Fire engines at the scene after several people were injured in an explosion in an apartment block in the eastern German city of Blankenburg, December 13, 2019. REUTERS/Marvin Gaul BERLIN (Reuters) – Police said they found gas canisters and old war munitions in an apartment where a blast occurred early on Friday in the eastern
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WHAKATANE (Reuters) – A New Zealand military team undertaking a high-risk operation to recover bodies of eight people killed in an eruption this week has landed on the volcanic White Island, the police said on Friday. Relatives hug as they wait for rescue mission, following the White Island volcano eruption in Whakatane, New Zealand, December
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump reprised his ridicule of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg on Thursday after the Swedish climate activist was named Time’s Person of the Year for 2019. Thunberg won the magazine’s annual honorific on Wednesday for her work inspiring millions of young people to take action against climate change. “So ridiculous. Greta
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s government said on Thursday it had some conditions before it could back a new EU climate commitment, including a demand that the bloc recognize that nuclear power will help in the fight against climate change. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, told a press conference that Hungary wanted
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Tourists from the cruise ship that was near the volcanic island in New Zealand when it erupted arrived in Wellington on Thursday, many traumatized by the deaths of co-passengers and others recalling their brush with tragedy. An aerial view of the Whakaari, also known as White Island volcano, in New Zealand, December
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel headed on Wednesday toward a third national election in less than a year with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing the fight of his life for political survival after a criminal indictment. A midnight deadline, the last of a series of set to allow for the formation of a new government after
Time cover features Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg named the magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019 in this undated handout. TIME via REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) – Greta Thunberg, the teen activist from Sweden who has urged immediate action to address a global climate crisis, was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for
WHAKATANE, New Zealand (Reuters) – Increasing tremors on a volcanic island in New Zealand on Wednesday prevented the recovery of the bodies of eight people thought to be left on the island, two days after an eruption engulfed dozens of tourists in steam and hot ash. Six people were killed in Monday’s explosion at White
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that recovery teams were hoping to access the volcanic island on Wednesday where eight people are missing and feared dead, two days after an eruption killed six people. FILE PHOTO: New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses the media following an eruption of the White
SOFIA (Reuters) – A Bulgarian court on Tuesday sentenced radical imam Ahmed Mussa and 13 other Bulgarians for propagating religious hatred and incitement to war in their support for the Islamic State militant group. The trial against Mussa and his supporters began in 2016 following an investigation into suspected sympathizers of Islamic State in southern
Police officers are seen near the site of a shooting in front of a hospital in Ostrava, Czech Republic, December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Lukas Kabon PRAGUE (Reuters) – An attacker shot dead four people and seriously injured two at a hospital in the northeastern Czech city of Ostrava on Tuesday, police said. Police said on Twitter
WHAKATANE, New Zealand (Reuters) – Eight people were missing and presumed dead on Tuesday after a volcanic eruption covered a small New Zealand island popular with tourists in hot ash and steam, killing five people and seriously injuring around 30 more. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said aerial reconnaissance flights showed no signs of life on
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came under fire on Monday for his response to being shown a photo of a sick child lying on a hospital floor ahead of the Dec. 12 election. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends the launch of a general campaign poster at the Kent Showground
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong protesters set fire outside court buildings, threw petrol bombs and spray-painted graffiti on government buildings, marring what was otherwise a “generally peaceful” march at the weekend, police said on Monday. Protesters attend a Human Rights Day march in the district of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, China December 8,
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to the heartlands of Brexit Britain in a final campaign blitz ahead of Thursday’s election, as he seeks to secure the parliamentary majority he needs to take the country out of the European Union. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson and main opposition Labour Party
WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un risks losing “everything” if he resumes hostility and his country must denuclearize, after the North said it had carried out a “successful test of great significance.” FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump attends the NATO leaders summit in
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi departed on Sunday for the U.N’s top court in The Hague to defend the country against charges of genocide of its Rohingya Muslim minority. FILE PHOTO: Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi walks off the stage after delivering a speech
DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and Iran each freed a prisoner on Saturday in a rare act of cooperation between two longtime foes whose ties have worsened since President Donald Trump took office. Iran released Xiyue Wang, a U.S. citizen who had been held for three years on spying charges, while the United States
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York City, New York, U.S., September 23, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in held a half-hour phone
LONDON (Reuters) – The leak and distribution of classified British-U.S. trade documents online is tied to a previous Russian disinformation campaign, Reddit said on Friday, fuelling fears that Moscow is seeking to interfere in Britain’s upcoming election. The opposition Labour Party said on Nov. 27 the classified documents showed the ruling Conservatives were plotting to
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
PARIS (Reuters) – France faced a second day of travel chaos, shuttered schools and understaffed hospitals on Friday as unions said they would be no let-up in a strike against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms until the president backed down. Protesters hold a banner during a demonstration against French government’s pensions reform plans in Paris as
(Reuters) – On Tuesday, World Human Rights Day, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will fight accusations of genocide brought against her country at the International Court of Justice at The Hague. FILE PHOTO: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers her Nobel acceptance speech during a ceremony at Oslo’s City Hall, Norway June
SOFIA (Reuters) – The Russian government has expelled a Bulgarian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move after Sofia declined a visa to Russia’s incoming defense attache, Bulgaria’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. Bulgaria’s ambassador in Moscow, Atanas Krastin, has been informed that the diplomat must leave Russia within the next 24 hours according to diplomatic protocol,
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is working on a plan to send about 270 seamen to the Middle East to guard ships supplying Japan under a law that allows military deployments for research and intelligence gathering, the Nikkei business daily reported. Japan maintains friendly ties with both the United States and Iran, and has said it
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A New York state bishop who had been at the center of a sex abuse crisis stepped down on Wednesday after learning the conclusions of a Vatican investigation, becoming the latest high-ranking prelate toppled by the decades-old scandal. Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo, New York,
BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Wednesday it resolutely opposes the U.S. House of Representatives’ bill requiring the Trump administration to toughen its response to what the bill called China’s crackdown on ethnic minorities in the western region of Xinjiang. The foreign ministry, in a statement attributed to spokeswoman Hua Chunying, said Xinjiang is China’s
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – In a highly unusual move, the Vatican has postponed the beatification of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a charismatic figure of U.S. Roman Catholicism in the 20th century and pioneer in religious media. Sheen, who died in 1979 and was sometimes called the first “televangelist,” was to have been beatified at
MADRID (Reuters) – The past decade is almost certain to be the hottest on record, weather experts warned on Tuesday, painting a bleak picture of vanishing sea ice, devastating heatwaves and encroaching seas in a report launched at a climate summit in Spain. An annual assessment of the Earth’s climate by the Geneva-based World Meteorological
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has completed an investigation into a plane crash at a Moscow airport in May that killed 41 people, and plans to formally charge the pilot with causing death by negligence, the Kommersant daily said. Citing an unidentified source close to Russia’s Investigative Committee, the state body that investigates major crimes, the
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