(AP) – The United States military is rejecting Iran’s latest claim of an attack in the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, calling the allegation a “total lie” and accusing Tehran of spreading misinformation during a period of heightened regional tension. Iranian state media reported that the coun
SEOUL, Sept 7 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country’s newest destroyer would be part of a nuclear response system and could deliver “annihilating retaliatory strikes”, state media KCNA reported on Monday, although it did not say whether the vessel would carry nuclear weapons.
BERLIN, Sept 6 (Reuters) – The far-right Alternative for Germany scored a historic victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, exit polls showed on Sunday, dealing a blow to Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives, but it was unclear whether the result would be enough to govern. The AfD won 44.
MINAB, Iran (AP) — This will never be a school again. Its bright blue gate is still painted with the symbols that once welcomed children: Iran’s map, oversized pencils and portraits of legends in science and literature. But now, the walkway beyond it guides visitors past rows of photographs. They sh
By Alexander Cornwell TEL AVIV, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered unauthorized settler outposts in the West Bank to be dismantled, two people familiar with the matter said on Sunday, amid pressure from the U.S. to crack down on settler attacks on Palestinians.
CAIRO, Sept 6 (Reuters) – An Israeli strike killed a man and his 8-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said. Mohamed Abu Selmia, head of Al Shifa Hospital, the enclave’s largest medical facility, said the airstrike hit a vehicle in western Gaza City, killing Youssef Akila
NEW DELHI (AP) — A building collapsed in New Delhi on Sunday, killing at least one person and trapping dozens of others, officials said. The five-story building, which housed a boys’ hostel, collapsed in Satya Niketan, a densely populated neighborhood known for its private student accommodations nea
By Adnan Abidi BETRAWATI, Nepal, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Believing she had perished in Nepal’s deadly floods, the family of Chandika Kumari Shrestha started the ritual of mourning the elderly woman’s death. Ten days later, rescuers found her alive inside her collapsed home in the devastated Betrawati vil
By Samia Nakhoul ISTANBUL, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Six months after a conflict that rattled markets and pushed the Gulf to the brink of a wider war, the tide may be turning against Iran as Washington unleashes an unprecedented economic offensive to achieve what military force could not. After years of su
LISBON, Sept 6 (Reuters) – At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren and teenagers, were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine on Fogo, one of Cape Verde’s islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa, national news agency Inforpress reported on Sunday. The crash occurred on a
DUBAI, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Iran said it will step up efforts to tackle problems created by U.S. sanctions that are crippling its economy, while a senior Iranian official warned of a “painful response” if it comes under further attack. Six months after U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran launched the war, th
MOSCOW, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday that the accusations levelled at Moscow by the West that it was involved in the drone incident at Germany’s Leipzig airport were, “by and large, the start of a real war,” state news agency TASS reported. “All these stat
The U.S. military has denied Iran ’s claim to have struck an unmanned American military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, calling it a “total lie.” Meanwhile, Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed four people and leveled a hospital, according to Lebanese authorities, near an area that has become
By Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ruled out snap elections on Sunday a day after announcing a string of tax cuts and wage hikes, as he seeks to recover lost ground in opinion polls ahead of a general election due next year. His centre-right gov
By Max Hunder and Anna Voitenko KYIV, Sept 6 (Reuters) – U.S. peace envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Sunday as the Trump administration renewed its push to end Russia’s four-and-a-half-year war in Ukraine. Kushner and Witkoff travelle
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held “encouraging” talks in Kyiv on Sunday in their first official visit to Ukraine, but made no breakthrough toward ending Russia’s full-scale invasion. The Trump administration’s push to end the fighting has lost momentum, with the f
MOSCOW, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Sunday that Moscow has not ruled out a trilateral meeting between the presidents of Russia, the U.S. and China, state news agency TASS reported. However, before moving on to the actual preparations, it is necessary to
BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from a mudslide in eastern China rose to three on Sunday after days of torrential rain brought by Typhoon Saudel. Nine others were still missing. The mudslide hit part of a village in Suichuan County in Jiangxi province early Saturday, damaging a dozen houses. Rescuers
HONG KONG (AP) — After days of waiting anxiously, Lu Haitao’s family could finally breathe a sigh of relief when the Chinese man was rescued from a tunnel in Nepal where devastating floods killed more than 1,300 people. Rescuers carried out Lu from a 225-meter (740-foot) hydropower tunnel and evacua
By Nicoco Chan and Tingshu Wang GYIRONG, China, Sept 6 (Reuters) – About 20 Chinese rescue workers in bright orange operated excavators, shovels and ground-penetrating radar detectors on Sunday in an effort to find hundreds of people missing since a tsunami-like mudslide destroyed China’s main borde
BERLIN, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Germany is planning a broad package of measures to strengthen its defences against drone attacks, cyber intrusions and other forms of Russian sabotage following a failed airport drone attack last month, Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday. • Interior Minister Alex
Sept 6 (Reuters) – The Israeli military said it was striking southern Lebanon early on Sunday in retaliation for Hezbollah firing two drones at Israeli soldiers stationed in a part of the region it has declared a security zone. The Israeli military had issued an evacuation warning to areas near a bu
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A volcano erupted in Indonesia early Sunday, prompting the cancellation of all flights at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and disrupting other domestic airports as ash drifted across western parts of the country. The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau, located
BEIJING (AP) — A mudslide killed two people and left 10 missing in eastern China, damaging a dozen houses following days of torrential rain brought by Typhoon Saudel, state media said Sunday. The mudslide hit part of a village in Suichuan County in Jiangxi province early Saturday, prompting rescuers
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A television game show in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a U.S.-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents’ mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom. Meanwhile, a 15-year-old Ca
Gilad Erdan Withdraws Unity Party From Upcoming Election By The Media Line Staff Gilad Erdan’s Unity Party will not run in Israel’s upcoming election after its support failed to provide a strong likelihood of crossing the electoral threshold and efforts to join forces with other parties did not succ
Moumen Al-Natour Escapes Gaza: ‘Hamas Made This War,’ Seeks Peace with Israel Al-Natour aims for a meeting with President Trump, says Gazan civil society is not Hamas, wants a political role, and calls for schoolbook reform to counter radicalization By Felice Friedson / The Media Line The path out o
They Fought ISIS. Now Kurdish Women Fighters Are Searching for a Place in Syria’s New Order YPJ members fear that integration plans will absorb male SDF fighters while excluding women from Syria’s new military By Rizik Alabi / The Media Line [DAMASCUS] More than 1,500 fighters from the Kurdish Women
Huckabee Calls Settler Attacks ‘Acts of Terror’ During West Bank Visit By The Media Line Staff US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya in the West Bank on Saturday, condemning violence by Israeli settlers against residents and describing attacks on people
(Corrects to add media identifier; no change to story text) JAKARTA, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Soekarno-Hatta international airport suspended flight operations until 9:30 a.m. (0230 GMT) on Sunday due to volcanic ash from the ongoing eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau, Jakarta’s main airport poste
