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By Kyu-seok Shim and Heejin Kim SEOUL, July 31 (Reuters) - South Korean military inspectors will visit an army corps on Friday to review an incident in which troops nearly shot down an unidentified ​aircraft near the border with North Korea before dete...

SYDNEY, July 31 (Reuters) - More than 8 in 10 Australian teenagers were still using social media three months after the government's landmark ban on the platforms for under-16s took effect because the tech firms failed to implement effective age checks...

July 31 (Reuters) - A drone attack touched off a fire at an energy facility and warehouses in Russia's ​Volgograd region on Friday, injuring five, ‌the regional governor, Andrei Bocharov, said, but stopped short of giving details of the facility. The r...

By Tim Kelly and Satoshi Sugiyama KUMAMOTO, Japan, July 31 (Reuters) - The ​death toll from ‌a powerful earthquake that hit southwestern Japan earlier this week rose to 34 ‌on ​Friday from ⁠25 previously, the ⁠Kumamoto prefecture government said in a s...

SEOUL, July 31 (Reuters) - An editorial carried by North Korean state media KCNA on Friday criticised the expansion of the ​U.S. Forces Japan command, warning that ‌a clash on the Korean Peninsula is now a matter of timing rather than just a possibilit...

HAVANA, July 30 (Reuters) - Cuba announced new details of its plans to open up key sectors of its state-run economy to private industry amid Washington's campaign of maximum pressure aiming to force an economic transformation on the communist-run islan...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine hopes a new push for ceasefire talks with Russia could halt the five-year war before a potentially brutal winter, but needs new anti-ballistic missiles now to defend against strikes by Moscow, th...

SYDNEY, July 31 (Reuters) - The Pacific island nation of Nauru has officially changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, reverting ​to its traditional designation in a ‌move it said was aimed at strengthening national identity and cultural heritage. N...

BUENOS AIRES, July 30 (Reuters) - Argentina's President Javier Milei on Thursday announced plans to reform the central bank's charter, a move aimed ​at strengthening the institution's independence and restricting ‌its ability to finance government spen...

By Ricardo Brito SAO PAULO, July 30 (Reuters) - Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Andre Mendonca has authorized federal police to investigate Fabio Luis Lula da ​Silva, son of President Luiz Inacio Lula ‌da Silva, over suspicions he improperly helped a l...

July 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald ​Trump ‌said on Thursday the Board of ‌Peace ​had ⁠reached an ⁠agreement for the complete disarmament of ​Hamas and all ⁠other ⁠armed groups ​in Gaza, ​which would be ‌carried out in phases ⁠and eventually lead...

MEXICO CITY, July 30 (Reuters) - The alleged leader of a criminal cell linked to Mexico's powerful Jalisco New Generation ​Cartel has been arrested for ‌ordering the assassination of a mayor in Michoacan state, Security Minister Omar Garcia said in a p...

BRUSSELS, July 30 (Reuters) - The European Union has agreed plans to establish a Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, EU ​Ambassador to Libya Nicola Orlando said on Thursday, as ‌the bloc looks to curb arri...

By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - A secretive U.S. court created 30 years ago to deport suspected terrorists convened for the first time on Thursday, opening a new front in the Trump administration's effort to remove non-citizens a...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the New World some five centuries ago, they brought muskets, cannons, armor, horses and attack dogs as they set about colonizing the Americas. But the biggest blow the...

By Julia Harte July 30 (Reuters) - A man who gave his troubled son the rifle he used to kill four people at a Georgia high school was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison, the culmination of ​the state's first case in which a parent was convicte...

QUETTA, July 30 (Reuters) - At least 18 coal miners were killed after an explosion buried parts ​of a mining complex in ‌Pakistan's Balochistan province on Thursday, the Balochistan government said. A rescue operation is still underway to find and reco...

WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday issued new sanctions on Thursday targeting ​global networks supporting Mahan ‌Air, the Iranian carrier Washington says transports Iran's Revolutionary Guards personnel, as well as weapons a...

By David Brunnstrom, Michelle Nichols and Emma Farge July 30 (Reuters) - A first informal U.N. Security Council poll on Thursday showed former Costa Rican Vice President Rebeca Grynspan as the early frontrunner to become the next U.N. secretary-general...

(Refiles to correct spelling of minister's name in paragraphs 3,5) By Emmanuel Bruce ACCRA, July 30 (Reuters) - Ghana's government has accepted a recommendation to extend the ​presidential term from four to five years, ‌the West African country's justi...