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
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — As the United States ratchets up the pressure on the International Criminal Court, sanctioning two more high-ranking staff members in recent weeks, a small but growing number of the global tribunal’s member states have announced they will quit the institution. The recen
By Gwladys Fouche OSLO, Sept 11 (Reuters) – New Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella should fully implement the peace accord signed with Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas a decade ago to help unite a divided country, his predecessor Juan Manuel Santos said. Santos – wh
By Dan Peleschuk and Thomas Peter KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine, Sept 11 (Reuters) – In a cramped workshop near the front line in northeastern Ukraine, military mechanic “Chimera” is helping prepare his unit’s robot forces for battle. Lined up in a row, the four-wheeled unmanned vehicles known as “Hyenas”
By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA, Sept 11 (Reuters) – A police complaint has been filed by 60 parents of children who fell ill after consuming free meals funded by the Indonesian government, a mother representing the complainants said on Friday, the first legal challenge to President Prabowo Subianto’s fla
SEOUL, Sept 11 (Reuters) – South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday he would host the first South Korea-Central Asia summit next week, bringing together the leaders of five Central Asian countries as Seoul seeks to deepen economic and strategic ties with the resource-rich region. “Through
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Rescuers were hampered by the smoky, charred condition of a ferry drifting in Philippine waters Friday after a fire onboard that left 84 people missing and killed at least five. Smoke still drifted from the listing, heavily damaged ferry, which appeared to have drifted clo
Sept 10 (Reuters) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called U.S. President Donald Trump twice on Thursday and urged him to launch strikes against the Houthis, Axios reported, citing two U.S. officials. Trump rejected the request, and U.S. officials said the administration does not intend to ta
NEW DELHI (AP) — Bad traffic is a fact of life in New Delhi, but it’s often at its worst when foreign dignitaries come to town. As India’s capital prepares to host a summit of the BRICS grouping of countries this weekend, parts of one of the world’s busiest urban centers have been turned into tightl
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The leader of Myanmar’s military-backed government was in Cambodia on Friday to meet with its leaders in his latest effort to normalize relations with other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, as critics warn the visit could weaken the bloc’s collective
Sept 11 (Reuters) – Russian diplomats in Taiwan last week screened a film on Japanese “militarism” and World War Two, causing concern in Taiwan’s government which thinks Russia is helping China push its narrative of a rising Japanese military threat and sow discord over Taipei’s relations with Tokyo
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Malaysia’s king on Friday postponed a decision on a new clemency bid by former premier Najib Razak over his conviction in a case linked to a multi-billion-dollar financial scandal. King Sultan Ibrahim, who chaired a pardons board meeting on Friday, pardoned 65 inmat
Al-Qaida’s Afghan Presence Persists 25 Years After 9/11 UN monitoring findings point to continued al-Qaida activity, TTP support, and AQIS networks under Taliban rule By Arshad Mehmood / The Media Line [ISLAMABAD] Twenty-five years after 9/11, the United States killed Osama bin Laden, decimated al-Q
Houthis Take Mokha as Government Forces Withdraw From Red Sea Port By The Media Line Staff Iran-backed Houthi forces took control of the strategic Yemeni port city of Mokha on Thursday after government-aligned troops withdrew, three anti-Houthi Yemeni government officials told Reuters, extending Hou
Sa’ar Rules Out Forced Gaza Expulsions as Katz, Ben-Gvir Back Migration Plans By The Media Line Staff Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Israel has no plans to forcibly remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and would allow residents to leave only voluntarily if another country agreed to re
By Brenda Goh, Ju-min Park and Eduardo Baptista SEOUL/BEIJING, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Coffee bars. Waterparks. Retail therapy. North Korea — a country few would associate with leisure or pleasure — is experiencing an unlikely outbreak of fun. Leader Kim Jong Un, himself no stranger to indulgence, is or
Sept 10 (Reuters) – A Texas judge ruled on Thursday that TikTok violated the state’s consumer protection law by misleading users about how it filtered content for minors and whether its “Restricted Mode” feature shielded children from inappropriate material. • Texas sued TikTok in January 2025, alle
By Renju Jose SYDNEY, Sept 11 (Reuters) – A shortage of air traffic controllers caused flight cancellations and delays at Sydney Airport on Friday morning, the federal agency responsible for managing Australia’s air traffic said, as probes continue into several recent near-misses at the airport. Air
Sept 11 (Reuters) – Russian air strikes injured two and caused a fire in a nine-storey apartment building in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Friday morning, the city authorities said on Telegram, after they asked people to seek shelter amid a drone alert. Separately, Ukrainian drones damaged civili
By Richa Naidu and Aditya Kalra LONDON/NEW DELHI, Sept 11 (Reuters) – India’s proposal to put health warning labels on some food products has sparked a nationwide debate over how the country came to rely on cheap packaged food while companies sold more nutritious versions of the same brands in other
BRASILIA, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday he believes it is necessary to discuss term limits for Supreme Court justices. • The remarks come amid a clash between top court justices that has triggered the court’s biggest crisis in decades. • Lula, who
By Kenrick Cai and Stephen Nellis CUPERTINO, California, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Apple’s new foldable iPhone launched on Wednesday with impressive features and a premium price tag, starting at $1,999 in the U.S. market. But some observers in the packed room at the launch event in Cupertino, California,
By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday the Trump administration will sanction a large bank next week as it continues to apply economic pressure on Tehran to end a more than six-month U.S. conflict with Iran. He named neither the financia
GENEVA (AP) — A Dutch tour bus overturned in eastern Switzerland in a serious accident that left several people dead and others injured, police said. The bus overturned between the villages of Susch and Zernez in the Alpine canton of Graubuenden, and rescue teams were responding to the scene, author
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Trump administration has designated 21 Latin American and Caribbean criminal groups as “foreign terrorist organizations,” with the latest an Ecuadorian group added to the list on Wednesday. The announcement came during the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Colombi
MOSCOW, Sept 10 (Reuters) – One person was killed and seven were wounded in Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia’s border Belgorod region, regional authorities said on Thursday. One man was killed when a drone detonated at an unnamed facility in the town of Novy Oskol, east of the town of Belgorod. Fiv
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. prosecutor who has been overseeing a wide-ranging probe into past investigations of President Donald Trump told Reuters on Thursday that he has resigned. Joseph diGenova’s departure injects uncertainty into an investigation that has been scr
Sept 10 (Reuters) – The Israeli military destroyed Hezbollah underground infrastructure at the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday, adding that the operation completed the consolidation of a security zone in the
Sept 10 (Reuters) – Anthropic on Thursday said it had disrupted several allegedly malicious uses of its Claude models over the past eight months, including a suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage campaign and efforts by Chinese AI firms it accused of trying to extract and replicate Claude’s capabi
