July 27 (Reuters) – Russian strikes on front-line localities in eastern Ukraine killed seven people and injured more than 20 on Monday, officials said. Prosecutors in Donetsk Region, the focal point of fighting along the 1,200-km (775-mile) front line, said three people had died in two areas near th
BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations’ human rights chief said Monday that Israel must end its occupation of large areas of southern Lebanon and halt the demolition of homes, days before Lebanese and Israeli officials are set to hold another round of direct talks. Volker Türk spoke to The Associated Pres
By Harold Isaac PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 27 (Reuters) – Haiti’s CEP electoral council on Monday scheduled the first presidential elections in a decade for December with a runoff in February, after plans to hold the vote in August with a December runoff were postponed over security concerns. Haiti has no
July 27 (Reuters) – A United Nations fact-finding body on Venezuela said on Monday it was “gravely concerned” over the country’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court and urged it to rejoin. Venezuela’s government said on Friday it had made an “irrevocable” decision to leave, justifying t
July 27 (Reuters) – Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan asked Russian President Vladimir Putin during a phone call on Monday to help resolve a dispute over Russian restrictions on Armenian exports, the Armenian government said. Pashinyan, who has steered Armenia in a more pro-Western direction d
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury on Monday purged another 84 companies and people from its 17,000-plus sanctions lists as part of a broader push to streamline sanctions programs and make it easier for banks to go after the most serious terrorist financing schemes. U
MOSCOW, July 27 (Reuters) – Romania’s foreign ministry said on Monday it had expelled a diplomat at Russia’s embassy after repeated violations of its national airspace by drones, saying it had notified the ambassador over its decision. Romanian F-16 fighter jet pilots shot down three drones in as ma
By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that the United States is having “good talks” with Iran “right now.” Trump, on Air Force One on his way to Michigan, said he has “plenty of time” to deal with Iran. “There’s a good chance that somethi
BAKU, July 27 (Reuters) – Two co-founders of an independent Azerbaijani online TV station, three of its journalists and four activists were each sentenced to jail terms of up to 15 years on Monday over financial crimes, in a case that has raised Western concerns over press freedom. Akif Gurbanov, wh
LONDON, July 27 (Reuters) – Britain is looking again at an immigration order that a former Hong Kong political opposition leader must leave after a week’s visit, his lawyer said, after the order appeared at odds with UK policy on its former colony. Wu Chi-Wai, a former leader of the now-defunct Demo
By Miranda Murray BERLIN, July 27 (Reuters) – Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday vowed to take action in response to the vehicle ramming attack on the Berlin Pride celebration as debate erupted in Germany over why the suspected driver was not in prison. The suspect, who was shot dead by police on S
July 27 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday Washington was in “very deep talks with Iran” and warned that he is ready for “strong military action” if diplomacy failed. “Not much time. Either it goes fast or not at all,” Trump told Axios when asked how long he was willing to give f
BERLIN (AP) — Haidar Darwish, a Syrian belly dancer and artist, took the stage at Berlin’s Museum Island wearing a flamboyant hoop skirt and red fez. He asked the audience for a moment of silence and then said the show must go on — despite a fatal attack on the city’s Pride celebrations that has plu
PARIS (AP) — A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said. Put another way, that means the inferno was no longer simply being propelled b
BERLIN (AP) — Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who generated both fascination and revulsion around the globe with his “Body Worlds” exhibits of preserved human corpses, has died. He was 81. Von Hagens’ family and the Institute for Plastination, which he founded, said he died on Friday. A sta
By Pesha Magid TAL, West Bank, July 27 (Reuters) – Palestinian villagers in the occupied West Bank said on Monday the area was coming close to breaking point after increasing incursions by Israeli settlers and violent stand-offs, such as one that left six people shot dead last week. The Israeli mili
LIMA, July 27 (Reuters) – Peru’s President-elect Keiko Fujimori on Monday named the Economy Minister, Foreign Minister, and Prime Minister for her administration, which is due to be sworn into government on Tuesday. Fujimori appointed Elmer Cuba as the South American nation’s new Economy Minister, w
July 27 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they targeted a number of sensitive crude oil supply and transport sites linking eastern Saudi Arabia to the critical Red Sea oil export hub of Yanbu. Saudi state oil giant Aramco did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Ho
TORONTO, July 27 (Reuters) – At least one shot was fired outside the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto early on Monday but there were no injuries, police said, in what was the second such incident in the last four months. Police officers, alerted by the sound of a gunshot, said they found evidence
PARIS (AP) — Heat waves and scant rainfall in Europe have contributed to historic wildfires in France and Spain that have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in one of the continent’s biggest evacuation efforts since World War II. Rising temperatures later this week could comp
BERLIN (AP) — Berliners mourned Monday after the deadly attack near the city’s Pride festival as questions mounted over how the suspect was able to move freely following a conviction linked to his ties to the Islamic State group. The 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, a German citizen, was killed following
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from monsoon rains and flash flooding in Pakistan over the past month surpassed 100 on Monday as weather forecasters warned that more heavy rain is expected across the country later this week. Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said 109 people ha
BEIJING (AP) — Did the foreign ministers of China and Japan talk at last week’s ASEAN regional meeting, or didn’t they? Japan’s Toshimitsu Motegi told reporters last week that he had briefly discussed bilateral relations with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi when they ran into each other during the meeti
MOSCOW, July 27 (Reuters) – Tatiana Navka, the wife of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, has launched a legal challenge aimed at overturning European Union sanctions imposed on her over the war in Ukraine, according to details published on an EU website. Navka, a former Oly
July 27 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s air defences intercepted and destroyed drones launched from Iraq that attempted to target oil facilities in the kingdom’s Eastern Province and Riyadh, the Saudi Defence Ministry said on Monday. The ministry said the drones were launched by Iran-backed armed groups
JERUSALEM, July 27 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed to Washington on Monday, where he said he would meet U.S. President Donald Trump for their first face-to-face talks since the start of their conflict with Iran. It will be Netanyahu’s eighth meeting with Trump since th
WARSAW, July 27 (Reuters) – Poland asked the United States on Monday to extradite fugitive former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, who faces 26 charges mainly related to the alleged misuse of money from a crime victims’ fund for political purposes, prosecutors said. Poland is seeking to prosecute Z
ABUJA, July 27 (Reuters) – At least 30 people were killed when armed men attacked a village in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna state early on Monday, two residents said. Dogon Rana, secretary to the village head, said gunmen stormed the community shooting randomly and burning houses. Eight children we
July 27 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads Senator Flavio Bolsonaro in a simulated second-round runoff for October’s presidential election, a Nexus poll commissioned by lender BTG Pactual showed on Monday. • Leftist Lula would defeat the son of former right-wing Presiden
MANILA, July 27 (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Monday he was “not the president of my family” and “not the president of my friends” as he vowed to press ahead with an anti-corruption drive that could see multiple charges filed against his cousin, former House Speaker M
