By Iñigo Alexander and Paola Chiomante TULUM, Mexico, July 28 (Reuters) – A record wave of brown, smelly seaweed is washing up on beaches along Mexico’s Caribbean coast, forcing closures in top tourist destinations and inflicting mounting economic damage on hotels, restaurants and shops. The unprece
DUBAI, July 28 (Reuters) – Iran has executed two men for their role in nationwide protests in January, state media reported on Tuesday, among a series of death sentences that rights groups say have been handed out since the start of the war with the United States. Abolfazl Sepahi-Badjani and Amirhos
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Iraq’s new prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, arrived in Turkey on Tuesday for talks that were expected to include the construction of a pipeline to Turkey aimed at reducing the exposure of Iraq’s oil exports to tensions in the Gulf region. Al-Zaidi’s meetings with President Recep T
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish firefighter Javier García has never faced anything like the record blaze raging near Madrid in his two decades protecting woodlands and rural communities. “This doesn’t have a precedent,” García told The Associated Press by phone before another long day ahead. The out
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunmen killed a high-ranking local Taliban official in Afghanistan’s northwestern province of Badakhshan on Tuesday in a rare targeted killing in the country. Two gunmen shot Zabihullah Amiri, Badakhshan’s director of information and culture, as he headed from a local distr
By Giuseppe Fonte and Angelo Amante ROME, July 28 (Reuters) – Italy’s League party, a member of the ruling coalition, said on Tuesday that any decision on whether to tap a European Union scheme to fund military spending would be up to parliament, after the foreign minister said Rome was ready to acc
BEIJING, July 28 (Reuters) – China’s No.2 leader, Premier Li Qiang, visited the city of Tangshan on Tuesday for the 50th anniversary of a 1976 earthquake that killed a quarter of a million people – a trip usually made by Chinese presidents. Li paid his respects on President Xi Jinping’s behalf, stat
LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) – Moldovan businessman Veaceslav Platon is fighting extradition from Britain on charges relating to an alleged $22 billion money laundering ring, giving evidence in a London court on Tuesday that his prosecution is politically motivated. Platon, 53, was arrested in London l
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Since Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the war has repeatedly spilled across Romania’s border as drones violate the airspace of the neighboring European Union and NATO member. Now Romania is trying something new to stop the incursions: shooting down the d
CAIRO (AP) — A group of protesters stormed a key energy complex in western Libya amid anti- government demonstrations over ongoing power outages, with officials warning Tuesday that the incident could trigger a nationwide power blackout. The General Electricity Company warned in a statement Tuesday
SEOUL, July 28 (Reuters) – South Korean authorities ordered brief neighbourhood evacuations on Tuesday after a leak of white phosphorus inside the U.S. Osan Air Base south of Seoul, the Safety Ministry said. No casualties were reported and the evacuation notice for residents was lifted after about h
By Yves Herman and Javi West Larrañaga BORDEAUX, France/ONDA, Spain, July 28 (Reuters) – Firefighters raced on Tuesday to subdue huge wildfires that have forced unprecedented evacuations of tens of thousands of people across France and Spain, as Western Europe braced for another heatwave. The fires
By Alistair Smout LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) – Britain’s governing Labour Party has caught up with, or overtaken, Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK in the polls, according to three different surveys which showed a bounce for new leader Andy Burnham a week after he became prime minister. Farage’s anti
By Timour Azhari and Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, July 28 (Reuters) – Oman has won backing from Gulf states for a plan that would let Tehran collect voluntary fees to use the Strait of Hormuz, a Gulf source told Reuters on Tuesday, a path towards ending the disruption to oil trade caused by the U.S.-Israeli
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA, July 28 (Reuters) – Nigeria said South Africa had agreed to bring to justice those responsible for attacks on foreign nationals, while Abuja was compiling compensation claims for losses suffered by Nigerians as both countries pledged to tone down rhetoric over the violence. T
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Chad announced plans Monday to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, accusing the judicial body of ineffectiveness and bias against African countries. The West African country submitted a letter to the United Nations to begin withdrawing from the court, which was esta
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Nicosia’s swanky nightclubs, bohemian cafes and crowded bars sit just steps away from guard posts, barbed wire and sandbags marking one of Europe’s last frozen conflicts. A United Nations-controlled buffer zone cuts through the Cypriot capital’s medieval center, separating bre
ROME (AP) — Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster spewed radiation across Europe and turned Italy off nuclear power, Premier Giorgia Meloni ’s government is laying the groundwork to bring it back as the country seeks to improve its energy security. The government is counting on a new generation
RIYADH, July 28 (Reuters) – Oman has presented a proposal to Iran for a joint regional mechanism to manage the Strait of Hormuz with voluntary fees, a Gulf source told Reuters on Tuesday. Under the Omani proposal, which has regional backing, Iran would not exercise sole control of the vital waterway
NICOSIA, July 28 (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres begins a fresh effort on Tuesday to coax Cyprus’ rival sides back into peace talks after nearly a decade of deadlock. His first visit to the island as U.N. chief comes amid signs the sides may be ready to negotiate again, but they
BEIJING, July 28 (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping hopes Slovakia will play a constructive role in the development of European Union’s relations with China, focusing on properly handling conflicts and differences, according to a report on Tuesday from state news agency Xinhua. The key is to e
DUBAI, July 28 (Reuters) – Iran’s foreign minister discussed issues related to the security of the Strait of Hormuz in separate phone calls with his Saudi and Omani counterparts on Monday evening, according to a statement published on his Telegram channel on Tuesday. The statement said Abbas Araqchi
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Lawyers were making closing statements Tuesday in the Australian trial of a British entertainer known as Yung Filly on charges that he raped and choked a fan following a music performance two years ago. The 30-year-old entertainer, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Ba
By Steve Holland, Gram Slattery and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump voiced irritation with Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of their White House meeting on Tuesday, complaining that details of the Israeli prime minister’s planned talking points on Iran had surfaced pu
BEIJING, July 28 (Reuters) – The remnants of Typhoon Noul pushed deeper into China on Tuesday, threatening heavy flooding across a broad swathe of the country’s southern and central provinces as forecasters warned the weakened storm could linger inland longer than usual. Torrential rain, fuelled by
TAIPEI, July 28 (Reuters) – Taiwan will test relocating weapons production lines and converting civilian factories for military use in annual drills next month, the defence ministry said on Tuesday, aiming to sustain combat operations if Chinese attacks hit supply hubs. The exercise, part of the ann
July 28 (Reuters) – An apartment building in Chekhov near Russian capital Moscow has been hit in a drone attack, regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said in a Telegram post on Tuesday. Vorobyov accompanied his post with a photograph of a tall building with blown-out windows and black smoke rising from
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — An angry Cypriot defense minister on Monday ordered an investigation into why National Guard engineers ignored regulations and blew up discarded ammunition that ended up sparking a fast-moving brush fire. Defense Minister Vassilis Palmas expressed “intense dissatisfaction and
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A shooter fired at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto early Monday morning, police said, the second time this year someone shot at the building. No one was injured in the incident, but a single shell casing was found and there was damage to the building’s facade. Toront
By Timour Azhari RIYADH, July 27 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthi Movement aims to replicate Iran’s Hormuz Strait strategy in the Red Sea by disrupting shipping in the Bab el-Mandeb and has been emboldened by an insufficient international response, Yemen’s top diplomat said on Monday. “The Houthis want to
