By Andrew Chung August 3 (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined on Monday to halt $655.5 million in damages that Palestinian authorities were ordered to pay plaintiffs in a U.S. civil lawsuit concerning attacks that killed and injured Americans in Israel from 2002 to 2004. S
By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Spanish authorities should have anticipated the consequences of a court ruling that weakened a key deterrent against illegal migration and contributed to last week’s mass crossings into the enclave of Ceuta in northern Morocco, a senior Moroccan official
JERUSALEM, Israel (AP) — The Board of Peace official overseeing Gaza’s postwar transition met on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a statement, in part to discuss a new disarmament deal the board had reached with the militant Hamas group. Nikolay Mladenov, the high
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Americans picked Democrats over Republicans as better stewards of the economy for the first time in nearly a decade in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, which also found their approval of President Donald Trump’s performance falling to 35%. The finding, in a poll con
Aug 3 (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council is expected to hold another informal poll this month as it selects the next U.N. secretary-general, the council president for August said on Monday, while indicating that a decision is still some way off. Portugal’s Antonio Guterres steps down as
Millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims are making their way to the Iraqi holy city of Karbala ahead of Arbaeen, one of the world’s largest annual religious gatherings. Many walk for days while others travel from neighboring countries, including Iran, crossing border checkpoints before continuing toward
CEUTA, Spain (AP) — The teenage girl made it through the waves to Spanish territory. Her little brother did not, drowning in the Mediterranean, while their mother disappeared in the chaos when tens of thousands of people surged through the breakwater, trying to leave Morocco behind. The tragic story
Aug 3 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismissed Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, Olha Stefanishyna, in a decree published on Monday. Stefanishyna had been in her job for nearly a year. Her departure had been expected for several weeks. Her departure coincides with a shake-up in r
HAVANA (AP) — Alexey Ríos García awoke not to his bed in Cuba ‘s capital on Monday, but to an ocean breeze and the concrete of Havana’s famous seaside boulevard. The 30-year-old construction worker ended up curling up with other Cubans on the city’s sea wall, the Malecón, in a desperate attempt to e
WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said Iran faced “decapitation” if it did not agree a pact to end the conflict between the two nations, saying Tehran had one last chance to strike a deal. “I think we’re going to maybe get something, but I want to give them every la
By Andrius Sytas and Charlotte Van Campenhout VILNIUS/AMSTERDAM, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Lithuanian police started an investigation on Monday after an assistant at the Powerlifting Championships said he sabotaged a Black athlete’s squat attempt due to racism – a statement he later said was written to mock
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Embassy in Rome on Monday blamed Ukraine for a deadly weekend bombing at a Moscow restaurant, describing it as an attempt to intimidate the Italian community in Russia. The embassy said “Kyiv terrorists” wanted to “scare the Italians working in Russia and to show them that
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas CAIRO/GAZA, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Palestinians in Gaza said on Monday Donald Trump’s touting of a deal aimed at disarming Hamas and ending the war was out of touch with their worsening reality, after Israel killed 18 people in one of the deadliest days since a c
By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Six Saudi-flagged supertankers have changed course in the Gulf of Aden in recent days and are heading to southern Africa following threats by Yemen’s Houthi movement to target Saudi shipping, tracking data showed on Monday. The tankers, which were empty of
BUDAPEST/BUCHAREST, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Romania blew up a rock outcrop on Monday to help redirect vital cooling water from the drought-hit Danube river to its sole working nuclear reactor, an unprecedented measure underlining the scale of an energy crunch across the region. In neighbouring Hungary, au
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana’s parliament passed a bill that could send cocoa farmers to prison for up to 20 years if they convert their farms to other uses without government approval, according to a copy of the bill seen by The Associated Press. The new measure was passed on Thursday, but the content
OKSBOL, Denmark, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Around 1,600 Danish military recruits on Monday began the country’s new extended conscription, embarking on an 11-month service period as Denmark accelerates its defence build-up driven by Arctic security pressures and the war in Ukraine. Denmark said in 2024 it wo
LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party said on Monday that if elected, it would stop asylum seekers with what it called the largest military operation in the Channel since World War Two, as it faces falling popularity and questions over its funding. Pointing to a migration cr
By Louisa Gouliamaki, Vania Turner and Angelos Tsatsis PSATHA, Greece, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Greek firefighters battled a wildfire northwest of Athens for a fourth day on Monday after strong and erratic winds helped it devastate homes, pine forests and thousands of hectares of farmland, forc
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s military unveiled a monument to an older brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who was killed during a hostage rescue operation in the East African country in 1976. The statue of Yonatan Netanyahu holding an assault rifle was unveiled on Saturday by Uga
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Numerous governments across Central and Eastern Europe are taking steps to conserve electricity and avert an energy crisis as record low water levels on the Danube River have forced power plants to the brink of shutting down. Persistent drought and successive extreme heat wa
TOKYO (AP) — Nissan Motor Corp. reported Monday that it returned to profit in the first quarter of the fiscal year, helped by cost cutting measures and improved sales in some markets. Nissan, based in the port city of Yokohama, said it recorded a 3.8 billion yen ($24 million) net profit from April t
KYIV, Aug 3 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy put Ukraine’s chief peace negotiator in charge of foreign intelligence on Monday, the latest move in an ongoing shakeup that included replacing the defence minister in July, which has caused public anger. Zelenskiy said Rustem Umerov, moved to th
CEUTA, Spain, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants set up camp on a beach in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday as local authorities struggled to cope with the thousands still in the tiny territory after a massive border rush last week. Spain estimates that about 69,500 migrants have
LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Russian anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin said on Monday that he had left the country for the time being, weeks after Moscow designated him a “foreign agent” and disqualified him from running in a parliamentary election. “Hi everyone! I have some good news. I’m alive and
BRUSSELS, Aug 3 (Reuters) – More must be done to strengthen the European Union’s borders at critical points, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in a letter seen by Reuters. In the letter, dated August 3rd, she also reiterated the EU’s support
SAO PAULO, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro are running neck and neck ahead of October’s presidential election, a Nexus/BTG Pactual poll showed on Monday, as the right-wing lawmaker narrowed the gap with the leftist incumbent. • In a simula
MOSCOW, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Russia said on Monday that four people, including a child, had been killed and 10 injured at the Black Sea holiday resort of Gelendzhik following a Ukrainian drone attack. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine, which like Russia says it does not deliberately target ci
TOKYO (AP) — Residents in Japan’s quake-hit southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto put out heaps of debris for collection as the region baked under intense heat. The heat and a lack of water supplies have added to the challenges in the severely damaged areas where Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi briefly
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The Pacific Island country of Nauru has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, its president said, matching the spelling and pronunciation in the national language. The country’s international code will change from NRU to NRO and its people will be known as dei-Na
