FILE PHOTO: Road direction signs are pictured at the entrance en route to Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib, Syria August 24, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki/File Photo BEIRUT (Reuters) – Air strikes by Syrian government and Russian forces killed at least 20 people in rebel-held northwestern Syria on Saturday, activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The
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FILE PHOTO: People walk past by a branch of Halkbank in central Istanbul, Turkey, October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Huseyin Aldemir/File Photo ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s majority state-owned Halkbank said on Friday that it will use all its legal rights to challenge a U.S. Federal Court ruling that it must enter a formal plea to charges that
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) – Indian police shot dead four men on Friday who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian near Hyderabad city, an action applauded by her family and many citizens outraged over sexual violence against women. People shout slogans as they celebrate after police shot dead four men suspected of raping
FILE PHOTO: A woman rides a bike next to a barricade during protest in Santiago, Chile December 3, 2019. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chileans are increasingly turning to bikes to get to work after weeks of rioting have hobbled Santiago’s metro system, destroyed hundreds of stop lights and left broken glass and debris littering
FILE PHOTO: Turkish drilling vessel Yavuz is pictured in the eastern Mediterranean Sea off Cyprus, August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File Photo ATHENS (Reuters) – Cyprus has petitioned the International Court of Justice at The Hague to safeguard its offshore mineral rights, its president said on Thursday, as neighbor Turkey disputes its claims. The two countries
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian unions and student groups are holding a third national strike on Wednesday amid fraught talks between protest leaders and the government over President Ivan Duque’s social and economic policies. Demonstrators take part in a protest as a national strike continues in Bogota, Colombia December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez The strike is
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China warned on Wednesday that the U.S. House of Representatives bill calling for a tougher U.S. response to Beijing’s treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority will impact bilateral cooperation, casting further doubts on a near-term deal to end the trade war. Expectations of a quick deal had receded already, after U.S. President
The yacht La Vagabonde, with climate change activist Greta Thunberg on board, approaches Santo Amaro port in Lisbon, Portugal December 3, 2019. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante MADRID (Reuters) – The catamaran carrying climate activist Greta Thunberg was seen approaching a port in Lisbon on Tuesday morning after a 20-day crossing from New York, Reuters Television footage showed.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Russia has refused a Dutch request to hand over a suspect in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, in violation of European law, prosecutors said on Monday. FILE PHOTO: Activists of Ukrainian nationalist groups shout slogans during a protest against a court decision to release on bail Volodymyr Tsemakh, suspected of
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday it has suspended the review of requests by U.S. military ships and aircraft to visit Hong Kong in response to legislation passed by U.S. lawmakers in support of protesters in the China-ruled territory. The Chinese government also sanctioned U.S.-headquartered non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch for supporting
Italian coastguards carry the body of a migrant victim of a boat that capsized off the Italian coast, on the island of Lampedusa, Italy November 30, 2019. REUTERS/Mauro Buccarello (Reuters) – The bodies of five migrants who died when a boat capsized in rough waters off the southern Lampedusa coast a week ago have been
LONDON (Reuters) – The 28-year-old British man who killed two people in a stabbing spree on London Bridge before police shot him dead had been released from prison after a previous conviction for terrorism offenses, prompting recriminations ahead of an election. Wearing a fake suicide vest and wielding knives, Usman Khan went on the rampage
LONDON (Reuters) – British police on Friday shot dead a man wearing a fake suicide vest who stabbed two people to death in London and wounded three more before being wrestled to the ground by bystanders, in what the authorities called a terrorist attack. The attacker went on the rampage just before 2 p.m. (1400
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric on Friday condemned attacks on protesters and urged lawmakers to reconsider their support for the government, an apparent suggestion that they seek a change of leadership as violence spirals in the war-weary country. A man shows the casings from bullets which were allegedly used against protesters who
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – President Donald Trump made a surprise Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Thursday and said he believed Taliban insurgents would agree to a ceasefire in America’s longest war. U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to U.S. troops in an unannounced visit to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, November 28,