DUBAI, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Algeria has decided to sever diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates after what it described as the exhaustion of all means to preserve bilateral ties, the Algerian state TV said on Thursday. While the reason for the move was not immediately clear, Algerian medi
By Mohamed Ezz and Amr Abdallah CAIRO, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A plan to expand a recycling scheme might seem an unlikely source of controversy in Cairo, where waste often accumulates in alleys, canals and vacant lots. But it became one late last month, when two machines that offer phone credit in excha
NEW DELHI, Sept 10 (Reuters) – India will host the BRICS Leaders’ Summit this weekend, seeking to lift the bloc’s global profile even as the U.S.-led war on Iran splits its membership, with Tehran and Abu Dhabi on opposing sides of the conflict. The September 12-13 summit in New Delhi comes more tha
By Ricardo Brito and Brendan O’Boyle BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Thousands of Brazilians rallied in Sao Paulo on Monday to boost right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, just weeks before the country’s October 4 election. But the presidential hopeful may not have been the most
MOSCOW, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Yuri decided to stick shatter-resistant film onto the windows of his Moscow home in August after a drone blast blew shards of glass into his friend’s apartment, causing minor injuries to those inside. “These are unsettled times for us right now and I decided to protect my
HONG KONG (AP) — China’s passenger car exports in the first eight months of this year already surpassed last year’s total, an industry association said Thursday, though domestic sales continued to decline. Passenger car exports in August jumped 67.1% from the year before to around 890,000 units, dri
By Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM, Sept 10-(Reuters) – Swedes will vote on Sunday in a tight election that has effectively become a referendum on whether the far-right Sweden Democrats should join the government and cement their journey from pariahs to trusted partners in a country once seen as one of Euro
Sept 10 (Reuters) – Sweden will hold a parliamentary election on September 13 with the centre-left opposition holding a slim lead in opinion polls over Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s ruling right-wing bloc. WHAT’S AT STAKE? Kristersson is seeking to form a majority government with his existing par
HANOI, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Vietnamese ride-hailing drivers working for Singapore’s Grab have used social media to call on colleagues to boycott the app this weekend, saying a rise in service charges has cut their income to unsustainably low levels. Drivers have been sharing screenshots showing their
COPENHAGEN, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Iceland’s government will submit a bill in February to ban whaling, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the only two countries in the world to continue commercial whaling. Whaling in Iceland has sparked years of protests from animal welfare campaigners and Hol
An Israeli strike killed at least four people in northern Gaza, including two children. And a media outlet controlled by Iran-backed Houthi rebels claims Saudi-backed forces have launched airstrikes on several areas. Here’s a look at the latest news in the Middle East. Full coverage can be found her
By Saurabh Sharma, Sarita Chaganti Singh and Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Flood-hit Nepal will ask wealthier countries and global agencies for financial help this week, arguing they should contribute to the $5 billion needed for initial rebuilding as the disaster shows how climate chan
CAIRO, Sept 10 (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike killed a man, his wife, and their two daughters, aged 8 and 12, in a house in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said, as the Israeli military escalated the bombardment of houses over the past two days. The Israeli military didn’t im
By Nandita Bose, Steve Holland and Nathan Layne DALLAS, Sept 10 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump capped the first day of his Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention by proposing to pay every U.S. adult a $5,000 “Trump dividend” if his party wins November’s congressional elections. Trump d
Sept 10 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said support for Ukraine’s air defences and winter preparation would be the main focus of his visit in Canada, as he arrived in the country. Zelenskiy added that “important meetings and agreements” were planned for the visit, during which he would me
By Joyce Zhou HONG KONG, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A Hong Kong court convicted Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, on Thursday of attempting to block a former reporter from becoming the head of a press union, but cleared it of unlawfully firing her. Journalist Selina Cheng said she was fi
By Gabriel Stargardter PARIS, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. grant program for organisations pursuing Trump administration priorities in Europe will exclude French groups because of sensitivities over allegations of foreign interference ahead of next year’s presidential election, according to two source
MOSCOW, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A woman was killed and two people wounded after drone debris fell fallen on a house in the town of Borisoglebsk in Russia’s Voronezh region, regional governor Alexander Gusev said on Thursday. Air defence systems had destroyed 19 drones over the region, Gusev wrote on t
By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – When Donald Trump campaigned for a second term in the White House, he promised to be a “president of peace” who would stop foreign wars, not start them. Now, a quarter-century after the September 11, 2001, attacks that triggered America’s global “wa
Sept 10 (Reuters) – Saudi civil defence authorities issued an all-clear on Thursday following an emergency alert declared in the southwestern province of Khamis Mushait for the fourth time in 24 hours, as clashes flared with Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis. The danger had passed, the civil defence offic
SINGAPORE, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Vessel transits at the Strait of Hormuz fell slightly on Wednesday to seven, compared with the previous day’s 12, preliminary shiptracking data showed on Thursday, with levels also lower than the 10-day average of 14. Out of these seven, four vessels exited and three e
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A fire burned overnight on a passenger ferry off the western Philippines, leaving dozens of people missing Thursday and killing at least five. So far, 43 people have been rescued, coast guard spokeswoman Commodore Noemie Cayabyab said. The ferry MV June Aster was afloat bu
Sept 10 (Reuters) – Sea drones injured eight people in Russia’s popular Black Sea resort of Sochi late on Wednesday, authorities of the surrounding Krasnodar region said on the Telegram messaging app. Beach infrastructure at Sochi was partially damaged, the post said. Russian President Vladimir Puti
By Shivangi Acharya, Sarita Chaganti Singh and Mei Mei Chu NEW DELHI/BEIJING, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping’s much-anticipated visit to New Delhi this week, his first to India in seven years, should further the diplomatic thaw between the giant neighbours, but there are few signs
By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh DALLAS/WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States may hit Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, urging Tehran to be cautious. “We notice there’s a little activity at Pickaxe. I would advise Iran not to get cute because we will ha
Sept 9 (Reuters) – Multiple American military aircraft suffered damage in strikes overnight on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, CBS reporter Jennifer Jacobs said on Wednesday on X. One A-10 Thunderbolt, known as the Warthog, was struck and left with a missing wing, while roughly eight F-15s su
MANILA, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Five people died and more than 80 are missing after a ferry caught fire off Palawan island in the western Philippines on Wednesday night, the Philippine Coast Guard said on Thursday. Forty-three people were rescued on Wednesday night after the fire broke out aboard the MV
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Wednesday three people were killed in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, the latest in a series of attacks that Washington says target “narco-terrorists” but human rights groups condemn as extrajudicial killings. D
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The prediction that this season’s El Nino phenomenon will be stronger than normal has alarmed the Ecuadorian scientific community, which has warned of its impact on the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands, home to the highest concentration of species not found elsewhere on
Sept 9 (Reuters) – The photos tell a story of lives, interrupted. The schoolroom, gaily decorated with paintings and letters. The paint shop, where the shelves still contain rows of once colourful cans. The bathroom, the closet that held neatly piled clothing, the yards. All are now covered with a t
