, in the D
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Wearing rainbow flags, sequins and sometimes hardly anything at all, dozens of people lined up in a pink church at Amsterdam’s Pride festival on Thursday to get married, or at least married for the day. The Married For A Day event was part of the annual event’s celebration of marria
KARACHI, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Pakistan has imposed further restrictions on foreign media outlets operating in the country, for the first time seeking to routinely control the movement of Pakistani nationals working for them. Until the new government restrictions were first circulated widely on Sunday,
By Kristina Cooke, Andrew Chung and Daniel Trotta Aug 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday in a new but narrower attempt to curtail birthright citizenship, once again challenging a provision of the U.S. Constitution even though the Supreme Court rejected
JARAMANA, Syria (AP) — An explosion Thursday in a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus killed at least two people and wounded several others, Syria’s Health Ministry said. Syrian state television cited an unnamed security official as saying the explosion in Jaramana was caused by an explosive devic
LONDON (AP) — Amanda Knox, the American student convicted and later acquitted of the gruesome murder and sexual assault of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher 19 years ago in Italy, has defended herself against charges from Kercher’s sister that a show she is performing at the Edinburgh Fringe fes
By Firas Makdesi Aug 6 (Reuters) – A bomb planted in a minibus killed two people and wounded 14 others on the outskirts of Syria’s capital Damascus on Thursday night, officials said. The blast occurred in the predominantly Druze area of Jaramana outside Damascus. A security source told the state-run
By Nivedita Balu TORONTO, Aug 6 (Reuters) – A wildfire prompted an evacuation alert on Wednesday about 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) from Vancouver, one of Canada’s largest metropolitan areas, as blazes in Western Canada continued to spread due to dry and hot weather. About 35 properties in the villag
By Sneha S K Aug 6 (Reuters) – Michigan health officials on Thursday advised residents to resume eating lettuce and salad greens, citing a slowdown in new cyclosporiasis infections, after reporting 12,485 cases linked to the outbreak, up 267 cases from a day earlier. The worst of the outbreak has oc
ISTANBUL, Aug 6 (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and several other countries on Thursday strongly condemned what they described as ongoing Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip, including attacks on healthcare facilities, medical infrastructur
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities sought and won parliamentary approval Thursday to deploy troops to Gaza as part of the international force proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace to secure the territory following the devastating Israel-Hamas war. The successful motion, br
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania raced on Thursday to sink four barges laden with rock into the Danube River in an attempt to redirect water downstream toward a nuclear power plant, to buy more time before its second reactor is likely forced offline due to record-low water levels. Extreme heatwaves
