THE HAGUE, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Nicaragua told the International Court of Justice on Tuesday that Germany’s arms exports to Israel violates the 1948 Genocide Convention and humanitarian law and urged the court to allow its case against Berlin to continue. Germany suspended weapons exports to Israel fo
By Maria Martinez BERLIN, Sept 8 (Reuters) – The far-right’s historic election victory in a German state election has reopened divisions in Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government, with calls by his Social Democrat coalition partners for planned economic and social reforms to be softened. The Alterna
LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Britain on Tuesday published legislation to introduce tougher sanctions on Iran, expanding trade restrictions and powers to target ships as part of what it described as wider effort to curb Tehran’s nuclear programme and other hostile activities. The government said the me
BRUSSELS (AP) — The stunning victory of the Alternative for Germany in a state election has renewed fears of an ascendant far right in Europe, as voters repeatedly vent discontent and mainstream leaders grapple with myriad crises, from affordability to Russian aggression and scraps with China and th
By Yury Garcia and Alexandra Valencia GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador/QUITO, Sept 8 (Reuters) – For one grandmother, it was when bullets began hitting the rooftops of her neighborhood that she decided she would have to leave the housing development where she had lived for nearly 20 years. A sharp rise in fightin
By Tim Reid WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and his Republican Party are taking the unusual step of staging a national Republican convention ahead of November’s midterm elections, gambling that a high-profile show of party unity can energize supporters and help Republicans defy
LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are surprised by a letter sent on behalf of King Charles clarifying that they were no longer working members of the royal family and that they would remain private citizens, their spokesperson said. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their
By Michel Rose PARIS, Sept 8 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron has urged the European Commission to back a European Union-wide ban on social media for children under 15 after France failed to enact its own legislation, his office said on Tuesday. In a letter to European Commission Preside
By Inti Landauro PARIS, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Thieves stole three paintings from the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera early on Tuesday, the local mayor said. The raiders broke into the museum a little before 6 a.m. and took four paintings, Cagnes-sur-Mer mayor Bryan Masson said on his Facebook page.
KATHMANDU, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Rescuers in Nepal are focusing on three hydropower project tunnels where they believe dozens of workers could be trapped, authorities said on Tuesday, two weeks after a devastating flood killed hundreds and left thousands missing in the Himalayan country and in neighbou
BRUSSELS, Sept 8 (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday that the images of the large turnout for the funeral of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic were “shocking”, and added they could undermine Serbia’s plans for accession to the EU. “The images from Ratko M
(Changes media identifier to align text with visuals) By Juliette Jabkhiro and Layli Foroudi PARIS, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Fourteen men face trial in Paris on Tuesday on smuggling charges related to the drowning of more than 30 people in the Channel five years ago, the worst disaster on record involving
LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Britain will announce a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank later on Tuesday, confirmed a senior minister, as part of the UK’s efforts to support a two-state solution. Six weeks into his new job, foreign minister Ed Miliband flagged las
By Uditha Jayasinghe YALA, Sri Lanka, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Mugger crocodiles bask along the edge of the shrinking reservoir, waiting like everything else in Sri Lanka’s drought-hit Yala National Park for the green tankers that come every day to pump in water. From next week, park managers will be taki
COPENHAGEN, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Iceland summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday after President Donald Trump posted an image on social media showing the island and other countries covered by the American flag, local broadcaster RUV said. The map showed the United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Me
BRUSSELS (AP) — A quarter of a century after the Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States, jihadist groups still pose a major threat to security in Europe, but a new menace has surfaced that is driven mostly by young people online and the authorities are worried. The exact size of the network behind wh
CEIBAS, Argentina (AP) — Thirty years ago this Monday, Argentina was left stunned when a tour bus carrying a beloved cumbia singer, known by her stage name Gilda, collided with a truck. Miriam Alejandra Bianchi died at age 34, but she lives on in legend as a miracle-working folk saint. At a chapel n
DUBAI, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Operations at some energy facilities in Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, were halted on Tuesday following attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis that wounded 73 people, in what Saudi authorities described as a dangerous escalation. Fires erupted at the sites and
MANILA, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Boxing great Manny Pacquiao spent decades throwing punches in the boxing ring. From Tuesday, the Filipino sports icon will direct his fight at a more enduring opponent: poverty. Pacquiao joined President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s cabinet on Tuesday as head of the government’s
BANDAR ABBAS, Iran (AP) — In the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz, a waterfront once busy with boats, trucks and workers has fallen quiet. It’s a front line of the economic pain that the United States now hopes to intensify after six months of war. The Associated Press visit
NEW DELHI (AP) — The flash floods two weeks ago swallowed settlements and swept away roads and bridges in Nepal’s mountains and river valleys. Roughly 7,500 homes were destroyed, another 20,000 need rebuilding and at least 12 hydropower projects were damaged. The damage estimate so far of $2.56 bill
By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila DAKAR, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo plans to tighten control over geological data that guides billions of dollars in mining exploration, potentially extending state influence over the development of future mineral discoveries. The country is accelerati
SINGAPORE, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Tuesday his government has accepted an independent committee’s recommendations for a sharp increase in ministerial salaries, which are already the highest in the world. Singapore pays its political leaders high salaries t
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Sept 8 (Reuters) – India is witnessing an unprecedented food safety crackdown, with regulators forcing many local eateries and branded restaurants to suspend operations, while a push for front-of-pack warning labels has rattled the country’s more than $100 billion packaged
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The U.S. Southern Command on Monday sank another Ecuadorian vessel that the U.S. alleged was linked to the criminal group Los Choneros. It was the latest action by the U.S. against boats and vessels in Latin America that it said were involved in drug trafficking. The joint task
By Stefica Nicol Bikes CLARENCE TOWN, Australia, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Australian firefighters say they are on alert as temperatures in the southern hemisphere begin to pick up, following a devastating fire season in Europe. Australia is already experiencing a strong El Nino weather event that typicall
Sept 8 (Reuters) – Russia resumed airstrikes on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early on Tuesday, shortly after the departure of U.S. peace negotiators, attacking the city with ballistic missiles and injuring six people, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. People were also trapped in a residential building a
SINGAPORE, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz slowed at the start of this week, after Iran threatened on Monday to retaliate for any new U.S. attacks. The number of commodity vessels sailing through the Strait of Hormuz totalled seven on Monday, compared with eight on t
Sept 8 (Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry wants to claim back part of a one-off payout from contract service personnel found guilty of criminal offences at home, a document showed, amid increasing cases of domestic violence among those fighting Russia’s war on Ukraine. Russia provides a minimum o
By Enas Alashray CAIRO, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Iran threatened the United States with “economic warfare” on Tuesday and said it had fired an advanced missile at U.S. warships, underscoring the risks of further escalation in the war only days after both sides traded blows again. The six-month-old war has
