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Wildfires spread across Greece, conditions worsen in France and Spain
Wildfires fanned by gale-force winds burned across multiple areas of Greece Saturday, forcing residents to flee as conditions worsened again in parts of Spain and France. In one escalating Greek blaze, firefighters, police and ambulances slowly withdrew before a huge wall of fire and smoke engulfing forests and shrub near Porto Germeno on the Gulf of Corinth 60 kilometers northwest of Athens. "The situation is extremely hard, especially today. We have really strong winds, gusts exceeding 73 ki
Aug. 2, 2026 -
Multiple people dead after shooting at fast food restaurant in southern Idaho
A shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho on Saturday afternoon left multiple people dead and others injured, police said. The shooter was among the dead, Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said in a news conference. Police were still trying to determine the shooter’s identity and motive. “We believe the threat to the community is over,” Hicks said. He added that he did not yet know exactly how many were killed or wounded, and officials were still in the process of notifyi
Aug. 2, 2026 -
US Justice Department subpoenas New York Times freelancer over North Korea story, paper says
The US Justice Department has subpoenaed the records of a freelance journalist for the New York Times as part of a probe into the sourcing of a 2025 story about a botched US military operation in North Korea, the newspaper said on Saturday. Freelancer Matthew Cole was subpoenaed in February by Virginia prosecutors seeking more than two years' worth of his notes as well as his testimony, according to the newspaper. Reuters could not immediately independently verify the information, but a spok
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US-Iran conflict enters new phase as Saudi Arabia helps hit proxies and diplomacy stalls again
The stop-start fighting between the US and Iran appears to have entered a new phase as Saudi Arabia has publicly joined military escalations against Tehran-backed proxies. At the same time, an already untenable diplomatic effort to end the war has faltered once again as mistrust deepens between the longtime adversaries. Despite several days of relative calm, both sides carried out military strikes in the last 24 hours that once again risk a return to all-out war — and further expansion in the re
July 30, 2026 -
Cuba loosens control of private sector
In an effort to fend off a mounting humanitarian crisis, Cuba on Wednesday eased up on longtime restrictions on private vendors and imports, opening up a sector firmly controlled by the Communist-led government. The reforms would allow for the import and resale of some goods and medicines from other countries, loosen restrictions on oil extraction for foreign companies and implement other changes at a time when the country is plagued by medical and energy shortages. While private enterprise has
July 30, 2026 -
Italy’s highest court strengthens citizenship claims by descendants of Italian emigrants
ROME (AP) — Italy’s highest court has ruled that children born with Italian citizenship do not automatically lose it when a parent later becomes a citizen of another country, a decision expected to bolster citizenship-by-descent claims by descendants of Italian emigrants worldwide. The ruling resolves a long-running legal dispute known as the “Minor Issue,” which has affected thousands of ancestry-based citizenship cases involving families who left Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
July 30, 2026 -
Fastest growing Ebola worsens Congo's hunger
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is leaving thousands more people hungry in eastern Congo, a region engulfed in conflicts and a fight over precious minerals, the head of the UN food agency warned Wednesday. The World Food Program’s acting executive director, Carl Skau, told The Associated Press during a visit to the hard-hit Ituri province that the outbreak is a “crisis on top of a crisis” that has compounded a catastrophic situation with over 5 million Congol
July 30, 2026 -
Fauci repeatedly invokes Fifth Amendment in contentious Senate committee hearing
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer dozens of questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision, at least for now, shielded Fauci from answering questions that could expose him to accusations of lying under oath. Though he received a pardon in early 2025 from Democratic former US President Joe Biden, some Republicans pursuing a yearslong campaign for his arrest had sugge
July 30, 2026 -
Southern Europe burns as 3 firefighters die and France battles blaze 4 times the size of Paris
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) — An uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris threatened to surge again in southwest France on Wednesday — as three firefighters died in Greece and crews across southern Europe confronted a punishing mix of heat, drought and strong winds. The deaths on Crete brought a fatal new dimension to a wildfire emergency stretching from the Atlantic coast to the eastern Mediterranean. At the peak of the evacuations, a third of a million people were driven from homes a
July 30, 2026 -
Warsh-led Fed leaves rates on hold
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A divided Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Wednesday even as US central bank chief Kevin Warsh pledged an unwavering commitment to bring inflation down, a message that left markets confused about just what he was prepared to do. Warsh, in what has become characteristic fashion, declined during a press conference to offer any clues about what action would be needed to contain inflation that has held above the Fed's 2 percent target for more than five years, p
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Yemen gov't says Houthis planning to impose fees for Red Sea transit
A minister in Yemen's internationally recognised government on Wednesday accused Houthi rebels of working under Iranian guidance to establish a system to impose fees for ships transiting the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait. The narrow maritime artery has been a critical waterway for delivering vast quantities of Saudi crude to the international market, after energy exports were largely choked off by fighting in the Strait of Hormuz. Information minister Moammar al-Eryani described "the move
July 29, 2026