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By Jan Lopatka Aug 27 (Reuters) – An arson attack planned by three suspects in eastern Slovakia targeted the drone maker Skyeton, the Slovak prosecution said on Thursday. The company produces intelligence gathering and targeting drones and has a facility in eastern Slovakia, according to its website.   “The attack was supposed to aim at the Skyeton company’s factory,” a spokesman for the regional prosecution office in the eastern city of […]

By Jekaterina Golubkova Aug 27 (Reuters) – Pavel Talankin, who filmed how one Russian school tried to justify the war in Ukraine to its students in a clandestine project for the Oscar-winning “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”, was guilty of treachery, his former teacher told Russian state TV. The documentary, by Talankin and David Borenstein, was based on two years of footage that Talankin recorded at a school where he was […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Regional powers sought an off-ramp from the war with Iran as another tanker attack was reported in the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran dismissed Washington’s latest sanctions. Elsewhere in the Middle East, a Jerusalem court acquitted a man accused of beating a Catholic nun but ordered him to undergo years of psychiatric hospitalization over the attack that drew global condemnation. Israel’s strikes in Gaza drew a sharp […]

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Norwegian King Harald was in “very serious condition” as his health deteriorated, palace officials said Thursday, prompting the queen and Crown Prince Haakon to cancel their engagements. The 89-year-old monarch, who has hemolytic anemia and has been on sick leave for several weeks, was admitted to the National Hospital in Oslo earlier this month. His condition had previously stabilized following a bacterial blood infection but the […]

TOKYO (AP) — Torrential rain struck Japan’s north-central prefectures of Ishikawa and Toyama on Thursday, triggering flooding and landslides, closing roads and stranding people in flooded homes and vehicles. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued the Level 5 heavy rain warning for parts of the Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures, urging residents in the affected areas to take precautionary measures against possible flooding and landslides. The rain subsided later Thursday and the […]

BEIJING (AP) — More than 100 of the nearly 1,300 people missing after massive floods in a border area of Nepal and China were on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, a sacred site in the Himalayas. The disaster left at least 168 people dead and displaced hundreds of people across the Himalayan region. Here’s what to know about the mountain and its centuries-old role as a pilgrimage site. Mount Kailash […]

NFL ends the Pro Bowl game, but players will still be honored as Pro Bowlers ATLANTA (AP) — The Pro Bowl is no more. The NFL announced the move Wednesday, bringing an end to an exhibition of the league’s top players that was held in some form almost every year since 1951. The game wasn’t played in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that was the only pause in […]

By Luc Cohen MIAMI, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate are due in U.S. court on Thursday to seek release on bail from a Miami jail as they contest extradition to Britain, where they are wanted on rape charges.  The Tate brothers’ hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET (1400 GMT) before Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis in Miami federal court.  Andrew Tate, 39, […]

By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Thursday will weigh a new legal challenge that seeks to block President Donald Trump’s name from being inscribed on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The hearing before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET (1800 GMT) and will mark the second time the court has […]