The zoo in Russia's westernmost region says a tiger has attacked one of its staff after she entered the enclosure in violation of safety regulations. The Kaliningrad Zoo said in a statement on Monday the rare Amur tiger charged at the employee. Visitors shouted at the tiger and threw...
European Union finance ministers will on Tuesday discuss setting up a blacklist of worldwide tax havens, EU officials said, after leaked documents from an offshore law firm exposed new high-profile cases of tax avoidance. The decision to include the subject in the monthly meeting's...
Ben Affleck says the storm of sexual harassment allegations engulfing Hollywood has led him to examine his own behavior. In an interview Sunday with The Associated Press for the superhero film "Justice League," Affleck said he's "looking at my own behavior ad addressing that and making...
(Reuters) - A gunman entered a small church in southeast Texas and opened fire, killing at least 20 worshipers and wounding many others in the latest mass shooting to plague the United States, according to authorities and media reports. The shooting occurred at the First Baptist Church...
The U.N. received 31 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against its staff in the three months from July to September this year, Secretary General Antonio Guterres' spokesman said Friday. The accusations were leveled against U.N. staff from across the system. Twelve of the...
Life-threatening levels of malnutrition have risen dramatically among Rohingya refugee children who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, the United Nations warned Friday. The UN children's agency said preliminary data indicated a full 7.5 percent of the children crammed into one of the...
Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman responded Wednesday to an allegation of sexual harassment by a teenage intern on a film set over 30 years ago. “I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am...
A computer recovered in the 2011 U.S. special forces operation that killed Osama bin Laden contained a video collection that included kids’ cartoons, several Hollywood movies and three documentaries about himself. The list of the videos was included in the release Wednesday by the U.S. Central...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged tougher immigration measures based on merit, following the deadly truck attack in New York City. "We will stop this craziness," he said. Trump said on Twitter that the driver in Tuesday's attack "came into our country through what is called the...
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger has asked the United States to start using armed drones against jihadist groups operating on the Mali border, raising the stakes in a counter-insurgency campaign jolted by a deadly ambush of allied U.S.-Nigerien forces. On Oct. 4, Islamist militants with sniper...
A large explosion hit the Afghan capital Kabul Tuesday, in an area housing foreign embassies and government departments, causing numerous casualties. A Reuters television team counted eight people who appeared to have been killed, besides several wounded at the scene, which was...
Spain's Constitutional Court has blocked Catalonia's declaration of independence made by the regional parliament on Friday, a court spokeswoman said Tuesday. Hours after Catalonia's parliament voted on a unilateral declaration of independence, the Spanish government dissolved the...
Russia's foreign minister Tuesday said there was no evidence the country had interfered in U.S. elections, after a Washington probe accelerated with charges against three former aides to Donald Trump's presidential campaign. "We are accused of interfering not only in U.S. elections but...
SEOUL (Reuters) - Senior defense officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan held trilateral talks and urged North Korea to walk away from its “destructive and reckless path” of weapons development, the U.S. military said in a statement. Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of...
At least five people were killed Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, a militia member assisting the military against Boko Haram extremists said. The leader of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in Ajiri Yala, some 15 kilometers north...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Disputes about climate and immigration policy dominated German media ahead of resumed talks among Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and the environmental Greens about forming a coalition government. Officials from all...
Somali security forces have ended a night-long siege by at a Mogadishu hotel by five extremist attackers who stormed the building after a suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the entrance gate Saturday afternoon. The attack killed 23 people. Troops regained...
A bus carrying passengers returning from a Hindu festival to the Nepali capital of Kathmandu skidded off the main highway and plunged into a river Saturday, killing at least 31 people and leaving others trapped, officials said. The accident occurred around dawn, around 50 km west of the...
Spain's Senate Friday voted to grant Madrid powers to impose direct rule on Catalonia, shortly after the semi-autonomous region's parliament approved a motion declaring independence. The measures allowing Madrid to take control of Catalonia and deposing regional president Carles...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Results of Kenya’s presidential election re-run started to trickle in on Friday, with early estimates of the turnout at below 35 percent, dealing a blow to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s hopes for a decisive second-term mandate. With nearly all followers of opposition leader...
