By Yuliia Dysa KYIV, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Allies have supplied just a third of the air defence missiles to Ukraine in 2026 compared with 2025, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday, as Russia escalates strikes on the capital of Kyiv and the country’s southern port hub. The president also warn
DUBAI, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Iran and Oman have reached an understanding on the geographic coordinates for a shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz, and a joint announcement is being finalised, provided certain third parties did not interfere, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei sa
NEW DELHI, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday that the ban on her Awami League party should be lifted and reiterated that she would return to her country in December. Hasina’s comments were made during a media interaction hosted by the Foreign Corres
Aug 5 (Reuters) – Meta Platforms’ Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan apologised to India’s information technology minister for briefly restricting a post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July, he said in a statement on Wednesday. “I apologised to the minister on behalf of Meta for the error
BRASILIA, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the leading right-wing challenger to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in October’s presidential election, named Congressman Alfredo Gaspar as his running mate on Wednesday. The announcement follows weeks of uncertainty over B
BERLIN (AP) — A Hamburg court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced seven members and one supporter of the right-wing extremist group “Last Defense Wave” to prison on charges including attempted murder, arson and aggravated assault. The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court also convicted the defendants of
MOSCOW (AP) — The director of a factory supplying drones to the Russian military was badly wounded and his driver was killed when the car they were in exploded, news reports said Wednesday. The state Tass and RIA Novosti agencies said that Vladimir Tkachuk was hospitalized in grave condition followi
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico will implement water rationing measures in San Juan and other major cities as a drought grips the U.S. territory with no relief in sight. More than 180,000 customers will be without water for 48 hours at a time starting Friday as part of an alternating schedu
MADRID, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Spain’s Ceuta, still reeling from a rush of 72,000 migrants arriving on its shores in one week, is seeking the transfer of hundreds of unaccompanied minors still in the enclave to mainland Spain, local leaders confirmed on Wednesday. Though the vast majority of migrants hav
LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Four men were stabbed in a street near London’s Covent Garden district on Wednesday and a woman was arrested in what police said they believed to be a “mental health related incident”. The woman, who was in her 40s, was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive we
LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Former British pop star Paul Gadd, better known by his stage name Gary Glitter, appeared in a London court on Wednesday accused of historic sex offences against a young girl. The 82-year-old, who rose to fame in the 1970s as a “glam-rock” star, is accused of abusing the g
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African government is pushing for Africa-wide talks while seeking to manage the fallout over anti-immigration protests that have forced many migrants to leave the country and caused diplomatic tensions with some its African counterparts. The country has faced a backlash
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will make his first trip to Latin America as pontiff in November, returning to a region where he spent much of his ministry, with visits to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, the Vatican announced Wednesday. The Nov. 6-17 trip will include stops in Montevideo, Paysandú and
BUDAPEST, Aug 5 (Reuters) – The parliamentary group of Hungary’s ruling Tisza party proposes that parliament should elect the country’s new president on August 11, according to an official proposal published on parliament’s website on Wednesday. Electing a new president and drafting a new constituti
By Adriana Barrera and Ana Isabel Martinez MEXICO CITY, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is evaluating potential pilot fracking projects in the northern states of Coahuila and Tamaulipas that could help boost domestic gas production, according to four sources familiar with the d
By Leila Miller BUENOS AIRES, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Argentina will not take diplomatic action in response to Brazil downgrading diplomatic ties, Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno said on Wednesday during a press conference. Brazil told Argentina its relations will be handled at the charge d’affaires level,
By Mark Trevelyan Aug 5 (Reuters) – The head of a Russian drone factory was seriously wounded and his driver killed when their car was blown up near the city of Yekaterinburg, in what appeared to be the latest in a series of targeted attacks linked to the war in Ukraine. State news agency TASS cited
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Search teams backed by military helicopters recovered the bodies of renowned British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja and three other missing climbers on Wednesday, bringing the number of bodies recovered from Broad Peak to seven nearly a week after an avalanche swept away a 10-membe
LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s opposition Conservative Party defended the selection of a former neo-Nazi who had been jailed for hate crimes as a local election candidate, saying on Wednesday that he was rehabilitated and could help fight antisemitism. Joshua Bonehill-Paine in 201
BERLIN, Aug 5 (Reuters) – A DHL cargo aircraft hit an unknown object as it was climbing away from Leipzig/Halle airport in eastern Germany overnight, prompting an unscheduled landing in Hanover, a source familiar with the incident told Reuters on Wednesday. Authorities said they were investigating a
BERLIN, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Russia is intensifying disinformation campaigns in Germany, German security sources told Reuters, ahead of state elections in which the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) appears set to make major gains. Germany is holding elections in Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklen
MOSCOW, Aug 5 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday named Denis Lyamin to head Russia’s Unmanned Systems Forces, a newly established branch of the military that will be responsible for drone warfare. Putin announced the appointment as part of what he called “refinement” of the military s
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Olympic champion swimmer Chad le Clos says his home in South Africa was destroyed in a fire a day after he became the most decorated athlete ever at the Commonwealth Games. Le Clos said in a post on his Instagram account on Tuesday that his apartment in Cape Town was o
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan kicked off annual military exercises Wednesday aimed at simulating a response to a potential Chinese invasion of the self-governed island Beijing claims as its own. The live-fire exercises will test the Taiwanese army’s ability to sustain 24-hour defense operations as we
By Jana Winter Aug 5 (Reuters) – FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational crime including fentanyl, cyber fraud and child sexual exploitation.
Aug 5 (Reuters) – At least 56 people have been executed in Iran on national security-related charges since March 19, including 27 in cases linked to protests at the start of the year, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday. Volker Türk added in the statement that there has been a rise in exec
By Peter Hobson and Helen Clark CANBERRA/PERTH, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Australia’s energy minister Chris Bowen said on Wednesday that plans by the Northern Territory to use its large-scale shale gas resources to power data centres would run counter to proposed national standards, casting doubt over the T
MOSCOW, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday that it had struck seven logistics centres in Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight used to store or distribute dual-use goods and drone components, and that its forces had hit three cargo ships in the Black Sea. Reuters could not independently
BRUSSELS, Aug 5 (Reuters) – The European Union will use €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) taken from interest generated by frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine, the European Commission said on Wednesday. The money, transferred to the bloc on August 3, came from interest on cash balances, part of Russian
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Malaysia will not proceed with repatriating 5,000 Myanmar refugees if their lives are found to be at risk upon their return, a government spokesman said on Wednesday, as authorities continued to screen the refugees ahead of the planned handover. Prime Minister Anwar I
