MEXICO CITY, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Mexican soldiers killed a suspected leader of the Los Reyes cartel in western Mexico, the defense ministry said on Tuesday, as Mexico continues to escalate its war against cartels and organized crime. The U.S. had offered a $3 million reward for information leading to
Sept 1 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s National Assembly on Tuesday approved an increase in the number of committee members who will select the new justices on the country’s highest court, part of ongoing talks between the government and the opposition to reform Venezuela’s political system ahead of future
By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Sept 1 (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog has resolved its outstanding questions in an investigation into secret nuclear activities in Syria under the Assad family’s rule but made no progress in Iran, it said on Tuesday in confidential reports seen by Reuters. One of th
MOSCOW, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping may hold a trilateral meeting at the next summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Asked on state TV about the
Sept 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the latest U.S. attack on Iran was “justified,” and threatened bigger strikes if Tehran retaliated. Trump, in a Truth Social post, said the U.S. military was striking Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday in retaliati
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey is planning to expand its nuclear cooperation with Russia to build more power plants, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday. The signal of deepening ties with Russia is likely to raise concerns among Western allies, who have been worried by Ankara’s closeness to Moscow a
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s sweltering summer of successive heatwaves was the hottest on record, the national weather service said Tuesday. The season, marked by extreme heat, little rainfall, destructive wildfires, and water restrictions, snapped the record set only a year earlier, the Met Office said,
WICKLOW, Ireland, Sept 1 (Reuters) – A significant number of European Union member states support bringing forward the disbursement of funds under an EU loan to Ukraine to help its war effort, Ireland’s defence minister said on Tuesday after hosting a meeting of EU colleagues. Ukraine relies heavily
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Six Jehovah’s Witnesses have been convicted of “extremist” activity in Russia after being entrapped by an informant of the FSB security service who posed as a bereaved woman seeking comfort in religion, a spokesperson for the faith group said on Tuesday.
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema was inaugurated Tuesday to begin his second term after a disputed election that saw some opposition leaders arrested and the country’s courts closed for legal appeals to the election outcomes. Hichilema was sworn-in at an event at the Nation
LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Britain will set out a “comprehensive” package of measures on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in the coming weeks, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said on Tuesday. Miliband told lawmakers that Israel’s E1 settlement project would cut across land which the Pales
By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW, Sept 1 (Reuters) – The Russian economy runs a risk of going “berserk” if it is run to focus entirely on the needs of the military-industrial complex, President Vladimir Putin’s international development envoy was quoted as saying on Tuesday. The comments by Boris Titov to bu
By Rick Noack ISLAMABAD, Sept 1 (Reuters) – The Himalayan region faces severe risks from future glacial floods, a senior U.N. official has warned, as the death toll from last week’s flood in Nepal, triggered by a glacier’s collapse, surpassed 1,000. Not only is the hydroelectric power that many depe
By David Shepardson and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) – A whistleblower told Congress that the U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with plans to restrict mail-in voting that could result in thousands of legitimate ballots being discarded. Senator Richard Blumenthal asked U.S. Post
WARSAW, Sept 1 (Reuters) – A fire at a Polish drone factory was likely caused by sabotage, Poland’s interior minister said on Tuesday. • A fire broke out at a building in a production facility in Skarzysko-Kamienna belonging to Polish drone-maker WB Electronics early on Monday. • WB Electronics dron
BERLIN, Sept 1 (Reuters) – German police are investigating an incident involving an unexploded incendiary device on Tuesday at a power substation in the eastern state of Brandenburg, a spokesperson said. Grid operator 50Hertz said “as yet unidentified perpetrators are believed to have caused damage
OSLO, Norway (AP) — King Haakon VIII pledged an oath of allegiance to Norway’s constitution in parliament on Tuesday, an important symbolic step as he takes over at the helm of the Scandinavian country after his late father’s 35-year reign. Haakon became Norway’s monarch when King Harald V died on F
NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescue crews in Nepal are racing against time to find hundreds of missing workers who are feared trapped inside hydropower tunnels damaged by flooding that has killed more than 1,000 people across Nepal and China. At least 900 workers are missing from hydropower projects, with about
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Andy Burnham will face lawmakers in the House of Commons on Tuesday for the first time since becoming U.K. leader six weeks ago, with wars in Europe and the Middle East weighing on his promise to kick-start the economy and ease the cost of living. Since taking office on
PARIS (AP) — With the end of France’s summer vacation season, the election campaign to replace Emmanuel Macron as president next May is bursting to life. An unusually large and broad field of candidates is forming to lead the European Union’s largest country, its second-largest economy and only nucl
KOROR, Palau (AP) — China warned of “consequences” for Taiwan after officials from Beijing and Taipei attended a ceremonial event at a Pacific leaders summit, where major powers already had been urged to restrain from turning a meeting of mostly small island countries into a geopolitical sideshow. T
By Gopal Sharma and Sudarshan Varadhan KATHMANDU/SINGAPORE, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Deadly floods that wiped out a tenth of Nepal’s electricity generation capacity last week have cast doubt on the country’s ambitious hydropower expansion plans, forcing the long-time power exporter to turn to India to kee
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Iran said on Tuesday it would reciprocate if the United States honoured its commitments under a June interim deal on halting their conflict, but tensions remained high after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Tehran with further strikes. Oil prices rose
By Markus Wacket BERLIN, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Germany is set to blame Russia for an attempted drone attack on a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle airport in August and could prepare new sanctions against Moscow in coordination with allies, two sources said on Tuesday. Airport workers had found a
By Florence Tan SINGAPORE, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Two supertankers carrying Saudi oil were struck by unknown projectiles within minutes of each other while transiting outbound through the Strait of Hormuz late on Monday, according to shipping intelligence and tracking firms Marisks and Kpler. “The near-
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Filmmaker and drone pilot Manish Maharjan crossed into Nepal from China’s Tibet through Rasuwagadhi, a border crossing closest to where last week’s catastrophic flooding began, two days before the disaster. Returning home, little did he know he would be using his professional
RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Brazilian authorities are grappling with how to keep AI from undermining the country’s hotly contested election, as AI-generated content floods voters’ social media feeds and loose-lipped chatbots challenge regulators’ abilities to rein in misinformation.
By Michael Martina WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) – China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO uses concealed equipment on board its ships to spy on military communications near the coastlines of target nations including the U.S., two senior Trump administration officials said. The officials, who spoke
NEW YORK, September 1 (Reuters) – For more than a century, in cases involving defendants ranging from a 19th-century Chicago bank clerk charged with theft to a Central American dictator accused of drug trafficking, U.S. judges have rejected arguments that alleged violations of international law or t
By Sahana Bajracharya CHITWAN, Nepal, Sept 1 (Reuters) – For four agonising days after floodwaters tore through Nepal’s Rasuwa district, Ayush Khadka’s family searched desperately for any sign that the 21-year-old civil servant was still alive. The Khadkas were among thousands of families clinging t
