By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Attacks on Brazil’s indigenous people and invasions of their lands by illegal miners and loggers, mainly in the Amazon, increased dramatically in 2021, escalating…
By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s aggressive military response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan has increased interest from other countries’ parliaments in similar trips, the…
KABUL (Reuters) -A huge explosion struck a mosque in Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday, witnesses and police said, with many feared dead or injured. Police said there were multiple…
BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese troops will travel to Russia to take part in joint military exercises led by the host and including India, Belarus, Mongolia, Tajikistan and other countries, China’s defence…
(This content was produced in Russia, where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine) (Reuters) – Russian tourists took advantage of the heat and sun on Wednesday…
(Reuters) -A senior U.N. official said she had urged Myanmar’s military ruler to release political prisoners and stop executions on Wednesday, in a rare, high-profile visit that comes amid growing…
LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has suggested that racism is behind a lack of international attention being paid to the plight of civilians in…
AMMAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Syria’s government on Wednesday denied kidnapping or holding a U.S. journalist who disappeared a decade ago, a week after President Joe Biden demanded that Damascus let him go…
By Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian authorities performed disaster response drills on Wednesday following repeated shelling at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest of its kind…
(Reuters) -The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie said he respected Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini but would not say if he was inspired by a fatwa issued by the former Iranian…
By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian technicians at the Russian-held nuclear power plant hit by shelling work under the barrels of Russian guns and face huge pressure, but they are…
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) -NASA’s gigantic Space Launch System moon rocket, topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, began an hours-long crawl to its launchpad Tuesday night ahead of the behemoth’s…
By Ludwig Burger (Reuters) – Sanofi has stopped further work on amcenestrant, a treatment once seen to have strong commercial potential in breast cancer, after a second trial failure dealt…
By Nacho Doce KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Viktor Solovyanenko has gone out as little as possible since Russia invaded Ukraine because he fears stepping on unexploded munitions or sharp objects. He…
By Stephane Mahe LOIREAUXENCE, France (Reuters) – France’s river Loire, famous for the hundreds of castles gracing its shores, is a shallow river at the best of times, but this…
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s Black Sea fleet based in annexed Crimea has installed a new commander, RIA news agency cited sources as saying on Wednesday, after Russian…
By Aleksander Solum and Ann Wang HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) – Taiwanese F-16 fighters roared into the night sky on Wednesday in a show of force in front of the media,…
By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – A man arrested at Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle home on Christmas Day last year wearing a mask and holding a crossbow told security “I…
By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China is scrambling to alleviate power shortages and bring more water to the drought-hit basin of the Yangtze river as it battles a record-breaking heatwave…
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence ministry said 21 Chinese aircraft and five Chinese ships had been detected operating around Taiwan on Wednesday as Beijing continued military activities near the island.…
LONDON (Reuters) – The top official in Russian-annexed Crimea said on Wednesday that the FSB security service had broken up what he described as a six-person terrorist cell of a…
By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The last text message Darin Taylor Hoover sent his mother from Kabul’s airport a year ago was short but one she still reads every…
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s former prime minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday he decided to be secretly sworn in to five key ministries during the coronavirus pandemic because…
By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) -A Hong Kong court on Wednesday lifted a reporting restriction on a landmark national security case involving a now disbanded group…
By Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired two cruise missiles from the west coast town of Onchon early on Wednesday, a South Korean military source said. The source added…