JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian investigators searched the National Nutrition Agency’s offices Wednesday a day after the president fired the head of the agency responsible for his troubled free meals program. It wasn’t clear whether the search by agents of the Attorney General’s Office was tied to a criminal investigation. The program delivered on a …
Raúl Castro turned 95 on Wednesday, a landmark birthday for a man still helping lead one of the last communist countries in the world. His name and face became synonymous with the 1959 revolution led by his brother, Fidel Castro. Decades after the triumphant revolution, Fidel Castro stepped down, and Raúl Castro served as Cuba’s …
ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 3 (Reuters) – Ukraine struck an oil export terminal in St Petersburg hours before President Vladimir Putin’s annual economic forum got under way in an attempt to embarrass the Kremlin chief and show how vulnerable Russia’s big cities are. The attack on St Petersburg, Putin’s home city, and the location of …
NEW DELHI, June 3 (Reuters) – At least 20 people were killed in a fire at a restaurant in the Indian capital Delhi on Wednesday, news agency ANI reported citing police. (Reporting by Hritam Mukherjee; Editing by YP Rajesh) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
June 3 (Reuters) – Republican Jim Desmond, a county supervisor and Democrat Marni von Wilpert are projected to advance to the November general election after Tuesday’s open primary for California’s 48th congressional district, U.S. media said. The seat was left vacant after Republican incumbent Darrell Issa opted against seeking re-election when the Southern California district …
June 3 (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps has attacked the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters and an airbase and helicopters in a regional country using missiles and drones, Iranian media reported on Wednesday, in response to what the IRGC described as a U.S. attack on an a communications tower south of Qeshm Island. IRGC navy …
NEW YORK (AP) — Mole people? Crocodile catchers? Mario brothers? A series of bizarre sightings of people popping in and out of New York City’s vast subterranean sewer system has the city wondering what exactly is going on, with police now probing the underground mystery. Security cameras have recorded at least three nighttime instances where …
June 3 (Reuters) – Russia has banned five British nationals, including The Washington Post journalist Catherine Belton and The i Paper correspondent Richard Holmes, from entering the country, the foreign ministry said on its website late on Tuesday. Belton is an investigative correspondent focusing on Russia and previously reported about the country for the Financial …
By David Lawder and Ryan Patrick Jones WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) – The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Tuesday opened a public comment process on the “U.S.-China Board of Trade” agreed by the two countries’ leaders last month that could lead to both sides cutting tariffs on some non-strategic goods. USTR said in …
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait said Wednesday it had suspended commercial flights after an Iranian drone attack hit the country’s airport, injuring a number of people hours after Iran and the United States traded missile strikes in the region. The attacks came after Iran stopped communicating with mediators about extending a ceasefire in …