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Russian courts target two outspoken critics of war in Ukraine
By Lucy Papachristou July 17 (Reuters) - Russian authorities have detained a blogger who criticised President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine and fined an anti-war politician, as Moscow sends a ...
Jul 17, 2026
China calls US visa regulations 'discriminatory', threatens countermeasures
BEIJING, July 17 (Reuters) - China on Friday urged the United States to withdraw its new "discriminatory" visa regulations and said it reserves the right to take reciprocal countermeasures. China reje...
Jul 17, 2026
Aid group says seven Americans quarantining at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban
By Emma Farge GENEVA/NAIROBI, July 17 (Reuters) - Seven American aid workers who had been in Congo to fight the Ebola outbreak are quarantining at a new isolation facility in Kenya after the U.S. gove...
Jul 17, 2026
UK police charge man over Iran-linked spying offences
LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) - British police said on Friday they had charged a 39-year-old man on suspicion of assisting Iran's intelligence service, the latest in a series of incidents involving Tehran...
Jul 17, 2026
Trump puts election security at center of Republicans' midterm fight
By Nandita Bose and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his effort to make election security a central issue in November's midterm elections, asserting that...
Jul 17, 2026
China suppressing Taiwan 'everywhere', vice president says of PNG pressure
TAIPEI, July 17 (Reuters) - Taiwan faces an extremely difficult diplomatic situation because China is suppressing the island "everywhere", Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim said on Friday after Papua New G...
Jul 17, 2026
Pakistan cargo crash families push for international help to find black boxes
By Akhtar Soomro and Ariba Shahid KARACHI, July 17 (Reuters) - Relatives of the five crew members aboard a Boeing 737 cargo plane that crashed into the Arabian Sea off Pakistan last week are urging an...
Jul 17, 2026
Landslide kills eight in southwest China's Chongqing, 34 still missing
BEIJING, July 17 (Reuters) - Eight people were killed and 34 others are still missing after a landslide in a county in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing on Friday, local government officials ...
Jul 17, 2026
Taiwan must heed calls to share responsibility for 'collective defence', president says
By Ann Wang TAICHUNG, Taiwan, July 17 (Reuters) - Taiwan must heed international calls to share the responsibility for "collective defence", President Lai Ching-te said on Friday, appealing for parlia...
Jul 17, 2026
Iran strikes eastern Syria, in first such attack during current war
BEIRUT, July 17 (Reuters) - Iran struck eastern Syria on Friday, Iranian state media and a Syrian military source said, in the first known attack by Tehran on Syrian territory since a regional war eru...
Jul 16, 2026
