LONDON (AP) — Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to break the fabled 2-hour barrier in the marathon. In a huge moment in sports history, Sawe smashed the men’s world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday. The second-place finisher, …
BAMAKO, April 26 (Reuters) – Sustained gunfire rang out in a garrison town near Mali’s capital on Sunday, a Reuters witness said, a day after an al Qaeda affiliate and Tuareg rebels carried out one of the largest coordinated attacks in the country in recent years. The gunfire in the town of Kati suggested that …
Police in Northern Ireland on Sunday declared a security alert in the town of Dunmurry, on the outskirts of Belfast, after reports that a car bomb exploded near a police station. Homes in the vicinity have been evacuated and members of the public are advised to avoid the area, the Police Service of Northern Ireland …
MOSCOW, April 26 (Reuters) – Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov has arrived in North Korea, Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday, the second senior Russian official to visit Pyongyang in recent days. Earlier, North Korean state media KCNA reported that Russia’s State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin had also arrived in Pyongyang and will attend the …
LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) – Britain’s government remains in close cooperation with U.S. security services ahead of King Charles’ visit to the United States this week, a senior minister said on Sunday, after a shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were rushed out of the dinner …
CAIRO, April 26 (Reuters) – Israeli military attacks killed at least four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials in the enclave said. Medics said an airstrike carried out by Israel’s forces killed one person near the central village of Al-Mughraqa, while Israeli gunfire and tank shelling killed two others near Gaza City. …
MOSCOW, April 26 (Reuters) – A fertiliser plant in Russia’s Vologda region was damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack on Sunday, local governor Georgy Filimonov said. Filimonov said a high‑pressure sulphuric acid pipeline was damaged in the city of Cherepovets at an Apatit complex, a subsidiary of PhosAgro, one of the world’s largest producers of …
By Gram Slattery, Bo Erickson and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) – The shooting on Saturday night of a Secret Service agent at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner raises questions yet again about the protection afforded to America’s political leaders at a time of increased political violence. Hundreds of agents from several law …
U.S. President Donald Trump said he told his top envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran, stating on Fox News that “they can call us any time they want.” Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country won’t negotiate while the United States imposes a blockade on its …
SLAVUTYCH, Ukraine (AP) — People streamed into the central square of Slavutych in the early hours of Sunday, placing candles on a large radiation hazard symbol laid out on the ground as a midnight commemoration began for those killed in the Chernobyl disaster 40 years ago and the thousands who risked deadly radiation exposure to …