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 blazes fanned by strong winds gutted homes, thousands of hectares of farmland and pine forests, and forced e
DAKAR, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Mali’s former Prime Minister Moussa Mara has been released from prison, he said at the weekend in a video posted on Facebook. • Mara was sentenced to two years in October 2025, including one year in prison and a second on probation, over a social-media post criticising the m
By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Iran is betting it can outlast Washington by turning the Middle East’s trade routes, shipping lanes and energy infrastructure into pressure points that steadily raise the cost of confrontation, according to Gulf officials and analysts. Rather than seeking a
BEIJING, Aug 3 (Reuters) – China warned of risks from heavy downpours across multiple parts of the country on Monday, with storms concentrated in the northwestern Shaanxi and southwestern Sichuan provinces where residents have been evacuated from high-risk areas. • The national forecaster retained i
NEW DELHI, Aug 3 (Reuters) – An Indian court on Monday acquitted the former chief of India’s wrestling federation in a sexual harassment case lodged by female wrestlers, local media reported, three years after the allegations triggered months-long protests demanding criminal action against him. The
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the International Committee of the Red Cross’ representative in the capital on Monday, the military-backed government said, a rare moment of contact with the outside world for the Nobel laureate who has been held out of public
By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE, Aug 3 (Reuters) – The British band Massive Attack said its members were detained by Singapore police and “isolated and separately questioned” after the two performers raised a Palestinian flag at their concert in the city-state last Wednesday. In a statement posted on Insta
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Five water-dropping planes and another five helicopters took off at first light Monday to help hundreds of firefighters battling a major wildfire west of Athens, Greece, a day after a midair collision between two firefighting helicopters killed two crew members. The collision l
MIKITAMÄE, Estonia (AP) — As an accordion plays, 80-year-old Maime Kapten spins across the grass field, her embroidered skirt swirling and silver chains and coins around her neck jangling. Kapten is a member of the Seto ethnic community, which once a year turns a village in southeastern Estonia into
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers were searching for possible missing passengers Monday after rescuing 229 people from a ferry that caught fire the previous day in waters off the main island of Java, leaving at least five people dead. The Mutiara Sentosa 2 ferry was traveling from Indon
By Saurabh Sharma, Aftab Ahmed and Aditya Kalra SITAMARHI, India/NEW DELHI, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Ashok Kumar knows that Narendra Modi changed his life for the better. Ashok remembers, as a child, watching his farmer parents struggle to make ends meet – and how things changed after Modi became prime min
By Kyu-seok Shim, Daewoung Kim and Dahyun Lee SEOUL, Aug 3 (Reuters) – A record heatwave is gripping the Korean Peninsula, sending temperatures soaring across South Korea and North Korea as authorities expand emergency measures and residents seek relief in cooling shelters, beaches and water parks.
SURABAYA, Indonesia, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Indonesian rescuers are continuing the search for 28 people still missing on Monday after a ferry caught fire off Indonesia’s Madura island, an official said. The KM Mutiara Sentosa ferry, carrying 271 passengers, was travelling from Indonesia’s second-largest
Aug 3 (Reuters) – Iran executed two Iranian nationals on Monday after accusing them of sending sensitive military and security location coordinates to Israel during the Iran-war, the Fars news agency reported. (Reporting by Tala Ramadan; Editing by Tom Hogue) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com
SYDNEY (AP) — The trial of a retired Sydney radio broadcaster and former Australian national rugby coach accused of sexual offenses against six men and boys over two decades began on Monday. The 85-year-old has pleaded not guilty to 20 counts of indecent assault and two of sexual touching without co
KOCHI, India, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Heavy rains and floods battered parts of southern India over the weekend, killing at least 11 and displacing thousands in the state of Kerala, and setting off a landslide that killed at least three in neighbouring Karnataka, authorities and news reports said. • The de
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff Aug 2 (Reuters) – Two key Republican senators said on Monday they would support Todd Blanche’s nomination for U.S. attorney general, paving the way for his confirmation after reaching a deal that would rescind a controversial “anti-weaponization” package that was widely critic
BANGKOK, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday, a spokeswoman for the Myanmar government said, amid concerns over the health of the 81-year-old. The Nobel Prize winner has been in detent
By Huey Mun Leong SARAWAK, Malaysia, August 3 (Reuters) – Villagers in one indigenous community in Malaysia’s Sarawak state once lived by an unspoken rule: leave the crocodile be, and it will leave you alone in turn. But for the community’s headman, Daniel Muking, that taboo has now been broken, aft
NEW YORK, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Kay Granger, a Texas Republican who was the first woman from her party to chair the U.S. House of Representatives’ powerful Appropriations Committee, has died, her son J.D. Granger confirmed to Reuters on Sunday. She was 83. No cause of death was given. Kay Granger in 202
By Tatiana Bautzer NEW YORK, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Around 60,000 people have been ordered to evacuate as wildfires threaten the city of Spokane in Washington state, local officials said Sunday, adding the fires in the region had destroyed 600 buildings, including homes and businesses. The Spokane Area F
SYDNEY, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Two people were hospitalised after a building collapsed in a central area of Sydney on Monday, emergency services said. A spokesperson for New South Wales Ambulance said it was called to an address in Ultimo, a suburb around 2 km (1.2 miles) from the city’s central business
CANBERRA, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Australia warned on Monday against the risk of a wider spread of H5N1 bird flu after its first mass mortality episode among seabirds killed about 50 greater crested terns off the coast south of Adelaide. However, there is no evidence yet of the virus on Australia’s farms,
By Yimou Lee TAIPEI, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s cooperation with the United States may be closer than many imagine, the island’s Defence Minister Wellington Koo said on Friday, as it strives to deepen military exchanges with the U.S. Pacific Command to boost defence capabilities. The command helps m
Israel Denies It Agreed To Stop Targeting Hamas Leaders By The Media Line Staff Israeli officials on Sunday pushed back against reports that Jerusalem had agreed to stop targeting Hamas leaders as part of a proposed Gaza disarmament arrangement, saying no such commitment has been approved and that o
(AP) – In a pivotal turn in America’s confrontation with Iran, President Donald Trump says he has decided to hold off on ordering new U.S. strikes—despite earlier plans for a major military action. The President made clear that the decision was not driven by hesitation, but by a strategic calculatio
By Steve Holland, Menna AlaaElDin and Yasmine Ghania ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/CAIRO, Aug 3 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said talks with Iran will happen on Monday but declined to set a deadline for an agreement after earlier saying he had called off an imminent attack in hopes of quickly reac
Aug 2 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian drone strike killed one child and injured two others on Sunday in a playground in the Russian border region of Belgorod, the acting regional governor said, with a top Russian rights official denouncing the incident as an “inhumane terrorist act”. Belgorod Governor Alexa
CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Dikra, a 20-year-old migrant from Morocco, had spent five days in Ceuta by Sunday after swimming to the Spanish territory with her younger sister and cousin. Since then, all her meals have come from local residents, and she isn’t sure when her next one will come. Yet Dikra is cer
Uganda Unveils Monument to Yoni Netanyahu at Entebbe By The Media Line Staff Uganda unveiled a monument honoring Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu at the old Entebbe airport terminal, commemorating the commander of the Israeli force killed during the 1976 hostage rescue mission while highlighting what Uganda
