By Luciana Magalhaes and Marcela Ayres SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Brazilian investor and former banker Marcelo Kayath would be “an excellent choice” to serve as finance minister should Senator Flavio Bolsonaro win the presidency in next month’s election against leftist President Luiz In
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The capture of the Red Sea port of Mokha and a strategic island by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen brings their forces to the heart of a key choke point for the global economy: the Bab el-Mandeb Strait leading out of the Red Sea. The Houthis took Mokha on Thursday and on
DUBLIN (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking a break this weekend from the pressures of the Iran war and American voter anger over the conflict’s economic fallout by indulging in one of his favorite pastimes: golf. After observing the somber 25th anniversary on Friday of the 9/11 attacks that kill
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Every morning at 9 a.m., Ukrainians observe a nationwide minute of silence for the soldiers and civilians killed in Russia’s full-scale invasion. Established by presidential decree in March 2022, the ritual unfolds across Kyiv as traffic stops and people pause in streets, market
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian presidential candidate Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro is under a Supreme Court investigation for receiving millions of dollars from a disgraced banker to finance a movie about his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil’s top court late Thursday unsealed several documents t
By Sahana Bajracharya KATHMANDU, Sept 11 (Reuters) – When Sanjay Sah got trapped in a dark tunnel linked to a hydropower station after a devastating flood tore through the structure in Nepal, he was so scared of injuring his eyes on debris that he kept them closed for days. When a miracle rescue hap
By Robbie Corey-Boulet DAKAR, Sept 11 (Reuters) – An Egyptian man who was deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea, and who has spoken out against alleged rough treatment by security forces there, has been taken into police custody and is being held incommunicado, his lawyer said on Frid
By Jarrett Renshaw Sept 11 (Reuters) – The White House is weighing how to use the Defense Production Act to expand U.S. oil refining capacity as the conflict with Iran exposes the country’s vulnerability to global crude supply disruptions and price spikes, according to two sources familiar with the
By Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday and underscored the need to protect the freedom of navigation and commerce, and the safety and well-being of seafarers, India’s foreign ministry said. The
LAS MINAS, Cuba (AP) — Liexer De La Cruz took a deep breath as he entered a federal courtroom in Miami, where life as he knew it would end. It was Jan. 9, and he thought he was attending a routine immigration hearing — not deciding on the rest of his life in just seconds, having to choose between re
ABUJA, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s parliament has suspended official visits to South Africa and ordered lawmakers to boycott South African-hosted legislative activities, citing reports of attacks on Nigerians and other African migrants there. The decision reflects growing concern in Nigeria over t
By Pap Saine and Malick Njie BANJUL, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Gambia’s police chief has announced that no further protests will be allowed in the West African nation without permits, after authorities used tear gas earlier in the week to disperse crowds that had formed to denounce prolonged power cuts du
Sept 11 (Reuters) – U.S. health authorities on Friday declared the nation’s largest recorded multistate cyclosporiasis outbreak over, after contaminated iceberg lettuce sickened thousands, though the FDA said it is still probing how the parasite entered the food supply. The outbreak, which federal i
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen seized a key island on Friday after having captured a Red Sea port, moves that threatened to further disrupt international shipping in the region. Iran called on Saudi Arabia to end its blockade of Yemen and immediately resume talks. Separately, the AI company A
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two incidents along Ukraine’s borders with Poland and Moldova this week are a preview of potential intensified Russian provocations at Ukraine’s border crossing points with Europe, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. Two people died when Russian drones hit the Starokozache
CAIRO, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Israel’s military said on Friday it had killed a top Hamas commander in a Gaza airstrike a day earlier, as it presses ahead with a bombing campaign in the Palestinian territory despite U.S.-backed efforts to salvage a 2025 ceasefire. In a statement, Hamas’ armed wing confi
BERLIN, Sept 11 (Reuters) – German federal prosecutors have charged seven suspected Hamas members in Berlin with membership in a foreign terrorist organisation and preparing an attack, including by procuring weapons, they said on Friday. German security forces have repeatedly warned that since the H
BERLIN, Sept 11 (Reuters) – The likely leader of the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right Alternative for Germany’s Ulrich Siegmund, suggested a weapons producer could be allowed to operate in the state to provide resources for his party’s planned deportation campaigns. The AfD, whic
Sept 11 (Reuters) – A Latvian man suspected of an attempted arson attack on a drone factory in Slovakia told investigators he was hired through the Telegram messaging app and had contact with several people instructing him, including one who spoke Russian, a Slovak news website reported. Plant opera
By Ilze Filks and Terje Solsvik STOCKHOLM, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Sweden’s centre-left opposition was polling just ahead of the ruling right-wing bloc ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary election, indicating that voters may reject the government’s alliance with the far-right. Across Europe, far-right parti
MUMBAI, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Finance ministers and central bank governors of BRICS countries have called for reform of global developmental financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, seeking a stronger voice for emerging market economies. “With the growing share of
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drones targeted roadside gas stations in Kyiv for a second straight day Friday, as Moscow broadened its air war in what Ukrainian officials say is an effort to rattle civilians. Russian strikes on urban gas stations have intensified in recent months, mostly in regions ne
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A student in a high school in Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, on Friday stabbed and wounded another student and a janitor, authorities said. The attacker was detained. Croatia’s Ministry of Education said he used a “sharp object” in the attack. The student who was attacked received
NEW DELHI, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin began talks in New Delhi on Friday, their second meeting in two weeks, that is expected to focus on trade, energy and defence ties between the two countries, which have long been friends. The talk
By James Mackenzie MAGDEBURG, Germany, Sept 11 (Reuters) – After its triumph in Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany’s far-right AfD needs to attract defectors from other parties or reach an agreement with the small far-left BSW party that is setting difficult conditions in return for i
ROME (AP) — Emma Bonino, who rose to political prominence as a leader of campaigns by the Radical Party that legalized abortion and divorce in the 1970s in heavily Roman Catholic Italy, against the objections of the Vatican, has died. She was 78. Her party of recent years, +Europa, announced her dea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was acquitted Friday in a case related to a marine’s drowning death in a rare reprieve in one of the criminal cases brought against him following his ouster for imposing martial law. The independent counsel’s indictment had allege
VIENNA, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Austria’s foreign ministry said on Friday it had “encouraging news” about an Austrian woman in her 70s taken hostage in 2025 in Niger, where she had lived for years, but it cautioned that the process of releasing her was not yet complete. The woman, identified by Austrian
BEIJING, Sept 11 (Reuters) – China and India are arranging for a bilateral meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, China’s foreign ministry said on Friday, as Xi is set to travel to India this weekend to attend a BRICS summit. China is willing to approac
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden is holding an election on Sunday that will determine whether a conservative leader remains in charge and a hard-right party wins ministerial jobs for the first time, or whether the center-left returns to power. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is seeking a second four-year term
