BEIRUT — Some Lebanese citizens called on Sunday for a sustained uprising to topple their leaders amid public fury over this week’s devastating explosion in Beirut, and the country’s top Christian Maronite cleric said the cabinet should resign.
Sunday, August 09, 2020
KABUL — The Afghan government agreed on Sunday to release 400 “hard-core” Taliban prisoners, paving the way for peace talks aimed at ending almost two decades of war.
WASHINGTON — Chinese government-linked hackers have been targeting U.S. election infrastructure ahead of the 2020 presidential election, White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said on Sunday, indicating a more active level of alleged Chinese interference.
FORT BREGANCON, France — An emergency donor conference on Sunday for blast-stricken Lebanon raised pledges worth nearly $298 million for immediate humanitarian relief, the French presidency said.
Thursday, August 06, 2020
LE HAVRE, France (Reuters) -- A gunman who took six people hostage in a bank in northern France on Thursday surrendered to elite police after a six-hour operation to free his captives.
BEIRUT/PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron promised angry Lebanese crowds in shattered Beirut that aid to rebuild the city would not go to “corrupt hands,” and he urged the political authorities to carry out reforms or risk plunging Lebanon deeper into crisis.
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
BEIRUT — Lebanese rescue teams pulled out bodies and hunted for missing in the wreckage of buildings on Wednesday as investigations blamed negligence for a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut, killing at least 135.
BEIRUT -- Walid Assi was cooking at a Beirut pizza joint on Tuesday night when a huge blast wave pushed him down. The ground beneath him shook. He saw a flash of white. The roof caved in.
Saturday, August 01, 2020
Iran said on Saturday its intelligence services have detained a U.S.-based leader of a pro-monarchist group whom it accused of being behind a deadly 2008 bombing and of plotting other attacks, and that he is being held in Iran.
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Even as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she would accept President Donald Trump’s plan to send a “surge” of federal agents to fight violent crime in Democratic-led cities, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller has rejected the deployment outright.
Two U.S. fighter jets came close to an Iranian passenger plane over Syrian airspace, causing the pilot to change altitude quickly to avoid collision and injuring several passengers, the official IRIB news agency reported on Thursday.
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
BEIJING/WASHINGTON -- The United States has told China to close its consulate in Houston amid widespread accusations Chinese officials have been involved in spying, marking a dramatic deterioration in relations between the world's two biggest economies.
Monday, July 13, 2020
KABUL/MAZAR-I-SHARIF -- Taliban militants clashed with security forces following a car bomb blast at a government compound in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing ten people and wounding dozens more, officials said.
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Officials in Portsmouth were breathing a sigh of relief Friday when it was announced that President Donald Trump decided to postpone his campaign rally at Pease International Tradeport due to the threat posed by Tropical Storm Fay, but some of his staunchest supporters were disappointed by t…
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong’s opposition camp set up polling booths across the Chinese-ruled city on Saturday for primary elections aimed at selecting democracy candidates who stand the best chance of success in Legislative Council elections in September.
Wednesday, July 08, 2020
OTTAWA — Canada handled the coronavirus outbreak better than many of its allies, including the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday in a rare public comment on the faltering U.S. effort.
Tuesday, July 07, 2020
ZURICH — The World Health Organization has received reports that the United States formally notified the U.N. Secretary General of its withdrawal from the WHO, it said on Tuesday, but has no further information at this stage.
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA -- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he tested positive for the novel coronavirus after months minimizing the severity of the pandemic and defying medical experts, even as the virus killed more than 65,000 people in his country.
Sunday, July 05, 2020
JERUSALEM -- Israel's defense minister said on Sunday it is not "necessarily" behind every mysterious incident in Iran, after a fire at the Natanz nuclear site prompted some Iranian officials to say it was the result of cyber sabotage.
DUBAI — A fire that broke out at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility on Thursday has caused significant damage that could slow the development of advanced centrifuges, an Iranian nuclear official said on Sunday.
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
WASHINGTON -- The United States should weigh new sanctions on Russia to deter its "malign" actions, a senior Democratic lawmaker said on Tuesday after a White House briefing on a reported Russian effort to pay the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
BRUSSELS — The European Union has excluded the United States from its initial “safe list” of countries from which the bloc will allow non-essential travel from Wednesday.
Monday, June 29, 2020
Iran has issued an arrest warrant for President Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani and has asked Interpol for help, Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday, according to the Fars news agency.
Monday, June 22, 2020
READING, England — The English town of Reading held a minute’s silence on Monday for the victims of a stabbing that killed three people, an attack that police called a terrorist incident.
Sunday, June 21, 2020
WASHINGTON — White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Sunday said he was in the room with President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping when they met, but never heard the U.S. president ask for China’s help in winning reelection.
DEAD SEA, West Bank — Palestinians are worried their restricted access to the salty waters of the Dead Sea and its mineral-rich beaches could be cut further if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
LONDON/GENEVA — A cheap steroid that can help save the lives of patients with severe COVID-19 should be reserved for serious cases in which it has been shown to provide benefits, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
Monday, June 15, 2020
SEOUL — North Korea on Tuesday blew up a building set up in 2018 in a border town as a joint liaison office to foster better ties with South Korea after threatening action if North Korean defectors went ahead with a campaign sending propaganda leaflets into the North.
Wednesday, June 03, 2020
LONDON — Thousands of people chanting “no justice, no peace” and “black lives matter” gathered in central London on Wednesday to protest after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Reuters reporters said.
Sunday, May 31, 2020
LONDON — Street protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis went global over the weekend, as demonstrators in London, Berlin and Toronto gathered under banners declaring that Black Lives Matter and called for an end to police brutality in the United States and around the world.
