Israeli official rejects Gaza troop withdrawal and end to attacks
Tel Aviv [Israel], August 4: Israel remains opposed to withdrawing its troops from the Gaza Strip and halting attacks in the Palestinian territory, a senior...
Iraqi Kurdish regional leader meets Syrian president
Damascus [Syria], August 4: Nechirvan Barzani, president of Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region, has held talks with Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, in the first visit by...
Iran, Oman plan new Hormuz route
Tehran [Iran], August 4: Iran is negotiating with Oman over a joint temporary shipping corridor in the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, Foreign Ministry spokesman...
Tigray refugees flee into Sudan after violence
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], August 4: In northern Ethiopia, hundreds of Tigrayans, including wounded fighters, have been fleeing into Sudan after fighting between the Ethiopian federal...
Romania blasts Danube rock to boost water for nuclear plant
Bucharest [Romania], August 4: Romania's army blasted a rock in a branch of the Danube river in an effort to increase the flow of cooling...
Pressure on Moscow will bring peace in autumn, hopes Zelensky
Moscow [Russia], August 4: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hopes to put Russia under such pressure by autumn that it will agree to an end to...
Australia warns H5N1 likely to spread
Canberra [Australia], August 4: Australia has warned that H5N1 bird flu is likely to spread further, after the country's first mass mortality episode among seabirds...
Russian embassy in Italy blames Kiev for Moscow restaurant bombing
Moscow [Russia], August 4: Russia's embassy in Italy on Monday accused Ukraine of carrying out the deadly bombing at a Moscow restaurant over the weekend,...
Thousands ordered to evacuate as wildfires threaten US city of Spokane
Washington [US], August 4: Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate parts of Spokane in the eastern US state of Washington as firefighters battle...
Blazes near Athens still raging as firefighters tackle two big fronts
Athens [Greece], August 4: Wildfires burning in areas west of the Athens remained out of control on Monday, with firefighters battling two major fire fronts...
Myanmar releases footage of Suu Kyi meeting Red Cross representative
Bangkok [Thailand], August 4: Myanmar's military-led government on Monday released footage of jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi meeting an outside representative for the...
Cuba begins restoring power
Havana [Cuba], August 4: Cuba has begun gradually restoring power after another nationwide blackout, the sixth this year, as the island struggles to keep its...
Madrid denies intelligence warning over Ceuta crisis
Madrid [Spain], August 4: The government in Madrid has rejected allegations that it ignored warnings from the CNI intelligence service about a mass arrival of...
French forest fire reveals dozens of unexploded WWII grenades
Paris [France], August 4: A French ordnance disposal experts have discovered dozens of World War II grenades in an area ravaged by the major forest...
Israel kills 17 in Gaza as attacks escalate despite Trump plan
Gaza [Palestine], August 3: Israeli forces have killed at least 17 Palestinians in Gaza, despite United States President Donald Trump announcing a plan he describes...
No Hormuz breakthrough as Trump halts attack on Iran
Tehran [Iran] / Washington [US], August 3: United States President Donald Trump has once again held off on launching a major attack against Iran, but...
Hungary shuts down only nuclear power plant amid drought
Budapest [Hungary], August 3: Hungary announced it would shut down its only nuclear power plant after record-low levels on the Danube River reduced the water...
S Korea has hottest day on record amid extreme global weather
Seoul [South Korea], August 3: South Korea has recorded its highest temperature since national weather records began more than a century ago, as an intense...
Venezuela government and part of opposition to launch US-backed talks
Mexico City [Mexico], August 3: Venezuela's government and part of the opposition plan to launch US-backed talks on the country's political future, although the movement...
Saudi urges Trump to prioritise dialogue
Cairo [Egypt], August 3: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has called on US President Donald Trump to "prioritise the language of dialogue" to...
Death toll from Ceuta crisis rises to 72
Madrid [Spain], August 3: Further bodies have been recovered from the sea off Ceuta following the influx of tens of thousands of migrants into the...
Spain says migrants leaving Ceuta after mass influx in which 67 died
Madrid [Spain], August 2: Spain said "virtually all" of the estimated 60,000 migrants who stormed its North African enclave of Ceuta by land and sea...
Iran warns against 'flames of war' amid US threats on energy sites
Tehran [Iran], August 2: Iran's authorities have promised retaliation in case of threatened attacks by the United States against critical energy infrastructure, while military strikes...
Israeli strikes kill four across Gaza, destroy medical supply warehouse
Gaza [Palestine], August 2: Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed at least four Palestinians, with separate attacks hitting medicine warehouses beside a hospital that officials...
Moroccan rapper El Youbi provisionally released from prison after 18 days
Casablanca [Morocco], August 2: The politically outspoken Moroccan rapper and filmmaker Mehdi El Youbi has been granted a provisional release from prison in Casablanca, Morocco,...
Aftershocks rattle Naples area after strongest quake in decades
Rome [Italy], August 2: A series of aftershocks rattled the area around the southern Italian city of Naples overnight after the strongest earthquake to hit...
Renowned mountaineer Purja dead in Pakistan avalanche
London [UK], August 2: The company co-founded by Nirmal Purja has confirmed that the world-renowned former British Army and Royal Marines soldier has died in...