BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday told his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi that China was “deeply distressed” over the war that has lasted more than two months and said a “comprehensive ceasefire” was needed. China’s top diplomat met with Araghchi in Beijing, the first time the Iranian foreign minister traveled to …
WARSAW, May 6 (Reuters) – A pilot was killed and more than 200 hectares of forest scorched after a firefighting plane crashed while battling a major blaze in eastern Poland’s protected Solska Forest, the country’s interior minister said on Wednesday. The fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon near the village of Kozaki in Biłgoraj County. …
MADRID, May 6 (Reuters) – The regional government of Spain’s Canary Islands is opposed to allowing a luxury cruise ship that has been hit by an outbreak of the deadly hantavirus to dock on the archipelago, its leader, Fernando Clavijo, said on Wednesday. “This decision is not based on any technical criteria, nor is there …
PARIS, May 6 (Reuters) – French shipping group CMA CGM said on Wednesday that one of its vessels, the San Antonio, had been the target of an attack while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, resulting in injuries among crew members and damage to the vessel. The incident, which CMA CGM said occurred on Tuesday, is …
May 5 (Reuters) – Anthropic has committed to spend $200 billion with Google Cloud over five years as part of a recent agreement, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing a person with knowledge of the matter. The commitment suggests the AI startup accounts for more than 40% of the revenue backlog Google disclosed to investors …
DALLAS (AP) — A former FedEx driver was sentenced to death on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to killing a 7-year-old girl he took from her Texas home while delivering a Christmas gift. Jurors in a Fort Worth courtroom decided on Tanner Horner’s punishment after hearing about a month of testimony and evidence that included …
SEOUL, May 6 (Reuters) – North Korea has revised its constitution to define its territory as bordering South Korea and remove references to reunification, according to a draft of the text reviewed by Reuters, codifying leader Kim Jong Un’s push to treat the two Koreas as separate states. The revision, believed to have been adopted …
By Alessandro Diviggiano and Maxim Shemetov CHANGSHA, China, May 6 (Reuters) – Senior Chinese officials took charge of rescue and relief efforts after a fireworks factory explosion killed 26 and injured 61, flattening buildings and burying people in mounds of debris, as they pledged to punish those responsible. Smoke still billowed from the plant two …
May 6 (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia of violating a ceasefire initiated by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at midnight on Wednesday, with officials reporting one person killed and three wounded in frontline areas in the north and east of the country. “Russia violated the ceasefire initiated by Ukraine at midnight between May 5th and 6th,” Ukrainian …
BUDAPEST, May 6 (Reuters) – Hungarian police have said that they are investigating the companies of one of the country’s top media players who won lucrative contracts under Viktor Orban’s outgoing government, on suspicion of misappropriation of funds and money laundering. The police statement late on Tuesday came after Gyula Balasy, the owner of several …