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President Zelenskiy announces use of U.S.-made fighter planes...

Ukraine’s human rights commissioner urged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations to investigate an image widely shared online on Saturday that he said likely showed a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war killed and dismembered by Russian forces....

Ilya Yashin, imprisoned in 2022 for criticizing Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, said he had not given his consent to deportation and that others in more urgent need of medical care should have gone instead....

Aug 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday revoked plea deals agreed to earlier this week with the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two accomplices, who are held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

BRASILIA, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has requested a phone call with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva amid tensions over a contested election, a Brazilian source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday....

WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The leaders of foreign affairs committees of the U.S. Congress and legislatures across Europe have joined to condemn the Venezuelan government’s handling of last weekend’s disputed election, according to a statement seen by Reuters, an unprecedented show of unity intended to pressure Caracas to...

CARACAS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said on Friday that the United States is “at the forefront of a coup attempt” against the South American country amid a dispute over presidential election results that sparked protests.

CARACAS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said on Friday that the United States is “at the forefront of a coup attempt” against the South American country amid a dispute over presidential election results that sparked protests.

ABUJA, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Nigerian police are on red alert and may seek the help of the military after protests against the cost of living and governance issues turned violent in some cities, the inspector general of police said....

opposition movement on Friday said its headquarters had been vandalized amid ongoing tensions over a disputed presidential election, as the country’s foreign minister said the U.S. was at the forefront of what the government calls a coup attempt....

TUNIS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Tunisian opposition parties, presidential candidates and human rights groups have accused the authorities of using “arbitrary restrictions” and intimidation in order to ensure the re-election of President Kais Saied in a vote set for Oct. 6....

BARCELONA, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Grassroots members of Catalonia’s separatist ERC party were voting on Friday on a regional government deal with Spain’s ruling Socialists that could patch up Madrid’s uneasy relations with the region but also impact Spain’s entire fiscal system....

Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Russian nationals, including Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva and their children, following a prisoner exchange between Russia with Western countries, during a ceremony at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia August 1, 2024...

BERLIN, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Relatives of the man murdered by a Russian hitman in a Berlin park have voiced disappointment at the killer’s release, reflecting unease in Germany at the moral equation that secured freedom for 16 political prisoners in Russian and Belarusian jails....

Indonesia said it has banned the privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo, citing concerns that it could be used to access pornography and online gambling websites which are illegal in the country, the communications ministry said on Friday....

Aug 1 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in California on Thursday threw out a $4.7 billion verdict against the National Football League in a lawsuit claiming it overcharged subscribers to its Sunday Ticket game telecasts for more than a decade....