A bear mauled to death a man at Vitosha, a mountainous region just outside the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, authorities said Monday. The 35-year-old man’s body was found in the area of Vitosha Nature Park on Saturday, and a forensic doctor and a big game expert determined he was killed by a bear, Bulgaria’s interior …
MOSCOW, May 19 (Reuters) – Russia on Tuesday begins three days of nuclear drills that will include the launch of ballistic and cruise missiles, the defence ministry said. The exercises, involving 64,000 people and 7,800 pieces of military equipment, will rehearse “the preparation and use of nuclear forces in the event of aggression”. Russian rocket …
NEW YORK (AP) — Trains are set to resume rolling on the Long Island Rail Road on Tuesday after a deal was reached to end a strike that had shut down the busiest commuter rail system in the country. Commuters in the New York City suburbs will still have to muddle through another tough morning …
Voters are going to the polls Tuesday for primaries in several states, including in the key battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania, while in Kentucky, Trump foe GOP Rep. Thomas Massie faces a challenger backed by the president. In Alabama, voters are weighing in on four out of seven House races, while the other three …
Russia’s army on Tuesday began three days of nuclear weapons drills involving thousands of troops across the country, as Kyiv escalates its drone attacks and with President Vladimir Putin headed to China. Throughout its more than four-year offensive in UkraineMoscow has flaunted its possession of nuclear weapons and repeatedly threatened to use them. The drills …
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — At least 131 deaths and over 500 suspected cases have been reported in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, the Congolese health ministry said Tuesday as details emerged about the government’s delayed response. Samuel Roger Kamba, the minister of public health, said: “513 suspected cases and 131 deaths have been …
Judge Alex Lee, one of the three government-vetted judges, said that they hoped to deliver a verdict in July for Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan, two former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. For decades, the now-defunct alliance organized the only large-scale public commemoration in China that …
By Makiko Yamazaki, Maria Martinez and David Lawder PARIS, May 19 (Reuters) – France’s finance minister urged the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to do more to help countries most vulnerable to the fallout from the Middle East conflict, as he hosted ministers from the G7 and other countries in Paris on Tuesday. …
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — When Australian farmer Rhys Smoker announced he’d found a live frog in a bag of lettuce, his housemates didn’t believe him. Smoker had been preparing a steak and salad dinner on Saturday for the three people who share his house in Esperance in Western Australia state when he spotted the frog …
BARCELONA/MADRID, May 19 (Reuters) – Police in Spain’s region of Catalonia detained the son of the founder of the Mango fashion group, Isak Andic, on Tuesday in an investigation of the death of his father, who was killed in a fall from a cliff near Barcelona in December 2024, the Mossos police force said. A …