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
LIVERPOOL, England, Sept 15 (Reuters) – A public inquiry into Lucy Letby’s murder of seven newborn babies was due to publish its final report on Tuesday, amid growing questions about whether the former British nurse’s convictions were based on flawed medical evidence. Letby was convicted in 2023 of
BOGOTA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Colombia’s Congress on Monday approved the government’s 2027 spending budget of 634.9 trillion pesos ($206.6 billion), amid a sharp deterioration in public finances that is expected to push the fiscal deficit to a record high next year. The Senate and lower house approved
SEOUL, Sept 15 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would “expand and deepen” joint work with Russia in a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. In a reply sent on Monday to Putin’s congratulations for North Korea’s 78th founding anniversary
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS, Sept 15 (Reuters) – A NATO fighter jet shot down a drone in Lithuania shortly after midnight on Tuesday, the Lithuanian national crisis management centre said. The drone, which likely entered from Belarus, was shot down near Pratkunai village in southern Lithuania, near Kau
BUKAVU, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered on Monday at a mass funeral in eastern Congo to mourn 27 young victims of a fire that engulfed two schools, as families wept and officials laid down wreaths and made speeches. A fire swept through two adjacent schools last week in the city of Bukavu i
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s public approval rating rose from a record low, while Americans voiced growing support for Democrats gaining power in the U.S. Congress in a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken in the days after the Republican Party’s first-ever midterm con
By Michael Holden LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – The children of Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are to swap schools after just two days because of concerns over the security of transporting them, the couple’s spokesperson said on Monday. Last month, Harry, the younger son of King Charles, a
BELGRADE, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic, a populist who has been president or prime minister for 12 years, said he would run for prime minister in an October 25 election, and thousands of opposition supporters rallied in Belgrade on Monday. Vucic has faced nearly two years
By Leila Miller BUENOS AIRES, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Argentine President Javier Milei is preparing legislation this week to toughen sanctions against companies operating in the Falkland Islands, a move analysts say raises uncertainty over whether he may escalate tensions with Britain by targeting other
LONDON (AP) — The leaders of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland signed a pact Monday that threatens to lead to the breakup of the United Kingdom. The first ministers of the three semiautonomous regions of the U.K. told Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his government to prepare for constitutional ch
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Vadim Ghirda is a Bucharest, Romania-based Associated Press photographer who has documented major news, conflict and humanitarian stories for more than 35 years. Here’s what he had to say about this extraordinary photo: I enjoy shooting events outside the mainstream hard-ne
KYIV, Sept 14 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Kyiv was ready to support a U.S. proposal for a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire on energy sites only if Washington could ensure Moscow was genuinely ready to end its war on Ukraine. Zelenskiy made his comments in his nightly video
MEXICO CITY, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs demanded justice after the violent death of a Spanish college student in a state neighboring Mexico City, a case that media reports said was a stabbing and local authorities are investigating as a femicide. “We want to get to the b
JERUSALEM, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that a new documentary film which alleges that mass civilian deaths were routinely built into targeting decisions in Gaza was part of a wave of global incitement against Jews. “NAZA”, directed by Israeli journali
MANCHESTER, England, Sept 14 (Reuters) – A British man on Monday admitted repeatedly drugging and raping his wife at their home over more than two decades, shortly before his trial was about to begin. The man – from northern England who is in his 60s but cannot be named as it would identify his wife
LISBON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Portugal’s foreign minister said on Monday that Israeli settlement expansion and economic pressure in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem were undermining prospects for a viable Palestinian state. • Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said Israel’s E1 settlement plan was
By Feras Dalatey TARTOUS, Syria, Sept 14 (Reuters) – A convoy of Russian naval and cargo vessels delivered supplies last week to coastal facilities long used by Moscow’s military, two sources familiar with the operation said, in the first such mission since Damascus and Moscow agreed last month on t
By Johan Ahlander and Tom Little STOCKHOLM, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Immigrants in Sweden expressed relief on Monday after voters dealt the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, whose rise helped drive the country’s politics sharply to the right on immigration, their first setback in a parliamentary electio
ROME (AP) — Victor L. Simpson, the longtime Rome bureau chief for The Associated Press whose four decades as a foreign correspondent spanned five popes, wars and violence that touched him personally, has died. He was 84. Simpson died of cancer Sunday at his home in Rome, his children said Monday. Du
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his 71st birthday on Monday but it was Vatican employees who got the gift. The Vatican published a papal decree repealing 2021 salary cuts that Pope Francis had imposed on many Vatican employees as part of the Holy See’s COVID-19 cost-saving measures. In t
Sept 14 (Reuters) – Molavi Yusef Gorgij, a senior Sunni Muslim cleric, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in southeastern Iran on Monday, the official news agency IRNA reported. IRNA quoted a local governor as saying Gorgij “was active in the fight against divisive elements and Zionism”, a descrip
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Two minibus taxis collided head-on, and an SUV crashed into them on one of South Africa’s main highways, killing at least 21 people and leaving four others seriously injured, authorities said Monday. The crash on Sunday night in the Western Cape Province took place bet
MOSCOW, Sept 14 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Monday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump calling on Ukraine to halt strikes on Russia’s diesel-producing facilities, while adding that the upheaval in global energy markets was mainly due to the conflict in the Gulf region. Trump on Sunday called on Ukra
By Nafisa Eltahir and Olivia Le Poidevin Sept 14 (Reuters) – The World Food Programme’s funding for Sudan — the world’s largest hunger crisis — has fallen by about half this year, its acting head told Reuters, as war drives more people into hunger while the regional crisis raises prices and aid budg
COPENHAGEN, Sept 14 (Reuters) – The European Union should take on a more strategic and proactive role in the European Arctic, 12 member states including Germany, France and the Netherlands said in a joint statement on Monday. Finland, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Monday that Russian drone strikes near the Ukraine-Poland border — one of which hit a train shortly after senior visiting officials had passed through the same station — would drive the military alliance to increase its support for Kyiv, c
COPENHAGEN, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Monday she is hoping that the United States and Denmark will find a way forward peacefully on the Arctic region, including Greenland, a self-governed Danish territory. U.S. President Trump sparked a crisis in U.S.-Europe
