SAO PAULO, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva would beat right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro if they were in a second-round runoff in next month’s election, according to a CNT/MDA poll released on Tuesday. • If there was a runoff, Lula would receive 47.3% of voter supp
By Angelo Amante ROME, Sept 15 (Reuters) – A contested reform of Italy’s electoral law won Senate approval on Tuesday amid fierce opposition criticism, as rivals accused Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of changing the rules to improve her chances of winning re-election next year. Meloni’s conservative
ISTANBUL, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Turkish authorities detained at least 150 people on Tuesday after police intervened at a gathering outside Istanbul’s Caglayan courthouse, where demonstrators had planned to protest about recent detentions targeting LGBTQ+ groups, witnesses said. The detentions marked t
A Houthi official said Tuesday that Saudi warplanes struck Yemen, killing three people, including two children, while Human Rights Watch accused the Houthi rebels of possible war crimes with its attacks on commercial vessels. The renewed fighting in Yemen is endangering civilians and threatening shi
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s air force lost contact on Tuesday with one of its long-distance surveillance drones after it went missing during a flight off the country’s northwestern coast. There was no immediate information as to what the mission of the uncrewed RQ-4B aircraft, also known as Global Hawk, wa
By Ananda Teresia and Yuddy Cahya Budiman JAKARTA, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Rizky Apriansyah was asleep on the top deck of the Virgo Transport 8, the ferry that capsized in Indonesia’s Java Sea, when friends woke him up at around 1 a.m. on Sunday, urging him to grab a life jacket. At that point, the ship
By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court is set to hold an unprecedented hearing on Tuesday to decide whether to investigate one of its most powerful justices over allegations that he advised a banker accused of leading a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, fueling a deepe
BUDAPEST, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Hungary’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that she had filed a criminal complaint against former minister Peter Szijjarto and his team for regularly using costly private flights instead of scheduled flights in the past four years. The report filed by Foreign Minister A
SEOUL, Sept 15 (Reuters) – South Korea and Kazakhstan signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation on the peaceful use of nuclear energy as their leaders met on Tuesday and pledged to work together on trade, energy and critical minerals and AI, Seoul said. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will deliver a major state of the European Union speech on Wednesday setting out her priorities for the next year and her vision for tackling the challenges faced by the world’s biggest trading bloc. The content of von der Leyen ’s a
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian court ruled Tuesday that one of three serial killers convicted over the murders of 11 people in one of the country’s most notorious criminal cases can be released from prison, rejecting a state government’s bid to block his parole. The victims were killed ov
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Sept 15 (Reuters) – The recovery of hundreds of bodies from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza during the war that began nearly three years ago has raised fresh concerns about possible war crimes, the U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday. Vo
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Sept 15 (Reuters) – The World Trade Organization on Tuesday urged its members to reform global trade rules or risk a slide into fragmentation that could significantly reduce economic output and hit poorer countries hardest. In its annual report, the Geneva-based global
OSLO, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Norwegian police said on Tuesday they are investigating Telenor on suspicion that the telecoms operator aided and abetted crimes against humanity in Myanmar following a military coup in the Southeast Asian nation in 2021. Investigators raided Telenor’s headquarters in Oslo
GENEVA, Sept 15 (Reuters) – U.N. officials said on Tuesday that efforts to curb Ebola in eastern Congo were beginning to show results but stressed that the epidemic remained “massive” and would take months to bring under control. “It remains a deadly and a massive epidemic. There are some areas of p
By Stefanno Sulaiman and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, who was sacked as Indonesia’s finance minister this week, said on Tuesday he was upset to be removed from his job, but was half expecting the decision. President Prabowo Subianto abruptly removed Purbaya as fi
NAMISINDWA, Uganda (AP) — The farmers who paid David Nabutsilili money to summon rain were angry when they received so much of it that their vegetable gardens were left flooded. They chased him up and down the hills, stopping when he fell upon a rock and broke a femur. That was his punishment. Sixte
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court is in the throes of an unprecedented crisis. Sessions are being canceled. Justices are overruling one another’s decisions. And suspicions of graft, political bias and police interference loom over several of its members ahead of the country’s presidential
MOSCOW, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Russia holds a parliamentary election on September 18 to 20, the first since it launched its full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022. The political system is tightly controlled and the ruling United Russia party, backed by President Vladimir Putin, is widely expected t
By Max Hunder and Tom Balmforth KYIV/LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – In early July, Ukraine’s military invited a large group of producers to test a new generation of interceptors developed to counter the jet-powered attack drones Russia has used to devastating effect in recent months. According to two s
BUDAPEST, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Hungary’s government submitted a bill to parliament late on Monday that would remove anti-LGBTQ+ rules prohibiting the “promotion of homosexuality” to under-18s implemented by Viktor Orban’s former nationalist government. Orban’s government, which was ousted after 16 ye
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Questions were growing about a passenger ferry believed to have sunk off the coast of Vanuatu as rescuers on Tuesday searched for more than 30 people still missing. The sinking on Friday, which officials said wasn’t reported for almost a full day, has killed at least t
Sept 15 (Reuters) – A drone hit a petrol station in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv early on Tuesday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, just a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said Ukraine and Russia had agreed not to target each other’s energy assets. The attack injured one person, and there was also a s
SAO PAULO (AP) — Renowned Indigenous Chief Raoni Metuktire is receiving palliative care at home in the Brazilian heartland after being diagnosed with cancer at age 94, his institute said Monday. The Raoni Institute said the cancer diagnosis in the chief’s digestive system was confirmed after he was
Sept 14 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodriguez is planning to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the plans. Rodriguez is expected to hold high-level meetings, according to the report. Reu
By Tora Agarwala and Ju-min Park NEW DELHI/BEIJING, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Every day since a torrent of mud and rocks destroyed a Nepal-China border crossing high up in the Himalayas last month, Arushi Gupta’s parents have called and messaged their missing daughter hoping she somehow survived. The last
By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Rough seas were still hindering Indonesian rescuers on Tuesday as they searched for 129 people missing after a passenger ship capsized in the Java Sea three days ago, officials said. If weather conditions improve, rescuers, currently limited to air and
BANGKOK, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Foreign ministers of Cambodia and Thailand delivered opening statements on Tuesday at the first meeting of a U.N. arbitration process to resolve a long-running maritime dispute between the two Southeast Asian neighbours. Here are some details from their statements delive
By Timour Azhari RIYADH, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis launched a new wave of attacks on Saudi Arabia and were digging into positions on the western coast of Yemen along the Red Sea, Yemeni officials said, as urgent deliberations took place in Riyadh over how to respond to their l
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Mahmoud Khalil and other pro-Palestinian student activists sued Columbia University on Monday, accusing the Ivy League school of being deliberately indifferent to years of pervasive harassment because of their advocacy. Khalil became a face of the Tr
