BUENOS AIRES, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Argentine President Javier Milei said on Thursday he would tighten sanctions on companies involved in oil projects around the Falkland Islands, boost defense resources in the country’s south and send Congress a bill aimed at strengthening Argentina’s response to what
By Steve Gorman Sept 3 (Reuters) – The Republican nominee for a Missouri statehouse seat has been charged in federal court with conspiracy to distribute narcotics, accused of plotting to plant drugs on his primary election rival in the final months of the race. Thomas Christopher Ross, 37, who won t
By Saurabh Sharma, Devjyot Ghoshal, Sarita Chaganti Singh and Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, Sept 4 (Reuters) – An army of experts in a WhatsApp group is guiding rescue workers scouring a Nepali valley after a huge flash flood more than a week ago as they desperately search for anyone who may be alive insi
By Nilo Tabrizy, Edward Carron, Idrees Ali and George Sargent Sept 4 (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President JD Vance said that the United States was investigating a deadly strike on an Iranian wedding earlier this week that an analysis published by Reuters showed likely resulted from a direct hit by a U.S.
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – The current and former presidents of the International Criminal Court’s governing body said efforts to isolate the institution diplomatically are aimed at eroding confidence in the international legal order as President Donald Trump’s administration h
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government and the country’s exporters of meat, poultry, eggs, honey and other animal products scrambled Thursday after a European Union deadline expired, triggering a suspension of imports over concerns about the use of antibiotics and antimicrobial drugs in livestock. Pre
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump raised doubts about whether the United States would support Britain in another conflict over the Falkland Islands in an interview with a British broadcaster aired Thursday, injecting new tension into the long-standing dispute over the Britis
SAO PAULO, Sept 3 (Reuters) – The lead of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over Senator Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of the October election has narrowed, a Datafolha poll showed on Thursday, following a similar trend seen in other polls. Lula is seen with 46% of the vote in a potential runof
By Sarah Morland Sept 3 (Reuters) – Haiti’s foreign minister urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to renew the mandate of an international force supporting the country’s police, saying stronger backing is needed if Haiti is to hold its first election in a decade amid widespread gang violence.
SEOUL, Sept 4 (Reuters) – South Korea is preparing to deploy military assets to support freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and aims to dispatch them before the end of the year, media reported late on Thursday, citing government and military sources. The reports in several South Korean med
Sept 3 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that an investigation would determine what caused a dispute between two of Ukraine’s security agencies to escalate into a shootout in Kyiv this week that left three members of the Defence Ministry’s HUR Military Intelligence Directora
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen’s board of directors on Thursday approved a sweeping cost-cutting plan that would cut 50,000 jobs, slim the company’s model line by half and end auto production at four German plants. The plan put forward by CEO Oliver Blume to counter low-cost competition in Chi
KOROR, Palau (AP) — Leaders of Pacific nations agreed at their annual regional summit to register collective “concern” about China’s launch of a ballistic missile into their waters, they said Thursday, but failed to reach unanimous agreement on the statement and stopped short of a sterner rebuke of
TUNIS, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Tunisia’s Cassation Court on Thursday upheld prison sentences of up to 45 years imposed on opposition leaders, lawyers and businessmen on charges of conspiracy, their lawyers and families told Reuters. The opposition said the ruling, which is the final stage of the three-ye
Sept 3 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian strike on Thursday killed four people, including two medical personnel, in an attack on Russia’s border region of Belgorod, officials said. The region’s official headquarters, posting on Telegram, said the dead in Shebekino, just across the border from Ukraine, include
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – An immigration officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota during a deportation surge last winter, according to a source familiar w
Ten research teams were honored Thursday at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the U.S. for the first time due to travel concerns. Researchers who studied milk from cockroaches and analyzed soil health using underwear received Ig Nobel prizes celebrating unusual and imaginat
By Joey Roulette and Tim Hepher WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – The Trump administration pressured U.S. space companies not to attend a high-profile space summit in Paris organized by French President Emmanuel Macron, triggering a last-minute reshuffle and the cancellation of some announcements, acco
WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said the United States is investigating an airstrike that Iran says struck a wedding party in Iran. “We’re investigating it because obviously we care. We want to know,” Vance told reporters during a White House press briefing. “
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Senate Wednesday night approved a landmark bill to regulate the exploration of critical and strategic minerals in the South American country, a step toward increased exploitation of its vast reserves of rare earths that are second only to China. The Senate’s backing of
BELGRADE, Sept 3 (Reuters) – A Serbian government plane brought the body of former army commander Ratko Mladic, who died last week serving a life sentence for war crimes, back to Belgrade on Thursday for what is expected to be a huge funeral. Mladic, who was convicted of genocide, crimes against hum
Sept 3 (Reuters) – A Russian court on Thursday imposed a measure known as a ban on certain actions on children’s hospice founder Lida Moniava, who is charged with deliberately spreading false information about the actions of Russian armed forces against Ukrainian civilians. The Simonovsky District C
Sept 3 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that U.S. negotiators trying to broker a possible solution to the 4 1/2 year-old war with Russia were due to visit both Ukraine and Russia soon. “There are preliminary dates. We expect to see representatives of the U.S. pres
Sept 3 (Reuters) – A Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday injured 10 people, triggered a fire and badly damaged a high-rise residential building, officials said. The city’s military administration initially said one person had died in the latest assault, but later said the report
Sept 3 (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday slapped new sanctions on five Cuban companies and the grandson of 95-year-old revolutionary leader Raul Castro, as the Trump administration mounts economic pressure on the Communist-run Caribbean island. The U.S. State Department said it was sanctioni
PARIS (AP) — France recorded its hottest summer since measurements began more than a century ago, the environment minister said on Thursday. Firefighters relentlessly tackled wildfires throughout the summer, even in normally cooler and wetter regions in the north and Brittany, as France experienced
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — At least five people have died and dozens more are feared dead after a boat carrying West African migrants was found drifting in the Atlantic. Forty-four people were brought to safety in the Canary Islands. Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said Thursday that one of its planes
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to block federal aid for universities that boycott Israel, the latest Republican-backed pro-Israel measure amid growing Democratic criticism of the Israeli government over the war in
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — More than six decades after South African apartheid police opened fire on an unarmed crowd protesting pass laws in Sharpeville, a township south of Johannesburg, survivors and relatives of the victims announced on Thursday they would launch a class-action lawsuit against the gove
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A pregnant woman in a black dress stood at the head of her 21-year-old husband’s casket Tuesday in Kyiv, mourning the man she met when they were both soldiers fighting Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country. Yeva Smyrnova and Danyil Smyrnov both joined the army in 2023, a
