LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Princess Eugenie has given birth to a baby girl, her third child and first daughter, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday. Eugenie, the younger daughter of the former Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, and husband, Jack Brooksbank, announced the birth of the 6-pound, 9-o
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds of mourners dressed mostly in white walked through central Kyiv on Tuesday behind the open casket of a university student killed at the weekend by a Russian strike as she helped people wounded in an earlier attack. The farewell for 20-year-old Vitalina Yarovenko began i
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Police from five Amazon countries have arrested hundreds of people and seized timber, minerals and thousands of livestock in one of the largest coordinated crackdowns on environmental crime ever carried out in the world’s largest rainforest. Authorities from Bolivia, Brazil,
GLASGOW, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Scottish police are investigating reports of foreign athletes, identified in the media as boxers from Uganda and Pakistan, who failed to return home after competing in the Commonwealth Games that ended in Glasgow last Sunday. “Police Scotland has received reports of severa
‘Speak Out in Defense of Spain’s Territorial Integrity,’ Spanish MEP Urges Netanyahu Tens of thousands crossed into a city of 84,000 in a matter of days, leaving at least 83 dead on both sides of the border and raising questions about Morocco’s role, Spain’s sovereignty and Israel’s response By Gabr
CAPE TOWN, Aug 4 (Reuters) – An airplane’s tyre burst on landing at Cape Town International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, causing flight disruptions as the main runway was closed though all passengers disembarked the plane safely. South Africa’s airports management company said the Kenya Airways pla
Aug 4 (Reuters) – A projectile struck an Indian-flagged vessel near Yemen, causing it to capsize and sink, but all 14 seafarers on board were rescued, India’s shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal said on Tuesday in a post on X. The crew members, including 13 Indians, were rescued by the Yemeni Coast
By Ahmed Eljechtimi, Victoria Waldersee, George Sargent and Magdalini Gkogkou Aug 4 (Reuters) – Last week’s rush of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta began with a trickle. Encouraged by a handful of viral videos, including some posted by a Spanish news outlet intended to highlight the burde
LONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Britain’s Princess Eugenie, a niece of King Charles, announced on Tuesday the birth of her third child with husband Jack Brooksbank. Eugenie, the younger daughter of the monarch’s disgraced brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, already has t
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Speakers said their hearts were broken and described “unspeakable grief” as relatives, friends and community members gathered Tuesday for the funeral of a Zimbabwean-born mother and her two daughters who were found dead at their British home. Their husband and father, a Briti
MOSCOW, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Russian forces on Tuesday struck three vessels in the Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv and another in the Black Sea off Odesa that were being used “in the interests of the Ukrainian military,” the Russian Defence Ministry said. In the port of Chornomorsk, Russian forces also stru
GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Guatemalan authorities ordered the preventive evacuation of two communities near the Fuego volcano late on Monday as it entered a more intense eruptive phase, spewing ash and sending pyroclastic flows down its slopes. The eruption sent pyroclastic flows — fast-movin
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza City (AP) — Palestinians gathered on Tuesday for a mass funeral of more than 100 bodies finally recovered from a deadly Israeli strike in Gaza in 2023. More than 300 people were killed on Nov. 22, 2023, weeks into the war with Hamas, when warplanes flattened a residential block i
A serviceman in Russian-held Crimea opened fire on fellow soldiers and civilians, killing four people and wounding four, the Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol said Tuesday. The shooting occurred in the village of Khmelnytske, which is part of Sevastopol, said Gov. Mikhail Razvozhayev, without
PARIS (AP) — French and British teams rescued 157 migrants who were trying to cross the English Channel after the engine of their boat caught fire, French maritime authorities said. On Tuesday morning, while the boat was still in France’s search-and-rescue zone near British waters, its engine caught
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A group of eight South Korean students were detained Tuesday for allegedly breaking into a United States air base while shouting anti-U.S. slogans, South Korean authorities said. U.S. military personnel detained the four male and four female students after they allegedly en
HANOI, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Vietnam will build a memorial and renovate a cemetery dedicated to North Korean servicemen killed fighting during the Vietnam War, state media reported, in a rare public acknowledgement of Pyongyang’s military role in the conflict. North Korea sent fighter pilots to North Vi
NAIROBI, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Fourteen people were killed in a landslide near a monastery in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, the state-run Amhara Media Corporation said late on Monday. • The landslide occurred near the Tsadkane Mariam Monastery in Amhara’s North Shewa zone, the broadcaster said. • Search tea
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighters west of Athens raced to exploit a break in high winds on Tuesday, working to strengthen containment lines as forecasters warned that stronger gusts and rising temperatures would return in the coming days. Several fires that burned through mountain communities and c
DHAKA/NEW DELHI, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Bangladesh warned the country’s media not to publicise the statements of exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who is due to give a virtual address on Wednesday from India to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that ousted her. Hasina has remained in I
PARIS, Aug 4 (Reuters) – French coastguards rescued 157 people from a boat carrying migrants that caught fire in the English Channel on Tuesday near the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, the local administration said in a statement. Three coastguard ships rescued those on board, the local French administrat
COLOMBO, Aug 4 – Sri Lanka’s cabinet on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that would extend superior court judges’ tenure by two years, an official said, as the country seeks to clear a backlog of more than 1 million court cases and ease the pressure on its overcrowded prisons. The move fo
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR, India, Aug 4 (Reuters) – India’s Gen-Z Cockroach Janta Party, whose recent protest against exam paper leaks claimed a rare ministerial scalp, has no immediate plans to enter electoral politics, its founder told Reuters on Tuesday. Abhijeet Dipke spearheaded demonstrations
YAOUNDE, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has reshuffled senior military staff, promoting the head of the Presidential Guard to a brigadier general from colonel and replacing commanders in four of the country’s five joint military regions, according to three separate presidential dec
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Ebola has killed more than 1,700 people in eastern Congo in the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease, data showed. As of Tuesday, 3,802 cases had been recorded, with 1,707 deaths, according to the latest government update. It is not clear when the outbreak will reach its peak,
Ukrainian drone attacks in the region around Moscow killed five people, local officials said Tuesday, while authorities in Ukraine said Russian aerial strikes there also caused at least five civilian deaths. Since Russia’s invasion more than four years ago, Ukraine has developed long-range drones th
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Teams in Pakistan searched on foot for the remains of 10 climbers killed in an avalanche on the world’s 12th-highest mountain as poor weather kept helicopters out of the air Tuesday, authorities said. Helicopters were on standby but unable to fly by noon for the ongoing search and r
BEIRUT, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Lebanon on Tuesday marked the sixth year since a deadly blast at Beirut port, with victims and Lebanese officials expressing a renewed but cautious hope that justice could finally be served over one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. The blast on August 4, 20
GENEVA, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Child malnutrition in Afghanistan has reached critical levels and aid shortages are forcing health workers to turn away millions of children and mothers — six in seven of those in need — the U.N. World Food Programme said on Tuesday. Child wasting, the deadliest form of mal
Aug 4 (Reuters) – Ukrainian drone and missile maker Fire Point has secured agreements from over a dozen European defence companies to provide radar, guidance and other systems for the Freyja missile defence project, and is starting to integrate the various systems, its CEO has said. Ukraine had urge
