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People fly kites from rooftops as they celebrate Independence Day in the Old quarters of Delhi, India, August 15, 2017. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
U.S. President Donald Trump no doubt pleased part of his political base by passionately arguing that both right- and left-wing extremists were responsible for violence at a white supremacist rally in Virginia on Saturday. But his remarks, one day after he, under pressure, explicitly condemned neo Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, left White House officials bracing for fallout from disappointed Republicans whose support he needs to govern in the coming months and years. Two people who say they were injured in a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia sued the man charged with killing a woman by driving his car through the crowd as well as the event's organizers on Tuesday for $3 million. Confederate monuments removed in Baltimore: media Lincoln Memorial in Washington defaced with expletive Banish Bannon? Trump weighs his options as top aides feud Texas 'bathroom bill' dies in special legislative session Trump criticized Amazon.com on Twitter over taxes and jobs and accused the global retailer, without evidence, of hurting U.S. localities and causing job losses. Shares of the company fell 0.5 percent at $978.00 in premarket trade after Trump's comments. Luther Strange, a Republican candidate backed by President Donald Trump for a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama is expected to finish a distant second in a primary election, but will still have enough votes to advance to a run-off, local news projected.
North Korea Japanese jets conducted air maneuvers with U.S. bombers southwest of the Korean peninsula on Wednesday as North Korea considered whether to fire missiles towards the U.S.-administered territory of Guam. Graphic: The maps and photos that show how North Korea could attack Guam
Aerospace & Defense With its wall-sized screens simultaneously showing America's air wars in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, a Qatar-based war room is at the heart of America's biggest military campaigns. While it’s already something of a technological marvel, the operations center is undergoing a series of upgrades to its top-secret computer systems to transform how war planners there do business. U.S. WW2 veteran returns flag to family of fallen Japanese soldier
People release doves as a symbol of peace at the Yasukuni Shrine for the war dead in Tokyo, Japan, August 15, 2017, to mark the 72nd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Britain's most advanced and biggest warship, the 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, berthed for the first time at its home port of Portsmouth on Tuesday.
Business Target reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit and a 1.3 percent rise in comparable sales, after a year of declines, as more customers visited its stores and website. The dollar held on to big gains today before minutes of the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest meeting, while European shares followed Asian stocks higher. Breakingviews: Chinese tech titans suffer credibility GAAP Exclusive: China's Belt and Road acquisitions surge despite outbound capital crackdown
NAFTA As the United States, Canada and Mexico kick off negotiations on Wednesday to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement, the biggest uncertainty is whether a deal can pass President Trump's "America First" test. Timeline: The rocky history of NAFTA Factbox: Key issues in the NAFTA renegotiations Reuters TV: Tech lobbyists working furiously for NAFTA edge
Breakingviews According to Jason Furman, an economist who spent eight years working for the Obama administration, there is almost nothing that the Trump administration is doing right on tax, trade, immigration, infrastructure, energy or regulatory policy.
UK Britain has said there should be no border posts between Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland after Brexit, in a paper that attempts to resolve one of the most complex aspects of its exit from the European Union. Breakingviews: British wage mystery has non-British explanation
Afghanistan Afghan police discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 36 victims of a recent militant attack on a village, officials said. "Most of the victims were beheaded," provincial government spokesman Zabihullah Amani said, noting that all were men, except for three boys between the ages of eight and 15. A third mass grave had been located but it was in an area under Taliban control, and security forces were searching for more possible graves, Amani added.
Commentary Aung San Suu Kyi's poor treatment of the media in Myanmar may impede her efforts to democratize the conflict-wrought country, writes Reuters columnist Alex Lazar. But is Suu Kyi’s apparent authoritarian streak mere caution in case expanding civil liberties "too forcefully" could bait the former junta into retaking full control of the country?
Philippines Philippine police killed 32 people in dozens of anti-drug operations in a province north of the capital, Manila, in the single deadliest day of President Rodrigo Duterte's unrelenting war on drugs.
Australia Australia's main scientific agency said it believed with "unprecedented precision and certainty" that a missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft crashed into the sea northeast of an area scoured in a fruitless two-year underwater search. Australia, Malaysia and China called off a $160 million, two-year search for the plane in January after finding nothing, despite the protests of families of those onboard.
Entertainment Indian police arrested four people on suspicion of leaking an unaired episode of HBO's hit series "Game of Thrones", Mumbai police said. Daniel Craig confirms he will return as James Bond | 
