KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had had "open, honest and fruitful" talks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. "An open, honest, and fruitful meeting with the President of Serbia," Zelenskiy, who is visiting Athens, wrote on the Telegram messaging app under a photograph of the two leaders shaking hands. "Good conversation on...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Most Thais disagree with the leading plan for a coalition government which includes military-backed groups, an opinion poll showed on Sunday, two days before a parliamentary vote aiming to end a three-month political stalemate. About 64% of 1,310 respondents disagreed or totally disagreed with the idea of the Pheu Thai party forming a...
DUNGENESS, England (Reuters) - Dozens of men, women and children arrived on a shingle beach on the southern coast of England on Wednesday, tired but relieved to be brought ashore by a large orange lifeboat after making the risky sea crossing from France in rubber dinghies. They are the latest among more than 2,000 migrants who...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - PwC Australia's attempt to remove a partner after an internal investigation into the leak of confidential government tax plans hit a roadblock on Friday after an Australian court ruled the professional services firm failed to follow due process. The decision complicates PwC Australia's efforts to move past a national scandal which has cost...
SEOUL (Reuters) - Organisers of the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea, who have been grappling with a debilitating heatwave for days, were on Monday preparing for a typhoon to batter their huge campsite with wind and rain, officials said. Hundreds of those attending the jamboree of about 40,000 scouts from 155 countries have been laid...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's parliament on Monday reinstated opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi as a member after the Supreme Court suspended his conviction for defamation, the government said in a notice. Gandhi, whose father, grandmother and great-grandfather were prime minister, was convicted in March in a case brought by a lawmaker from the ruling Bharatiya...
SEONGNAM, South Korea (Reuters) - An apparently random stabbing attack in a commuter town near Seoul, the second such rampage in South Korea in less than two weeks, has sparked fear in a country that has long been considered safe with a low murder rate and strict firearm curbs. A man rammed his car into passers-by...
Trump has remained defiant despite an accumulation of legal woes that could see him tried in court and sent to prison before the presidential vote late next year. – AFP photo WASHINGTON (Aug 2): Donald Trump sought to spin his latest indictments into a 2024 campaign pitch today, with the former president arguing government “corruption” and...
Police at the site of the bombing that killed at least 54 people, including 23 children. – AFP photo KHAR, Pakistan (Aug 1): The Islamic State group claimed responsibility yesterday for a suicide bombing in Pakistan that killed at least 54 people, including 23 children, at a political party gathering ahead of elections due later this...
(Reuters) - As Ukrainian forces slowly push ahead with their 2023 counteroffensive after more than a year of shifting battle lines, the country's military and civilians face a deadly problem: land mines, potentially hundreds of thousands of them, scattered across roads, buried in fields and concealed in devastated cities. There are new, advanced types that can...
