By Miranda Murray BERLIN, July 26 (Reuters) – Members of Berlin’s LGBTQ community and others voiced grief, anger and solidarity on Sunday after a vehicle rammed into crowds at the city’s annual Christopher Street Day Pride celebrations, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen. Organisers o
BUCHAREST, July 26 (Reuters) – A Romanian F-16 fighter jet pilot shot down a Russian drone over the Black Sea, the defence ministry said on Sunday, the latest in a series of breaches of the NATO member’s airspace that President Nicusor Dan called “inadmissible and intolerable”. Romania shares a 650-
PARIS, July 26 (Reuters) – The Normandy D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, to fight Adolf Hitler’s Nazi troops and go on to liberate France have become a UNESCO protected world heritage site, the United Nations body said on Sunday. • In a statement on its website, UNESCO said
HONG KONG, July 26 – China said on Sunday it organised a routine patrol by its naval and air forces in the South China Sea, accusing the Philippines of holding patrols with foreign countries in the disputed waterway that undermined regional peace and stability. • The comments came from the Southern
By Ali Sawafta and Mohammed Torokman QUSRA, West Bank, July 26 (Reuters) – Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank early on Sunday, setting fire to two mosques and scrawling graffiti on buildings, Palestinian officials said. On Friday, four Palestinians and two Israe
By Manuel Ausloos BORDEAUX, France, July 26 (Reuters) – Firefighters battled to control wildfires threatening the French city of Bordeaux on Sunday, while authorities evacuated increasing numbers of people from its suburbs. The southwestern French region has been hit by wildfires during an intense s
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) — A raging wildfire in southwest France forced the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight Sunday, bringing the total forced out of their homes to a staggering 220,000 in one region alone, as flames crept ever closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux. Neighboring Spain o
July 26 (Reuters) – New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham “will always put Britain’s interests first”, he told the BBC when asked in an interview, parts of which were released on Sunday, whether he was willing to call out U.S. President Donald Trump. Burnham’s predecessor Keir Starmer, who announced he
July 26 (Reuters) – The main land border crossing between Kuwait and Iraq has reopened, Iraq’s state news agency cited the country’s border crossings authority as saying on Sunday. The Abdali border crossing was temporarily closed after a drone attack on Thursday that caused material damage but no c
MANILA, July 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. and Japan joined the Philippines in maritime exercises in the South China Sea, as the Filipino and Chinese governments traded accusations following an encounter between vessels from their countries in the disputed waters. The five-day drills from July 21 to 25 b
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African couple found themselves in a rare situation when they witnessed a humpback whale “supergroup” consisting of nearly 300 of the giant marine mammals gathering together. It’s an indication, scientists say, of how some whale species numbers have strongly re
HONG KONG, July 26 (Reuters) – Rescuers were searching on Sunday for 23 people missing after a Vietnamese ship sank in the busy waterway of the South China Sea, while 39 were pulled from the waters, China’s state broadcaster CCTV said. Authorities in the southern province of Hainan said the cargo ve
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it denied visas to two U.S. State Department officials that sought to travel to the South American nation next week, in the latest political barb between the two countries. The move became public after The Washington Post reported the Brazi
Qatar Welcomes Dutch, Belgian Bans on Israeli Settlement Products By The Media Line Staff Qatar called on more countries to prohibit trade with Israeli settlements after the Netherlands and Belgium approved measures banning settlement products, describing the decisions as an important step toward in
BERLIN, July 26 (Reuters) – Germany has seen a series of vehicle-ramming incidents since the 2016 attack on Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz Christmas market, prompting repeated security alerts around public gatherings, Christmas markets, carnival events and demonstrations. BERLIN, JULY 2026 — CHRISTOPHER
SYDNEY, July 26 (Reuters) – Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday he would seek to raise the issue of tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump, after Washington this week imposed new tariffs on its trading partners including Australia. The United States on Friday imposed new tar
VIENNA, July 26 (Reuters) – A suspected perpetrator of the apparent car attack on Pride celebrations in Berlin on Saturday night has been identified as a member of the city’s “Islamist scene” but he has not yet been arrested, a spokesman for Berlin police said on Sunday. “We have now identified a su
HONG KONG, July 26 (Reuters) – Typhoon Noul made landfall early on Sunday in southern China, bringing heavy rain and gale-force winds across Guangdong province and neighbouring Hong Kong, with authorities warning that heavy to torrential rain would continue until Tuesday. Noul, which means the glow
By Raphael Satter and Lefteris Papadimas WASHINGTON/ATHENS, July 26 (Reuters) – Signs of the Iran war’s spread emerged this weekend despite a pause in U.S. strikes, as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Saudi oil installations along the Red Sea coast and Iran accused Ukraine of targeting an Irani
July 26 (Reuters) – The Ukrainian capital Kyiv came under attack from Russian forces early on Sunday, with falling debris triggering fires in at least three districts, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Ukraine’s air force said Russian forces had targeted the capital with ballistic missiles. But an air al
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal ‘s president formally launched his own political party Saturday, cementing his rupture with former ally Ousmane Sonko, the head of the ruling Pastef party, and setting up a power struggle during a major debt crisis. The creation of Bassirou Diomaye Faye ‘s Republican Pa
BERLIN, July 25 (Reuters) – A car drove into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride celebrations on Saturday evening, injuring several people, Berlin police said. Police said on the social media platform X they were responding with emergency services to an incident in the city’s central Tiergarten park close t
July 25 (Reuters) – A spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Britain would become a “definite and legitimate target” if it supported the U.S. in any war with Tehran, according to Iranian state broadcaster IRIB. The spokesperson said any country, including Britain and Gulf
By Luciana Magalhaes SAO PAULO, July 25 (Reuters) – Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, eldest son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, on Saturday formally launched his bid to challenge President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in October’s election, showcasing support from Argentine President Javier Mile
July 25 (Reuters) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned on Saturday a Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, saying it resulted in an explosion that killed one sailor and injured another. Throughout the war in Ukraine, Kyiv has had to counter Iranian-designed drones deplo
BRUSSELS (AP) — A Canadian woman was arrested and accused of espionage while working as an intern in the operational headquarters of the NATO military alliance, Belgian authorities said Saturday. Belgium’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office said it launched an espionage investigation after NATO’s security
OMSK, Russia July 25 (Reuters) – Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Saturday that a Ukraine peace deal might be reached if the two sides froze the conflict and resumed negotiations. Speaking alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Russia-Kazakhstan forum in the Siberian cit
CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Saturday that they fired missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia in response to Saudi airstrikes on the strategic Red Sea city of Hodeida, in an escalation over vital shipping routes in the Middle East while the United States and Iran vie for control o
By Krishna N. Das and Tora Agarwala NEW DELHI, July 25 (Reuters) – Nearly five weeks after the leaders of India’s youth Cockroach Janta Party began their protest demanding the resignation of the education minister over exam paper leaks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 75, posted a rare selfie video: h
July 25 (Reuters) – Russian authorities said 11 people including four children had been killed by Ukraine in an overnight attack on a holiday camp in a Russian-held part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, accusing Kyiv on Saturday of deliberately attacking civilians. Ukraine did not immediately respo
