World

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and U.S. President Joe Biden said today they agreed the Venezuelan government must quickly publish the vote tallies of Sunday’s contested election to end the crisis in the oil-producing country.

RABAT/PARIS, (Reuters) – France recognises a plan for autonomy for the Western Sahara region under Moroccan sovereignty as the only way of resolving a long-running dispute over the territory, President Emmanuel Macron said in a letter today.

KOCHI, India,  (Reuters) – Landslides swept through tea estates and villages in southern India’s Kerala today, killing at least 106 people while they slept as unexpected heavy rain collapsed hillsides and triggered torrents of mud, water and tumbling boulders.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary, whose followers have been linked to numerous plots around the world, was sentenced to life imprisonment today for directing a terrorist organisation.

CARACAS/MARACAIBO/MARACAY, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said yesterday the country’s opposition has 73.2% of the voting tallies from Sunday’s election, allowing it to prove election results it says give it a victory.

(Reuters) – Leaders across the Americas and beyond reacted to the Venezuelan electoral authority’s announcement just after midnight on Monday that President Nicolas Maduro had won a third term in office, despite multiple exit polls that pointed to an opposition win.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President  Joe Biden yesterday proposed sweeping changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including term limits and a binding code of conduct for its nine justices, but opposition from Republicans in Congress means the proposals have little chance of enactment.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr told U.S. cabinet secretaries Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin yesterday that regular engagements between Manila and Washington were needed to ensure “agile” responses to his country’s maritime tensions with China.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – At Singapore’s House of Seafood restaurant, the fish-head curry comes with a side of crunchy crickets, the tofu has bugs crawling out of it and the patrons can’t get enough.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) –  An Israeli drone strike killed two people and wounded three more in southern  Lebanon  yesterday, the Lebanese civil defence said, as Lebanon braced for Israeli retaliation following a rocket strike that killed 12 teenagers and children at the weekend.

SABAC, Serbia, (Reuters) – Thousands rallied yesterday in the Serbian city of Sabac to protest the Rio Tinto RIO.L, 

LONDON, (Reuters) – Mozambique has substantially won its $3.1-billion lawsuit at London’s High Court against Emirati-Lebanese shipbuilder Privinvest for allegedly paying bribes in relation to the decade-old “tuna bond” scandal.

PARIS, ( Reuters) – Vandals attacked telecoms lines in parts of France overnight, disrupting some fixed and mobile services, the junior minister for digital matters, Marina Ferrari, said on X today.

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel’s security cabinet on Sunday authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to decide on the “manner and timing” of a response to a rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 teenagers and children, and which Israel and the United States blamed on Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kamala Harris’s election campaign said on Sunday it has raised $200 million and signed up 170,000 new volunteers in the week since she became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, as Republicans continued to hammer Harris over her work as vice president.

BENGHAZI (Reuters) – A Libyan court has jailed 12 officials in connection with the collapse of a series of dams in Derna last year that killed thousands of the city’s residents, the Attorney General said on Sunday.

ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey might enter Israel as it had done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, though he did not spell out what sort of intervention he was suggesting.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new finance minister, Rachel Reeves, will accuse the former Conservative government on Monday of committing to billions of pounds of spending that has not been properly budgeted for.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s election campaign said today  it has raised $200 million and signed up 170,000 new volunteers in the week since she became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin today warned the United States that if Washington deployed long-range missiles in Germany then Russia would station similar missiles in striking distance of the West.