Mexico arrests Ovidio Guzman, son of “El Chapo,” in night of violence

By Lizbeth Diaz and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican drug cartel leader Ovidio Guzman, a son of incarcerated kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has been arrested by Mexican authorities, ...

Anger rises among US House GOP as leadership fight drags on

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three days into a standoff over who would lead the Republican-majority U.S. House of Representatives, members of the party expressed anger that a small group of hardline ...

France to send Ukraine fighting vehicles, Kyiv asks allies for more tanks

PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron told Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy his government would send light AMX-10 RC armoured combat vehicles to help in the war against Russia,...

US says Bradley Fighting Vehicles are on the table for Ukraine

HEBRON, Kentucky (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said that sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine was being considered to help the that country fight Russia's invasion. "...

Lebanese military court charges 7 over fatal peacekeeper attack, sources say

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's military tribunal on Thursday charged seven people over a December attack that killed one Irish soldier serving in a United Nations peacekeeping force, three Lebane...

Australia to spend $684M on new naval missiles, rocket system

(Reuters) - Australia said on Thursday it would be investing more than A$1 billion ($684 million) to buy new naval missiles and a land-based, long-range, surface-to surface High Mobility Artill...

Belarus to beef up joint military grouping with Russia

(Reuters) -Belarus and Russia continue to build up a joint military grouping in Belarus and are preparing joint air force exercises, the Belarusian Defence Ministry said on Thursday. The minist...

Leaders of Turkey, Syria could meet for peace, Erdogan says

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he may meet Syria's Bashar al-Assad as part of a new peace process, after their defence ministers met last week for the hig...

Pakistani Taliban claim killing of two intelligence officials

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Islamist militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban on Wednesday claimed the killing of a senior official of Pakistan's premier intelligence agency and another offi...

US House GOP faces stalemate as McCarthy seeks speakership

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican Kevin McCarthy's bruising quest to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives entered a second day on Wednesday, with the party's new majority fracture...

Mexico sends troops to border state after prison jailbreak sparks manhunt

MEXICO CITY/CIUDAD JUAREZ (Reuters) -Mexico's defense ministry said on Tuesday it had flown 200 military personnel to the northern border city of Juarez to fight organized crime there, days aft...

Russia says 89 troops were killed in New Year's attack, blames use of mobile phones

(Reuters) -Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that 89 servicemen were killed in the Ukrainian attack on Makiivka in the Moscow-controlled parts of the Donetsk region, adding the main r...

Ukraine says Russia plans new mobilization to “turn tide of war”

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was planning to call up more troops for a major new offensive, even as Moscow was facing some of its biggest internal critici...

Putin sends hypersonic missile frigate to Atlantic

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday sent off a frigate towards the Altantic and Indian oceans armed with new hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles which he said were uni...

Car bombs kill at least 15, level houses in central Somalia

MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Two car bombs detonated by al Shabaab militants killed at least 15 people and flattened homes in central Somalia's Hiraan region on Wednesday, a resident involved in the re...