BEIJING, July 30 (Reuters) – China will “resolutely retaliate” and safeguard its interests if the United States insists on acting unilaterally over an import ban on new Chinese robots and power inverters, the commerce ministry said on Thursday. The ministry urged the United States to immediately wit
WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) – The United States is conducting air strikes in Iran, the U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday. The strikes started at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT), it said. “The strikes are a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. forces based in the Middle Eas
Defense Minister Cautions Pakistan Over Israel-India Military Ties By Arshad Mehmood / The Media Line Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif stated that Israel and India have maintained a long-standing military partnership against Pakistan, describing both countries as Islamabad’s enduring adversa
July 29 (Reuters) – Former Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, in an interview published on Wednesday, said his efforts to overhaul the military’s procurement system were the main reason behind his dismissal this month in a military and political shake-up. Fedorov, a technical expert seen b
By Steve Gorman July 29 (Reuters) – The man who stabbed and partially blinded author Salman Rushdie at a speaking engagement in 2022 was found guilty on Wednesday of federal terrorism charges for the attack, which prosecutors said was incited by death threats over Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to $58.6 billion to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, as conflicts in Iran and Ukraine strain U.S. weapons stockpiles. The U.S. has supplied large quantities of
July 30 (Reuters) – Russia was striking the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with ballistic missiles in the early hours of Thursday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a Telegram post, asking people to seek shelter. Multiple explosions were heard in the city, according to a Reuters witness. Ukraine’s President
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Fifteen elephants that died over the past month in southern Kenya are suspected to have been poisoned by tomatoes contaminated by cyanide, wildlife authorities told local media Wednesday. Authorities did not say who they suspected in the contamination of tomatoes from farms nei
ROME (AP) — Italy’s highest court has ruled that children born with Italian citizenship do not automatically lose it when a parent later becomes a citizen of another country, a decision expected to bolster citizenship-by-descent claims by descendants of Italian emigrants worldwide. The ruling resolv
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A U.S. extradition process against Guyana’s main opposition leader and his father wanted on gold smuggling and money laundering charges can resume after they had legally challenged the request, a Caribbean regional court ruled on Wednesday. The Caribbean Court of Justice ru
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran launched a barrage of missiles at American forces in the Middle East on Wednesday as the U.S. partnered with Saudi Arabia to strike Tehran-backed militias in neighboring Iraq, killing at least 20 fighters and six Iranian advisers. Elsewhere, drone strikes ignited fires on two nat
Syrian Authorities Arrest 7 in Alleged ISIS Cell Targeting Aleppo Rizik Alabi / The Media Line [DAMASCUS] Syria’s Interior Ministry announced the arrest of seven people it said were affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) during a joint security operation targeting two cells in Aleppo city and the
WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explored all paths to curb Iran’s nuclear project in their meeting, including diplomacy, economic pressure and force, a senior Israeli official said on Wednesday. Netanyahu did not tell Trump th
By Mubasher Bukhari and Tariq Maqbool LAHORE/MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, July 29 (Reuters) – Protests during regional elections in Pakistan-administered Kashmir have turned deadly, with leaders of a banned Kashmiri group saying on Wednesday more than 30 people had been killed around one town in clashes
DAKAR, July 29 (Reuters) – Congo said on Tuesday a Rwandan armed group operating in eastern Congo had signed a protocol committing to disarmament, but Rwanda rejected the move as inconsistent with a U.S.-brokered peace agreement between the two countries. • Congo’s government said the Democratic For
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s iconic Noma restaurant is set to reopen on Aug. 5 with neither its founder and celebrity chef René Redzepi at the helm nor its three stars in the Michelin Guide. Redzepi announced he would “step away” from leading the Copenhagen institution in March following all
Firefighters in southwest France are fighting against a mega-fire four times the size of Paris. Meanwhile, temperatures are expected to climb above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday. The heat wave and forecast winds could hamper progress against the blaze that has forced 220,0
DAKAR, July 29 (Reuters) – Amnesty International called on Wednesday for a war crimes investigation into what it described as summary killings of at least 19 Malian soldiers by members of armed groups after an ambush on July 18. • The attack occurred in northern Mali between the town of Anefis and t
BEIRUT (AP) — Strikes launched by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia against Iran-allied fighters in Iraq have put Iraq’s government in a delicate position — and not for the first time. Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Iraq has walked a tightrope between Washington and Tehran, seeking to avoid becoming a ba
BEIRUT (AP) — More than a dozen Lebanese lawyers filed a complaint at the prosecutor’s office in Beirut on Wednesday against a prominent local banker, saying he violated the country’s laws by meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington this week. Lebanon and Israel have been
LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) – A drone has hit a U.S.-owned gas storage tanker at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta, maritime security firm Ambrey said on Wednesday, citing an initial assessment of the incident. Port services firm Inchcape said in a separate message two gas tankers had caught fire
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The only zoo in the Dominican Republic is providing a safe haven for confiscated illegal and smuggled animals as a government crackdown aimed at protecting exotic species gathers pace. Tucked inside a green oasis in the middle of the capital, Santo Domingo, a
By Gabriel Stargardter, Humeyra Pamuk, Gram Slattery and Andrea Shalal PARIS/WASHINGTON July 29 (Reuters) – The United States is considering delaying, or even blocking, President Emmanuel Macron’s choice for France’s next ambassador to Washington following public French criticism of the country’s hu
By Ana Isabel Martinez July 29 (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega aims to exclude “traitors” and “coup-plotting” opposition members from elections, while also seeking to extend the presidential term from six to seven “renewable” years, according to a draft constitutional reform sent to C
By Tala Ramadan BEIRUT, July 29 (Reuters) – A group of Lebanese lawyers filed a complaint with the country’s top prosecutor on Wednesday requesting an investigation into banker Antoun Sehnaoui over a dinner he allegedly co-hosted in Washington that was attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Net
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials said Wednesday the country’s forces hit one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries overnight in its latest deep strike as Kyiv extended economic, military and diplomatic pressure on Moscow. Ukraine’s almost daily long-range drone and missile strikes using domesti
By Benjamin Raab TEL AVIV, July 29 (Reuters) – A new Jewish-Arab political party is courting young voters ahead of Israel’s October election. But critics say it risks weakening the bid by the already underrepresented Arab minority to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightist governme
By Phil Stewart July 29 (Reuters) – The top U.S. commander for the Middle East has warned troops that cellphone videos shared online can help Iran target American bases, and sources told Reuters some deployed personnel could soon be ordered to surrender their phones. Any crackdown on mobile communic
SAO PAULO, July 29 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads a potential second-round vote in the October presidential election against opposition Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll showed on Wednesday. Lula would receive 49.2% of votes in a runoff, compared
By Janis Laizans and Guillermo Martinez LANTON, France/EL TIEMBLO, Spain, July 29 (Reuters) – Temperatures were set to soar again in France and Spain on Wednesday in a fourth heatwave of the summer, increasing the threat from wildfires that have forced large-scale evacuations of people, scorched thr
