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STOCKHOLM, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Swedish police are investigating whether an 18-year-old man who attacked students at a Swedish high school with a sword on ​Friday, killing one, was involved in online ‌communities promoting school violence, a police sourc...

By Maria Cheng MONTREAL, Aug 22 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Donald Trump levied 50% tariffs on Canadian steel in June last year, a steel factory in Canada's mostly French-speaking province of Quebec lost about a third of its orders for bolts and fa...

BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) - A humanoid robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor ran 100 meters in 9.32 ​seconds, China's state broadcaster reported ‌on Saturday, beating the human world record held by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt. The r...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - An Iranian military official called on Qatar on Saturday to transfer detained Iranian pilots to a hospital on land, saying ​they were being held on water and ‌were in "poor physical condition", Tasnim news agency reported. Mohammad B...

LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Several people have died ​after a ‌collision near Middlesbrough in northeast England between a police ‌car ​and ⁠a passenger car, ⁠the local police force said on Saturday. Cleveland Police ​said the incident took ⁠place at ⁠a...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Iran has granted permission for a number of Iraqi oil tankers to pass through the Strait ​of Hormuz following repeated requests from ‌Baghdad through various channels, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. IRNA said obt...

By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The party of Pakistan's jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan filed a contempt petition against the government on Saturday after authorities took the cricketer-turned-politician to a ​state-run hospital inst...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - The governor of Russia's Samara region said on Saturday that Ukrainian drones ​had hit an industrial ‌facility, as well as a warehouse belonging to Ozon, a major Russian online retailer, in strikes overnight. In a ‌post ​on Telegram,...

By Humeyra Pamuk, Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - With the Iran war now at a costly standoff and crises from Ukraine to Gaza still unresolved, President Donald Trump's ambitious foreign policy agenda appears stuck as he h...

By Menna Alaa El-Din and Kanishka Singh CAIRO/WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The United States and Iran exchanged defiant messages ahead of Monday's scheduled announcement of new U.S. economic sanctions that could impact the Islamic Republic and Tehran...

By Menna AlaaElDin and Kanishka Singh CAIRO/WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The United States and Iran exchanged defiant messages ahead of Monday's scheduled announcement of new U.S. economic sanctions that could impact the Islamic Republic and Tehran'...

SYDNEY, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Australia's capital will join a gun buyback as part of a response to a shooting spree that killed 15 at a Jewish ​festival in Sydney, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said ‌on Saturday. Albanese's centre-left government enacte...

By Tarek Amara TUNIS, Aug 22 (Reuters) - At least 13 Tunisians are missing after a migrant boat sank off the Tunisian coast while sailing towards Italy and two people have been ​rescued, the head of a migrant rights group said on ‌Saturday. The boat, w...

TAIPEI, Aug 22 (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft transited the Taiwan Strait in international airspace on Friday, in a move the U.S. ​7th Fleet said "demonstrates the United States' commitment ‌to a free and open Indo-Pacific". The Chinese...

Aug 21 (Reuters) - A six-year-old Palestinian-British girl, whose parents and sister died earlier this ​week after getting into ‌difficulty in the sea off the southern coast of England, has also died in hospital, Sussex police ‌said ​on Friday. Saja El...

SAO PAULO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva continues to lead Senator Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of the October election, although ​the right-wing challenger has narrowed the gap ‌by one percentage point, a change within the...

WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Lawyers for Anthony Fauci have launched a legal defense fund for the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, saying that the need to respond to a growing number of state and federal investigations related to his handli...

By Robbie Corey-Boulet DAKAR, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Five people who the U.S. attempted to deport to Liberia this week resisted getting off the plane and were instead transported to Equatorial Guinea, another African country to which the Trump administrati...

CEUTA, Spain, Aug 21 (Reuters) - In front of a dozen reporters and a handful of local people, a crew of gravediggers in disposable protective overalls and facemasks on Friday started burying ​some of the scores of migrants who died in a ‌mass crossing ...

BRASILIA, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone on Friday and ​discussed tariffs Washington recently imposed on ‌Brazilian goods, according to a statement from Brazil's government...