By Manuel Ausloos and David Latona BORDEAUX/MADRID July 26 (Reuters) - Wildfires advanced towards the outskirts of the historic city of Bordeaux, at the heart of France's winelands, on Sunday as France and Spain battled blazes that have forced the evac...

By Laura Garcia TEGUCIGALPA, July 26 (Reuters) - Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez is set to return to Honduras on Sunday, eight months after U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned him while he was serving a 45-year U.S. prison ​sentence f...

By Elviira Luoma PAIMIO, Finland, July 26 (Reuters) - A sanatorium designed to foster a soothing environment to help tuberculosis patients recover was among a series of sites by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto to join UNESCO's ​World Heritage List on Sun...

By David Brunnstrom July 26 (Reuters) - Ugandan diplomat Olara Otunnu has joined the contest to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations, the seventh contender to succeed Antonio Guterres when he ​steps down at the end of this year. Otun...

DAKAR, July 26 (Reuters) - Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has launched a new ​political party, formalising his ‌break with former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and the ruling Pastef party that swept him ‌to ​power in 2024. • ⁠Faye unveiled hi...

MOSCOW, July 26 (Reuters) - A Soyuz ​MS-28 ‌spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov ‌and ​Sergei ⁠Mikayev as ⁠well as NASA astronaut Christopher Williams ​has returned ⁠to ⁠earth, Russia's ​Roscosmos space ​agency said on ‌Sunday. T...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) A lawyer representing the family of a man shot by police is calling for criminal charges against the officer who fired the fatal shot. Ben Crump, who represents the family of Corey Ruiz said, "They not only tackled him, not only tased him, not only kicked him, but you saw they shot him three ti...

CAIRO, July 26 (Reuters) - An Israeli airstrike on Sunday killed a senior officer of the Hamas-run Palestinian internal security service in the Gaza Strip and ​an associate as they travelled in a vehicle through ‌Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, medics a...

By Miranda Murray BERLIN, July 26 (Reuters) - Members of Berlin's LGBTQ community and others voiced grief, anger and solidarity on Sunday after a vehicle rammed into crowds at the city's annual Christopher Street Day Pride celebrations, killing ​one pe...

BUCHAREST, July 26 (Reuters) - A Romanian F-16 fighter jet pilot shot down a Russian drone over the Black Sea, the defence ministry said on Sunday, the latest in a series of breaches of the NATO member's airspace ​that President Nicusor Dan called "ina...

PARIS, July 26 (Reuters) - The Normandy D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, to ​fight Adolf Hitler's Nazi troops ‌and go on to liberate France have become a UNESCO protected world heritage site, the United Nations body said on Sun...

HONG KONG, July 26 - China said on Sunday it organised a routine patrol ​by its naval ‌and air forces in the South China Sea, accusing the Philippines of holding patrols with foreign countries ‌in ​the disputed waterway ⁠that undermined regional ⁠peace...

By Ali Sawafta and Mohammed Torokman QUSRA, West Bank, July 26 (Reuters) - Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank early on Sunday, setting fire to two mosques and scrawling graffiti on buildings, Palestinian officials ...

By Manuel Ausloos BORDEAUX, France, July 26 (Reuters) - Firefighters battled to control wildfires threatening the French city of Bordeaux on Sunday, while authorities evacuated ​increasing numbers of people from its suburbs. The ‌southwestern French re...

By Simon Jessop and Marc Jones LONDON, July 26 (Reuters) - An impending "super" El Niño is likely to inflict a combined $10 billion to $20 billion hit on affected African countries and trigger mass migration from hard-hit areas, the African Development...