July 31 (Reuters) – A drone attack set ablaze an energy facility and warehouses in Russia’s Volgograd region on Friday, injuring five, the regional governor, Andrei Bocharov, said, but stopped short of giving details of the facilities. The region is home to a Lukoil-owned oil refinery. Five people a
By Tim Kelly, Maki Shiraki, Daniel Leussink and Sam Nussey KUMAMOTO, Japan, July 31 (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake that struck southern Japan this week has exposed the vulnerability of the country’s manufacturing supply chains, a decade after a devastating quake in the same region triggered wides
SEOUL, July 31 (Reuters) – An editorial carried by North Korean state media KCNA on Friday criticised the expansion of the U.S. Forces Japan command, warning that a clash on the Korean Peninsula is now a matter of timing rather than just a possibility. The editorial said the increase in U.S. Forces
HAVANA, July 30 (Reuters) – Cuba announced new details of its plans to open up key sectors of its state-run economy to private industry amid Washington’s campaign of maximum pressure aiming to force an economic transformation on the communist-run island. Economic changes including easing restriction
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) – Ukraine hopes a new push for ceasefire talks with Russia could halt the five-year war before a potentially brutal winter, but needs new anti-ballistic missiles now to defend against strikes by Moscow, the country’s envoy to Washington said on Thursday
SYDNEY, July 31 (Reuters) – The Pacific island nation of Nauru has officially changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, reverting to its traditional designation in a move it said was aimed at strengthening national identity and cultural heritage. Nauru’s parliament passed a constitutional amendmen
By Ricardo Brito SAO PAULO, July 30 (Reuters) – A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has authorized federal police to investigate the son of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over suspicions he improperly helped a lobbyist in dealings with the health ministry, two sources with direct knowledge of the
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Voter registration began Thursday in Haiti’s capital and beyond, marking a critical milestone in the push for general elections even as concerns over widespread gang violence persist. The government opened 10 registration centers across Port-au-Prince in neighborhoods co
BRUSSELS, July 30 (Reuters) – The European Union has agreed plans to establish a Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, EU Ambassador to Libya Nicola Orlando said on Thursday, as the bloc looks to curb arrivals on one of Europe’s busiest migration routes.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — After a bruising World Cup defeat gave way to what many Argentines saw as a sweeping wave of hatred against their country, Argentine President Javier Milei on Thursday signed an emergency decree empowering the government to deny entry to or expel foreigners who incite
BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from a landslide in southwestern China this month has risen to 51 after search crews ended a search on land, local authorities said Thursday. Ten people remain missing. Dredging and search operations in the Wujiang River are continuing, according to a statement from Pen
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — An explosion inside a coal mine in southwest Pakistan killed at least 18 miners Thursday and trapped 24 others underground in what officials believed to be life-threatening conditions as rescuers raced to reach them. The blast apparently was triggered by a buildup of methane
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) – A secretive U.S. court created 30 years ago to deport suspected terrorists convened for the first time on Thursday, opening a new front in the Trump administration’s effort to remove non-citizens accused of national security threats and expand t
MADRID (AP) — Thousands of migrants have streamed into the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta in North Africa from Morocco, prompting local officials to call for help from Spain’s national government in Madrid to restore the border. Videos and images from the frontier showed crowds of people, mainly Mo
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is interested in participating in a new security initiative for Lebanon when the 7,500-member U.N. peacekeeping mission in the south of the country expires at the end of the year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a joint press statement with his Lebanes
LONDON (AP) — Dozens of people were arrested outside a London courthouse on Thursday after expressing support for Palestine Action, a protest group that has been banned as a terrorist organization by the British government. The arrests came as Palestine Action was given the go-ahead to ask the U.K.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Houthi rebels in Yemen said they attacked Saudi oil facilities. The Saudis blamed militias in Iraq and joined the United States in bombing them. Iran fired missiles at Jordan. Drones set ships ablaze in Egypt. But it’s not actually as complicated as it sounds, and it’s all rela
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) – When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the New World some five centuries ago, they brought muskets, cannons, armor, horses and attack dogs as they set about colonizing the Americas. But the biggest blow they delivered came from something else entirely —
QUETTA, July 30 (Reuters) – At least 11 coal miners were killed and dozens are missing after an explosion buried parts of a mining complex in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Thursday, an official said. Shoaib Nosherwani, Balochistan’s minister for mines and mineral development, told Reuters that
MADRID, July 30 (Reuters) – Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta is experiencing a humanitarian and security emergency after 1,500 migrants reached the city by swimming across from Morocco over the past week, the territory’s leader said on Thursday. Ceuta, together with Melilla – another Spanish a
BEIJING/HONG KONG, July 30 (Reuters) – China’s state media has hinted at the wider deployment of one of its most closely watched weapons, the YJ-20 hypersonic anti-ship missile. CCTV’s military channel and the state-backed Global Times tabloid on Wednesday highlighted footage of a Type 052D destroye
By Brad Heath, Kristina Cooke, M.B. Pell and Benjamin Lesser July 30 – Christian Garcia admits that he threw a water bottle toward officers guarding a federal building near Los Angeles during an immigration protest last summer. The plastic bottle was empty, he said, and hit no one but Garcia himself
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — As wildfires rage in France and Spain and a renewed heat wave is bearing down on Western Europe, a prolonged drought half a continent away is setting record low water levels on one of Europe’s largest rivers, disrupting tourism and industry and confronting residents with the
ANKARA, July 30 (Reuters) – Turkish police detained the opposition mayor of Ankara’s Etimesgut district on Thursday, among others in a graft investigation, broadcaster NTV and other media said. • Mayor Erdal Besikcioglu was detained after police raided the Etimesgut municipality in the early hours,
ROME (AP) — The Mediterranean of our ancestors is no more. Scientists say climate change, caused mainly by burning oil, coal and gas, is making the Mediterranean Sea hotter, bringing hundreds of new and invasive fish species that decimate indigenous populations. As biodiversity diminishes, coastal c
By Ashley Tang and Danial Azhar KUALA LUMPUR, July 30 (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Myanmar has agreed to take 5,000 Rohingya asylum seekers currently in Malaysia, where there has recently been tension between the refugees and local communities. Speaking at a campaign rally
BORDEAUX, France, July 30 (Reuters) – Two people have been arrested on suspicion of arson as firefighters battled on Thursday to prevent the spread of wildfires near Bordeaux , the local administration responsible for the area said. The fires had not spread compared to the previous days, the local a
WASHINGTON (AP) In the Middle East, tensions involving the United States, Iran, and regional partners are escalating once again—after a brief stretch of relative calm. In Baghdad, the U.S. military says it has completed what it calls a heavy wave of strikes against Iran. The campaign, launched early
By Tim Kelly, Tom Bateman and Satoshi Sugiyama YATSUSHIRO, Japan, July 30 (Reuters) – The 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Japan toppled houses and split open streets in the small city of Yatsushiro, but town official Akio Matsushita is most worried about the invisible threats from the
HONG KONG (AP) — When former Macao pro-democracy lawmaker Au Kam San was arrested in July 2025, his family and observers of the politics in the Chinese special administrative region were shocked. A year on, little is known about his case even by his daughter. Au is the first publicly known arrest un
