By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Aug 5 (Reuters) – A powerful El Niño weather event could push an additional nearly 49 million people into acute food insecurity across some of the world’s most vulnerable regions by the end of next year, the World Food Programme said on Wednesday. The U.N. agency said i
DUBAI, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Wednesday they had launched a missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker off the coast of the kingdom’s Red Sea port city of Yanbu. Saudi officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Houthis’ military spokesperson, Yahya
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed 17 people and wounded 44 others overnight into Wednesday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Russia fired 24 ballistic missiles, four other missiles identified as either hypersonic Zircons or
HALBERSTADT, Germany (AP) — A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world’s slowest concert. It has been playing the same piece of music by composer John Cage at a glacial pace for nearly 25 years. A rare chord change on Wednesday — from seven notes to eight once an A4 pipe is added
BANGKOK, Aug 4 (Reuters) – After more than five years of fighting, a rare window for talks over Myanmar’s devastating civil war is appearing, driven by a shift on the battlefield where the military has regained ground and mounting regional pressure to engage. Analysts say the change is most visible
LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is looking at holding a public inquiry into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his actions in the UK, victims minister Alex Davies-Jones told the BBC. Nearly seven years after his death, the Epstein scandal has rocked the Brit
ATHENS, Aug 5 (Reuters) – A 26-year old professional boxer from Afghanistan accused of killing a Scottish woman whose body was found in a suitcase in central Athens last month will appear in court on Wednesday, two police officials said. Police have identified the victim as Elisabeth Jane Ross, 38,
By Tom Balmforth LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – A North Korean missile unit has begun deploying to western Russia and could be equipped with 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers for strikes against Ukraine, an official at Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said. Ukraine is very short of high-end
Aug 5 (Reuters) – A logistics hub of top Russian online retailer Wildberries caught fire after a Ukrainian drone attack that injured one person, Tula regional governor Dmitry Milyayev said on Telegram on Wednesday. Wildberries, which has seen over a dozen of its facilities damaged in drone attacks r
By Yimou Lee TAIPEI, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Taiwan began major military drills on Wednesday to test commanders’ ability to fight on the fly when enemy movements defy expectations, while temporarily limiting internet access for the first time, senior Taiwan officials said. The 10-day annual Han Kuang exer
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government on Tuesday announced it is reducing its diplomatic presence in Argentina after renewed attacks by Argentine President Javier Milei on his counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. It is the first time in recent history that such a move takes place between the two ne
SAN JUAN ALOTENANGO, Guatemala (AP) — Hundreds of people were evacuated after Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted, sending ash, gas and lava down its slopes. Authorities remain on alert as the volcano, one of Central America’s most active, continues to pose a threat to nearby communities. Brought to y
LHASA, Tibet (AP) — Kalsang Lhamo traces a series of vertical strokes, slow but firm, practicing Tibetan calligraphy. A 73-year-old retired nurse, she has spoken Tibetan all her life but never learned to write it. Now, in classes at a center for older adults, she immerses herself in the script. Lham
Aug 4 (Reuters) – Social media platform X said on Tuesday it was complying with a Turkish court order to block access in the country to jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s presidential candidacy office account, but was challenging the order in court. • An Istanbul court ordered X to restrict acce
VERNON, British Columbia (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada, officials said Tuesday, making it one of the country’s most destructive fires in recent years. Dan Wilson, chief of the Okanagan Indian Band, said the Bradley Creek wildfire
SAO PAULO, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Brazil has informed Argentina’s ambassador that bilateral relations have been downgraded to the chargé d’affaires level, a source in the Brazilian government told Reuters on Tuesday. Brazil’s ambassador to Argentina will not return to Buenos Aires after Argentine Preside
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) – A group of Republican and Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday called for elections in Venezuela, seven months after President Donald Trump’s administration removed then-President Nicolas Maduro and installed his vice president as acting president. R
SANTIAGO, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Chile’s Congress on Tuesday approved a sweeping economic and tax reform package championed by right-wing President Jose Antonio Kast, which aims to boost economic growth in the world’s largest copper producer through tax cuts, regulatory changes and incentives for investm
LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Antisemitism in Britain remains close to record levels, a charity which provides security for Jewish communities said on Wednesday, with almost 2,000 incidents recorded in the first six months of the year. Two Jewish worshippers were stabbed on a street in the Golders Green
Berlin Pride Attack Exposes Europe’s Changing Terrorism Threat Online radicalization, lone-actor violence, and Iran-linked networks are placing European security services under pressure from distinct but increasingly simultaneous threats By Giorgia Valente / The Media Line The deadly attack near Ber
Ireland’s Boycott of Israeli Defense Firms Leaves New Government Jet Without Key Landing System By The Media Line Staff Ireland’s decision to exclude an Israel-made landing system from its new €53 million government aircraft after adopting a policy against awarding defense contracts to Israeli compa
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) – The family of a man from El Salvador, who died in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in New Jersey, alleged medical negligence during his custody and demanded an independent investigation into his death. ICE said on Monday that
Aug 5 (Reuters) – Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with waves of ballistic missiles early on Wednesday, triggering fires in a 20-storey apartment block and other buildings, the city’s mayor said. “In the Obolonskyi district, a fire broke out in a 20-story residential building, like
SEOUL, Aug 5 (Reuters) – North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, criticised in a statement Japan’s recent test-firing of a Tomahawk missile, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday. Pyongyang will make new military choices against Japan’s threat, Kim added. (Reporting by
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted the U.S. Justice Department’s request to dismiss cases against members of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia who took part in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a court filing. The ruling fr
By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) – The United States has revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador in Washington over Brazil withholding formal diplomatic approval of the Trump administration’s appointed ambassador to Brasilia and denying visas to several U.S. diplomats, a
By Maria Cheng OTTAWA, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Marc-Aurèle Chabot, a former active-duty Canadian soldier arrested last July for taking “concrete actions to facilitate terrorist activity,” is no longer a member of the armed forces, according to the Canadian military. Chabot is believed to be the first acti
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) – A SpaceX rocket piece floating in space since last year is on track to smash into the moon at high speed early Wednesday morning. The school-bus-size object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched a lunar lander from Firefly Ae
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has approved pay rises of up to 80% for members of the armed forces, the presidency said on Tuesday, in a move aimed at boosting troop welfare as the country battles insurgency, banditry and kidnappings. The salary increase com
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya has introduced a cap on the amount of carbon emissions credits it will authorize for sale to overseas buyers, unveiling one of Africa’s most detailed rule books for international carbon trading. The country has set a 10 million metric ton (11,023,113 ton) carbon dioxide e
