July 24 (Reuters) – The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said it carried out strikes on Houthi military sites in Yemen’s Hodeidah governorate on Friday, saying the sites were used to threaten commercial shipping. The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV said Saudi strikes hit facilities belonging to the stat
By Yuliia Dysa KYIV, July 24 (Reuters) – Protesters in Kyiv on Friday announced an open-ended rally demanding that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reappoint ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov after a badly explained government reshuffle escalated into a political crisis. The protest peaked last
By David Brunnstrom July 24 (Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly on Friday voted overwhelmingly to extend the term of U.N. Human Rights chief Volker Turk for four more years, despite opposition from Russia and Israel and a U.S. threat to reassess its funding and engagement. Turk, an outspoken criti
By Steve Holland and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday said he would not go forward with a civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia unless the Saudis agreed to a normalization in relations with Israel under the Abraham Accords. The U.S. Department of Energy
July 24 (Reuters) – A Russian ballistic missile strike on Friday in Ukraine’s Kyiv region killed 10 people and injured close to 100 at the site of a defence industry event that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said should never have taken place. Ukraine’s Emergency Services said its crews had completed
July 24 (Reuters) – A Saudi vessel, NCC MASA, sustained minor hull damage after it was attacked while sailing in the Red Sea on Friday, Saudi state news agency SPA reported, citing an official source at the General Transport Authority. The vessel continued to its destination after checks confirmed i
WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States and Iran were in talks to negotiate an end to their conflict, but repeated that Tehran was not yet ready for a deal. “We are talking to them. I think they’re being serious. I think … they are being by far th
July 24 (Reuters) – A Mozambique-flagged LPG tanker carrying 28 Indian crew members was attacked in Iranian territorial waters on Friday, the Indian embassy in Tehran said. All Indian crew members are safe and the embassy is in contact with the authorities, it said in a statement posted on X. The ve
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices, President Donald Trump said on Friday, claiming the bloc has unfairly levied billions of dollars of fines against Google, Apple and other U.S. tech giants. The Republican president made th
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) – Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman and onetime prominent ally of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, pleaded not guilty on Friday to U.S. money laundering charges. • Saab’s lawyers entered the not guilty plea on his behalf at a hearing in Miami fede
July 24 (Reuters) – Venezuela has formally notified the United Nations of its “irrevocable” decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia said on Friday. The government justified the move by alleging a “geographical bias” within the court, claiming it d
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE, July 24 (Reuters) – Karim Khan became one of the best-known international prosecutors in May 2024 when he announced he was seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, inserting the International Criminal Court into a confrontation with
LONDON (AP) — A police boat crashed into Westminster Bridge in central London on Friday, tossing officers into the River Thames and injuring five of the crew, the Metropolitan Police said. Paramedics treated the injured on a black inflatable boat as a police helicopter hovered overhead near the cloc
BEIJING, July 24 (Reuters) – China’s top police chief and the head of the U.S. FBI agreed on Friday to deepen cooperation on law enforcement between the two countries, Beijing said after the officials met in the Chinese capital. Their meeting followed two recent repatriations of fugitives between Ch
THE HAGUE, July 24 (Reuters) – Member states of the International Criminal Court on Friday voted to dismiss Karim Khan as prosecutor following allegations of sexual misconduct, two diplomatic sources told Reuters. According to the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive ma
ANKARA, July 24 (Reuters) – Turkish opposition leader Ozgur Ozel and 90 other breakaway lawmakers launched a new political party on Friday, seeking to regroup to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan after their former party faced an unprecedented legal crackdown. They applied to the interior ministry
By Timour Azhari and Mohammed Ghobari RIYADH/ADEN, July 24 (Reuters) – Yemen is edging towards the resumption of a more than decade-old frozen conflict, Yemeni officials, Western diplomats and analysts say, as attacks on Saudi infrastructure and shipping by Iran-aligned Houthis test the patience of
By Updates with backgroun in paragraphs 4-7 WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he does not believe China or Russia are “participating” in the ongoing Iran conflict, but warned that if they did get involved “it would be very bad for them.” “President Xi, a
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Oliver Griffin BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, July 24 (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed a law late on Thursday to ban the sale and production of the French delicacy foie gras in the South American country, citing animal cruelty. France considers foie gra
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s main opposition party faces a split in a disagreement over its future direction, with the party leader saying Friday that more than 30 lawmakers have effectively left. The conservative nationalist Law and Justice party ran Poland from 2015 to 2023, when the current lib
ROME (AP) — Archaeologists in Pompeii, the ancient city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, have unveiled the partially reconstructed frescoed ceiling vault of a banquet hall featuring detailed images of Greek mythology. The curved vault was presented late Thursday at the end of an in
LONDON (AP) — Andy Burnham is a man in a hurry. Since entering 10 Downing St. on Monday, Britain’s new prime minister has traveled to the southeast, southwest and northwest of England, and to Scotland, spoken to more than a dozen world leaders and made a flurry of small but symbolic economic announc
By Maria Cheng OTTAWA, July 24 (Reuters) – Canada will mark the opening of a bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, on Friday in a quiet celebration without U.S. officials after a dispute over toll-sharing and new threats of 50% tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump further st
By Asif Shahzad and Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD, July 23 (Reuters) – Pakistan is exploring a path towards a resumption of stalled U.S.-Iran talks over ending their nearly five-month-old war, three Pakistani sources said, following a push initiated by China. Exploratory discussions took place during a
DAKAR, July 24 (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s military government has allowed opposition leader Domingos Simoes Pereira to leave prison and travel to Portugal for medical treatment, his family told Reuters. • Pereira, the leader of the revolutionary PAIGC party and former prime minister, was moved back
SAN JOSE, July 24 (Reuters) – Costa Rican police captured Alejandro Arias, known as “Diablo,” known as the Central American country’s most wanted fugitive and sought by the United States on drug trafficking charges, judicial authorities said on Friday. Arias, 41, leads a violent transnational crimin
By Joseph Ax July 24 (Reuters) – A Georgia teenager who killed four people and injured nine others in a 2024 school shooting pleaded guilty to all 55 counts in his indictment in court on Friday. Colt Gray, 16, entered the plea in Barrow County Superior Court without having reached an agreement with
July 24 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Washington on Monday and will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, according to a statement from Netanyahu’s office. Netanyahu will also attend U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s funeral, his office said. (Reporting
LONDON, July 24 (Reuters) – A former British police inspector was jailed for 10 years on Friday for sexually abusing 18 young men during unlawful strip searches while they were in custody, prosecutors said. Gerard Hutchings, 67, used his status as a senior officer to prey on the victims, aged betwee
By Mahmoud Hasano and Aziz Taher ZAWTAR AL-GHARBIYEH, Lebanon, July 24 (Reuters) – Residents began entering the southern Lebanese town of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh on Friday, some inspecting damaged homes and searching for belongings after Israeli troops withdrew and the Lebanese army deployed under a U.S
