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PARIS (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has not been invited to this month’s G7 summit, a French diplomat said on Wednesday, denying a media report published as European leaders seek a way to defuse a brewing confrontation between Tehran and Washington. FILE PHOTO: A combination of file photos showing French President Emmanuel Macron attending

Broken windows are pictured at the Tax Authority building at Oesterbro, where an explosion occured near Nordhavn Station, in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 7, 2019. Olafur Steinar Rye Gestsson/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – One person was lightly injured in an explosion outside the Danish Tax Agency’s office in Copenhagen late on Tuesday in what police

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong is facing its worst crisis since it returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997, the head of China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs office said on Wednesday, as more protests were set to rock the Asian financial hub. FILE PHOTO: Members of a group opposing the anti-government protesters

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the launch of tactical guided missiles on Tuesday was a warning to the United States and South Korea’s joint military drills, state media KCNA said on Wednesday. A man watches a TV showing a file picture for a news report on North Korea firing two

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Iran asked U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday to push back against the United States after it imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, describing the move as a “a dangerous precedent.” FILE PHOTO: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (not pictured) and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif attend

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Hindus forced out of Muslim-majority Kashmir decades ago are jubilant at the government’s decision to allow all citizens the right to settle there, with many considering an eventual return home if conditions are secure. Fireworks explode as Hindu saints and school children celebrate scrapping of special constitutional status for Kashmir,

FILE PHOTO: People take in a view from the Tate Modern building in London, Britain October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – A teenager appeared in court on Tuesday charged with attempted murder after a six-year-old French boy was reportedly thrown from a 10th-floor viewing platform at the Tate Modern art gallery in

TOKYO (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday any Turkish operation into northern Syria would be “unacceptable” and the United States would prevent unilateral incursions, as tensions between Washington and Ankara simmer. U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper arrives in Auckland, New Zealand August 5, 2019. REUTERS/Idrees Ali On Sunday, President Tayyip

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the United States on Monday, sharply escalating an economic and diplomatic pressure campaign aimed at removing socialist President Nicolas Maduro from power. FILE PHOTO: Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony to commemorate the Bicentennial of the Battle

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) – Two more victims of a shooting rampage at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, died of their wounds on Monday, police said, raising the death toll to 22 in the massacre as U.S. President Donald Trump planned a visit to the stricken community. The latest fatalities bring to 31

Indian security personnel stand guard on a deserted road during restrictions in Srinagar, August 5, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Ismail WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Monday it was closely following events in Kashmir after India said it was revoking the special status of the territory and expressed concern about reports of detentions. “We

GENEVA (Reuters) – Iran told European powers on Monday it would further reduce compliance with its 2015 nuclear deal in about a month’s time if they were still failing to protect it from crippling U.S. sanctions, reimposed after Washington exited the deal. FILE PHOTO: Iran’s national flags are seen on a square in Tehran February

FILE PHOTO: Marzuki Darusman chairperson of the Independent International Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar attends a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, September 18, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse JAKARTA (Reuters) – United Nations investigators urged world leaders on Monday to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s embattled leader warned on Monday that protests gripping the Asian financial center are a challenge to China’s sovereignty as strikes crippled transport across the city and led to the cancellation of more than 200 flights. Mass Transit Railway (MTR) subway personnel try to prevent a protester from blocking the

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two mass shootings that killed 29 people in Texas and Ohio reverberated across the U.S. political arena on Sunday, with some Democratic presidential candidates accusing President Donald Trump of stoking racial divisions while he said “hate has no place in our country.” Dozens were also wounded Saturday and early Sunday in shootings

A young boy places rocks on a card at the pile of flowers that has gathered a day after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, U.S. August 4, 2019. REUTERS/Callaghan O’Hare (Reuters) – Mexican foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Sunday that the attorney general would consider litigation claiming that

(Reuters) – A gunman dressed in body armor opened fire in downtown Dayton, Ohio, early on Sunday, killing nine people including his sister and wounding 27 others, authorities said, in the second deadly U.S. mass shooting in less than a day. Evidence markers rest on the ground after a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Nuon Chea, the chief ideologist and ‘Brother Number Two’ of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, whose brutal rule in the 1970s led to the deaths of some 2 million people, died on Sunday at the age of 93, a court spokesman said. FILE PHOTO: Nuon Chea, Pol Pot’s right hand man of the

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters took to Hong Kong’s streets on Sunday, a day after violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police, and as China’s official news agency warned Beijing will not let the situation in the Asian financial hub continue. Anti-extradition bill protesters march at Tseung Kwan O residential district in Hong

French inventor Franky Zapata takes off on a Flyboard for a second attempt to cross the English channel from Sangatte to Dover, in Sangatte, France, August 4, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman SANGATTE, Paris (Reuters) – French inventor Franky Zapata on Sunday succeeded in crossing the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard he designed, after a previous

FILE PHOTO: Turkish soldiers stand on a watch tower at the Atmeh crossing on the Syrian-Turkish border, as seen from the Syrian side, in Idlib governorate, Syria May 31, 2019. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Saturday said it welcomed news of a ceasefire in Northwest Syria – the last rebel

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police forcibly detained over 800 people attending a protest in Moscow on Saturday to demand free elections, including prominent activist Lyubov Sobol, after authorities warned the demonstration was illegal. Police removed Sobol from a taxi and bundled her into a van minutes before the start of what anti-Kremlin activists described as

SRINAGAR/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Thousands of Indian tourists, pilgrims and workers began leaving the disputed region of Kashmir after a local government alert over possible militant attacks, and India said it killed at least five militants who were trying to attack its forces. Foreign tourists disembark from a boat on the banks of Dal Lake as

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired tear gas on Saturday night in confrontations with black-clad activists in the city’s Kowloon area, as the Chinese-controlled territory was again rocked by anti-government protests. Police kept out of sight during an afternoon that saw tens of thousands of protesters march through what is ordinarily a busy

BANGKOK (Reuters) – South Korea is exploring all options in a bitter trade row with Japan, including scrapping an intelligence sharing pact, but wants a cooling off period with Tokyo, a senior South Korean official said on Saturday. FILE PHOTO: A police officer stands guard near Japan and South Korea national flags at a hotel,

FILE PHOTO: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif talks to the media during the Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Coordinating Bureau in Caracas, Venezuela July 20, 2019. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero/File Photo GENEVA (Reuters) – Iran will take another step to reduce its compliance with a landmark 2015 nuclear deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attend the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ East Asia Summit Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand August 2, 2019. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha BEIJING (Reuters) – The progress of repairing China-Australia ties, strained over Canberra’s concerns about Chinese influence in its domestic affairs, has been “unsatisfactory,” said China’s top diplomat after meeting his Australian counterpart. “During

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union governments picked Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva as the bloc’s candidate to lead the International Monetary Fund after more than 12 hours of talks on Friday that highlighted the EU’s internal divisions. FILE PHOTO: World Bank Chief Executive Officer Kristalina Georgieva attends a session of the Gaidar Forum 2018 “Russia and the

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro reacts during a news conference at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil August 1, 2019. REUTERS/Adriano Machado BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that if a senior government scientist had betrayed his confidence regarding deforestation data, he would be fired, underlining how growing international pressure to protect

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union governments will try on Friday to choose a candidate to lead the International Monetary Fund from a list of three names, after two candidates pulled out of the race, but divisions could delay a solution. Spain’s Minister of Economy Nadia Calvino delivers a speech during a news conference on the