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MILAN, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Four artworks by 15th century painter Antonello da Messina have been stolen overnight from the Museo Regionale di Messina, Italian media reported citing a statement from the museum’s directorship. The theft deprives Messina of parts of the only surviving work by the Renaissance painter to have remained in his native city, as well as a small painting acquired by the Sicilian Region two decades ago.  […]

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A passenger bus traveling on a highway in Hungary early Sunday went off the road and into a ditch where it overturned, killing 12 and injuring others, police said. The bus, which carried Polish license plates, overturned around 140 kilometers (87 miles) east of Hungary’s capital, Budapest, at around 1 a.m. on Sunday. In a statement, police said it was likely that the driver fell asleep, […]

NEW DELHI, Aug 16 (Reuters) – India’s tax amnesty scheme for small taxpayers to declare certain undeclared foreign assets of up to 50 million rupees ($523,889) opens on Sunday and will be available until December 31, the government said. Here are more details of the scheme: • India’s finance minister announced the scheme in her February 1 budget, targeting small taxpayers such as students and non-resident Indians. • Taxpayers with […]

MOSCOW, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Ukrainian drones struck Moscow region overnight on Sunday in what the provincial governor said was one of the largest attacks to have targeted the region, and which he said had left at least one person dead. In posts on Telegram, Moscow region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said that an 83-year-old man had been killed, with several more injured in Podolsk, where he said a warehouse belonging […]

SANTA ANA ZIROSTO, Mexico (AP) — It didn’t take long for Mexican avocado picker Francisco Isidro to get back to work after authorities announced the lifting of a U.S. security alert that temporarily halted avocado exports. Back on the job the morning after the alert was lifted, Isidro threw a rope over an avocado tree about 20 feet (6 meters) high and climbed up. Fifteen minutes later, he had filled […]

JAKARTA, Aug 16 (Reuters) – A magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck eastern Indonesia on Saturday has killed at least 51 people, with rescue operations ongoing. Here are the deadliest earthquakes of the past decade, as recorded by Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency BNPB: PALU, SIGI – 4,141 DEATHS Sept. 28, 2018: Magnitude-7.5 earthquake triggered a tsunami and widespread liquefaction, devastating Palu city and surrounding districts in Donggala regency on the island of […]

DUBAI, Aug 16 (Reuters) – An Iranian military official said on Sunday that Qatar should allow an Iranian team to enter the country to investigate the fate of pilots whom Tehran says were captured by Qatari forces, Iranian media reported. Qatar denies holding any Iranian pilots. Doha said on Saturday that its search and rescue teams had found the remains of one pilot after Iranian aircraft violated Qatari airspace in […]

MADRID, Aug 16 (Reuters) – A flood and landslide caused by torrential rain killed two elderly women and injured two babies in rural northwestern Spain, authorities said, as seven regions were placed on yellow alert for storms and heavy rain on Sunday.      The deaths of the women, aged about 60 and 80 years old respectively, were confirmed by emergency services of the Castile and Leon region after the disaster late […]

By Rene Wagner BERLIN, Aug 16 (Reuters) – German companies slashed investments in the United States to a three-year low in the first half of 2026, as Trump administration policies fed uncertainty between the transatlantic trading partners. First-half direct investments plunged by nearly two-thirds year-on-year to €4.3 billion ($5 billion), the lowest level since 2023, according to calculations by the German Economic Institute, or IW, seen by Reuters. Compared with […]