LIMA, Peru (AP) — Conservative leader Keiko Fujimori is set to be sworn in as Peru’s president Tuesday after winning the June presidential election by a margin of fewer than 50,000 votes. Fujimori, the daughter of a former president jailed for human rights abuses, will become Peru’s ninth president
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials in Pakistan administered Kashmir on Tuesday accused an outlawed political group of attempting to sabotage elections for the region’s constitutional assembly, while also alleging that militants from the Pakistani Taliban infiltrated weekslong protests. The accusations came
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Police in Guyana filed murder charges on Tuesday against the captain and two crew members of a state ferry that capsized, killing more than 70 people, with 30 passengers still missing. Accused are Captain Kevin Price, 40, chief mate Rondell Dwayne Roberts, 42, and cargo sup
By Patricia Zengerle, Richard Cowan and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate advanced sweeping Russian energy sanctions legislation on Tuesday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the Capitol, seeing the vote as a tribute to the bill’s author, the late Senato
By Jonathan Saul, Parisa Hafezi, Timour Azhari and Chen Aizhu LONDON/DUBAI, July 28 (Reuters) – China has held direct talks with Yemen’s Houthi movement to enable its tankers to sail through the southern Red Sea without being attacked after the Iran-aligned militia pledged to prevent access to Saudi
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya and Britain on Tuesday agreed to resume military training in the East African nation after a delay in signing a new defense cooperation agreement that were largely attributed to Kenyan legislators’ concerns about protecting nearby communities. Neither government commented
LONDON (AP) — Scientists have reacted with alarm to news that the British government will cut funding to the world-famous radio telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northwest England that has been helping explore the cosmos for almost 70 years. Government fundin
BEIJING (AP) — Teams recovering bodies from a landslide this month in southwestern China have identified 30 more victims over the past week to bring the overall toll in Chongqing to 41 dead with 20 people still missing, authorities said Tuesday. Ten people also were injured on July 17 when massive a
By Ahmed Kingimi and Hamza Ibrahim MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, July 28 (Reuters) – At least 14 villagers were killed and several others injured in an attack in Nigeria’s Benue state on Tuesday, a local official said, extending a cycle of violence in the country’s central belt linked to land and resource dis
By Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS, July 28 (Reuters) – A Canadian woman of Chinese origin accused of spying while working as an intern at NATO’s military headquarters in Belgium will remain in pretrial custody for another month, a spokesperson for the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office said on T
By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, July 28 (Reuters) – Wildfires burning outside Bordeaux are underscoring the climate challenges facing France’s largest wine region, where producers are grappling with severe drought, rising temperatures and falling wine consumption. While growers say the fires pose no
GENEVA, July 28 (Reuters) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih said on Tuesday he was hopeful that the organisation’s partnership with Washington would continue after reports of a possible split with the Trump administration. “The United States has been a very important,
A court in Azerbaijan has convicted nine journalists and founders of a top independent news outlet on charges of financial crimes and sentenced them to prison in what international media rights groups denounced Tuesday as a politically driven case to stifle critical voices in the oil-rich Caspian Se
LONDON (AP) — Booker Prize winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are in the running again for the prestigious fiction award, alongside Dublin gangs, dystopian science fiction and the New England characters of Pulitzer Prize laureate Elizabeth Strout. Judges read 163 novels to come up with the 13 s
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office has asked Ukraine’s top prosecutor to consider launching criminal proceedings against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, according to a letter made public on Tuesday. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian Pres
By Emma Farge GENEVA, July 28 (Reuters) – The U.N. migration agency on Tuesday warned of a dramatic increase in the number of people forced into working in Asian scam compounds, saying people from more than 80 countries have been lured in through social media, with some being sexually abused. Huge s
By Satoshi Sugiyama, Chang-Ran Kim and Kentaro Okasaka TOKYO, July 28 (Reuters) – The Aeon mall destroyed in a post-quake explosion in southern Japan on Tuesday had just reopened last month as a new and improved shopping and entertainment complex to commemorate its recovery from a deadly tremor a de
MOSCOW, July 28 (Reuters) – Russian forces on Tuesday struck at least two Ukrainian vessels, including a bulk carrier delivering military cargo in the Black Sea and a vessel in the port of Mykolaiv, the Russian Defence Ministry said. It said it had also targeted the port of Mykolaiv itself. “As a re
BERLIN (AP) — Investigators have found what appears to be a claim of responsibility by the suspect in the fatal attack near Berlin’s Pride festival, German authorities said Tuesday. The 21-year-old suspect, Abdul Ballout, was killed in a confrontation with police on Sunday, the day after investigato
BERLIN, July 28 (Reuters) – Germany has deported an Afghan national without a criminal record for the first time since the Taliban returned to power, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Tuesday. • According to Dobrindt, the man had become liable for deportation after exhausting his asylum c
PARIS, July 28 (Reuters) – Police have discovered bones and a decomposing body believed to be the remains of five infants at the home of a couple in the southern French city of Orange, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The discovery was made after the 32-year-old woman, who is also the mother of two chil
By Gram Slattery and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the White House on Tuesday ahead of the funeral of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, who forcefully lobbied Washington to back Kyiv in its conflict with Ru
By Iñigo Alexander and Paola Chiomante TULUM, Mexico, July 28 (Reuters) – A record wave of brown, smelly seaweed is washing up on beaches along Mexico’s Caribbean coast, forcing closures in top tourist destinations and inflicting mounting economic damage on hotels, restaurants and shops. The unprece
DUBAI, July 28 (Reuters) – Iran has executed two men for their role in nationwide protests in January, state media reported on Tuesday, among a series of death sentences that rights groups say have been handed out since the start of the war with the United States. Abolfazl Sepahi-Badjani and Amirhos
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Iraq’s new prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, arrived in Turkey on Tuesday for talks that were expected to include the construction of a pipeline to Turkey aimed at reducing the exposure of Iraq’s oil exports to tensions in the Gulf region. Al-Zaidi’s meetings with President Recep T
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish firefighter Javier García has never faced anything like the record blaze raging near Madrid in his two decades protecting woodlands and rural communities. “This doesn’t have a precedent,” García told The Associated Press by phone before another long day ahead. The out
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunmen killed a high-ranking local Taliban official in Afghanistan’s northwestern province of Badakhshan on Tuesday in a rare targeted killing in the country. Two gunmen shot Zabihullah Amiri, Badakhshan’s director of information and culture, as he headed from a local distr
By Giuseppe Fonte and Angelo Amante ROME, July 28 (Reuters) – Italy’s League party, a member of the ruling coalition, said on Tuesday that any decision on whether to tap a European Union scheme to fund military spending would be up to parliament, after the foreign minister said Rome was ready to acc
BEIJING, July 28 (Reuters) – China’s No.2 leader, Premier Li Qiang, visited the city of Tangshan on Tuesday for the 50th anniversary of a 1976 earthquake that killed a quarter of a million people – a trip usually made by Chinese presidents. Li paid his respects on President Xi Jinping’s behalf, stat
LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) – Moldovan businessman Veaceslav Platon is fighting extradition from Britain on charges relating to an alleged $22 billion money laundering ring, giving evidence in a London court on Tuesday that his prosecution is politically motivated. Platon, 53, was arrested in London l
