Posted inASIA NEWS
Mountaineer Nirmal Purja killed in Pakistan avalanche, his company says
The Nepali-born climber was known for scaling the world's 14 highest peaks in just over six months in 2019.
Posted inMIDDLE EAST
Israeli strikes kill two in Gaza, destroy medicine storage warehouses
By Mahmoud Issa and Alexander CornwellDeir al-Balah, GAZA/TEL AVIV, July 28 (Reuters) - Israel's military on Saturday killed two Palestinians in Gaza and destroyed two warehouses near a hospital that…
Posted inMIDDLE EAST
Soccer-Infantino’s FIFA future in jeopardy after private equity gamble backfires
By Ian Ransom and Kokkai NgAug 1 (Reuters) - FIFA president Gianni Infantino, hitherto untouchable at the helm of soccer's global governing body, suffered a crushing blow on Friday when…
Posted inMIDDLE EAST
Iranian pilgrims flood Iraq for first Arbaeen since war
Under a blazing sun, clad in black and clutching portraits of their slain leader Ali Khamenei, Iranian pilgrims streamed across the border into Iraq to observe the Arbaeen, the most…
Posted inEUROPE NEWS
Spain attacks ‘selfish’ response of some EU countries to Ceuta migrant crossings
Italy has temporarily suspended the Schengen arrangement with Spain as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called scenes in Ceuta "shocking".
Posted inFOOTBALL
Uefa has ‘lost confidence’ in Fifa leadership
Uefa has lost confidence in the current Fifa leadership of Gianni Infantino as the fallout from the scrapped controversial investment plan intensified.
Posted inMIDDLE EAST
Egypt captains recount scramble to stop disaster after drone strike
Marine officers who battled fires aboard two gas vessels struck in a drone attack on Egypt's port of Damietta feared the ships were "a bomb waiting to explode" that could…
Posted inMIDDLE EAST
Migrants depart Spain’s N. Africa enclave as EU tightens borders
Almost all of the tens of thousands of migrants who entered Spain's enclave of Ceuta in North Africa had left by Saturday, officials said, as some EU countries bolstered their…
Posted inMIDDLE EAST
Soccer-FIFA faces fresh transparency calls after retreat on World Cup sell-off plan
Aug 1 (Reuters) - FIFA faced renewed calls for transparency on Saturday after it abruptly shelved plans to sell a stake in the commercial rights to the World Cup, a…
Posted inEUROPE NEWS
Spain’s PM blames traffickers after 60,000 migrants reach Ceuta from Morocco
Spain said most had returned to Morocco by Friday evening, as Italy suspended its Schengen agreement on free movement with Madrid.