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Problems with a cable likely caused a Lisbon funicular railway popular with tourists to hurtle down a hill, killing at least 16 people and injuring another 22 when it crashed into a building, according to a preliminary report. The yellow tram-like carriage, which carries people up and down a steep
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US President Donald Trump signed an executive order offering some tariff exemptions as soon as Monday to trading partners who strike deals on industrial exports such as nickel, gold and other metals, as well as pharmaceutical compounds and chemicals. Trump has spent his first seven months in office building up
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Nearly a week after an earthquake killed more than 2,200 people in Afghanistan and left tens of thousands homeless, the United States has not taken the first step to authorize emergency aid, and it was unclear if it plans to help at all, two former senior US officials and
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Russia’s Defense Minister, Andrei Belousov, held a meeting with the chief of staff of Libya’s national army Khaled Haftar, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday via its Telegram channel. Belousov discussed bilateral relations and the situation in North Africa with Haftar, the ministry added.
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Seoul said Friday that US immigration authorities detained a number of South Koreans during a major raid on a battery plant in Georgia, urging Washington not to infringe on its citizens’ “legitimate rights.” On Thursday local time, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE raided the “site of a (South Korean)
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US President Donald Trump has grown increasingly pessimistic about the chance of brokering an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict anytime soon or seeing the leaders of the two countries meet in person, NBC News reported on Friday, citing two senior administration officials. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.
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The Lebanese government is set to discuss on Friday an army plan to disarm Hezbollah, which the Iran-backed group opposes, accusing the cabinet of playing into the hands of Israel and the United States. In August, under heavy US pressure and fearing Israel would intensify its strikes, Lebanon’s government
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The streets of Indonesia’s capital were quiet on Friday morning after more than a week of sometimes violent protests, as the Muslim-majority country celebrated a holiday marking the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday. Crowds, led by students, workers and rights groups, took to the streets of Jakarta last week to
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A passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a precipice in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others, a police spokesman said Friday. The accident occurred near the town of Wellawaya, about 280 kilometers (174 miles) east of the capital Colombo, on
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Fifteen people were hospitalized Thursday after a double-decker bus mounted the sidewalk and crashed outside one of London’s busiest railway stations. Police said another two people were treated by medics at the scene of the crash near Victoria Station. None of the injures is believed to be life-threatening. The
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A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthis targeted a ship in the Red Sea on Thursday, officials said, as the group increased its missile fire targeting Israel. The attack off the coast of Hodeida follows an Israeli strike last week that killed the Houthis’ prime minister along with several officials.
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Israel’s defense minister vowed Thursday to inflict the biblical 10 plagues of Egypt on Yemen’s Houthi rebels after they stepped up their missile attacks against Israel. “The Houthis are firing missiles at Israel again. A plague of darkness, a plague of the firstborn — we will complete all 10
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Yemen’s Houthi-run Foreign Ministry said United Nations officials’ legal immunities should not shield espionage activities, days after at least 11 UN personnel were arrested in the capital Sanaa. The UN said on Sunday that Houthi rebels raided its premises in Sanaa and arrested UN staff following an Israeli strike
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French prosecutors on Wednesday said that a man who wounded five people before being shot dead by police in the southern port of Marseille was “not radicalized” but suffering from “psychiatric disorders.” Abdelkader Dibi, a 35-year-old Tunisian, stabbed several people on Tuesday at a hotel that had evicted him for
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Widespread flooding has hit several parts of northern India, officials said, with more thunderstorms forecast for Wednesday as local media reported that 10,000 people were evacuated from the river banks in capital Delhi. The monsoon season in India has been particularly intense this year, killing at least 130 people
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A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a stadium Tuesday night as supporters of a nationalist party were leaving a rally in insurgency-hit southwest Pakistan, killing at least 13 people and wounding 30 others, police and hospital officials said Wednesday. Local police chief Majeed Qaisrani said the blast occurred near