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
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Iceland’s last remaining active whaling company said it believed it could survive a renewed push to ban the practice, given that previous attempts to outlaw whale hunting had repeatedly failed. The government said last week it would submit a
By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – The United States blocked Iran’s nuclear chief from attending this week’s U.N. atomic watchdog meeting in Vienna by opposing an exemption from so-called “snapback” U.N. sanctions, prompting protests from Tehran on Monday. Iranian nuclear chief Mohammad
By Kristina Cooke and Ben Kellerman Sept 14 (Reuters) – Immigration arrests in the U.S. have soared in recent months, aided by more local law enforcement cooperation with ICE, increased use of technology to track and process people, as well as enhanced data sharing between federal agencies. But the
WOLGAST, Germany, Sept 14 (Reuters) – A drone strike on a train near the Ukraine-Poland border is a calculated escalation by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to instil fear in Europe, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Monday. “It is all the more important that we remain level-headed,
(Corrects correspondent name in reporting line; no change in text) AMMAN, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Eleven people were injured in an ammonia gas leak at an industrial complex in Jordan’s southern city of Aqaba on Monday, an official told Reuters. Authorities evacuated the southern port as a precaution fol
By Feras Dalatey , Mahmoud Hasano and Firas Makdesi ALEPPO, Syria, Sept 14 (Reuters) – A sharp rise in fuel prices at the weekend has sparked protests across Syria, in the country’s most widespread demonstrations since the toppling of Bashar al-Assad almost two years ago. Demonstrators burned tyres
BRUSSELS, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Finland has joined France’s initiative to extend the reach of its nuclear deterrent through collaboration with partner European countries, the heads of both countries said on Monday. In response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s expressions of concern about the U.S. secu
SAO PAULO, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva regained a slim lead over right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro in a simulated runoff for next month’s election, a BTG Pactual/Nexus poll showed on Monday, though the race remained statistically tied. Last week, the BTG Pactu
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE, Sept 14 (Reuters) – A war crimes tribunal will on Wednesday announce a verdict in the trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci over charges dating back to a 1990s conflict fought over independence from Serbia. Prosecutors are seeking 45-year sentences for Th
By Georgina McCartney, Marianna Parraga and Arathy Somasekhar HUMBLE, Texas, Sept 14 (Reuters) – In the sweltering heat in Humble, Texas, just outside Houston, two workers were flattening out a yard with heavy compaction rollers, making room for pre-owned and auctioned U.S. oilfield equipment destin
By Matthias Williams and Andreas Rinke Sept 14 (Reuters) – Germany’s under-fire Chancellor Friedrich Merz won some respite on Monday after his CDU conservatives topped municipal polls in the state of Lower Saxony, provisional results showed, with the far-right Alternative for Germany also making str
TAIZ, Yemen, Sept 14 (Reuters) – As Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militants swept through the battered country’s Red Sea coastline, thousands of panicked people fled to makeshift camps, adding to an already vast population of internally displaced people. Aisha Muhammad, like others who escaped from co
ANKARA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – A Turkish court ordered the detention of 16 people pending trial in the western province of Izmir as part of a government campaign that has included sweeping raids on LGBTQ+ associations, a prosecutor’s office said on Monday. The Izmir chief prosecutor’s office said 18 su
STOCKHOLM, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Sweden’s centre-left opposition on Monday looked set to form the next government as preliminary election results showed it holding a narrow three-seat lead over the right-wing ruling parties with most of the votes counted after Sunday’s vote. A win for the opposition w
BERLIN, Sept 14 (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul described his trip to Budapest on Monday – the first by a German foreign minister in nearly seven years – as a chance to rapidly restore relations in the wake of the ouster of former prime minister Viktor Orban. There is much ground
JAKARTA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Two deadly ferry incidents over the past week in Indonesia and the Philippines have focused attention on maritime safety in Southeast Asia. Indonesia has more than 17,000 islands and the Philippines has more than 7,600, making ferries an important part of the region’s tr
TORONTO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump wants factories and investment moving south to the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is betting he can make billions flow north. About 300 CEOs and senior executives from some of the world’s biggest investment firms will descend on the Four
MANILA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Nearly 2.4 million registered voters in the Philippines are expected to cast ballots in the Muslim-majority south’s first parliamentary election, the culmination of a decade-long peace process aimed at ending separatist conflict and completing the transition to elected se
KYIV, Sept 14 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Ukrainian lawmakers on Monday to swiftly support the removal of Ukraine’s prosecutor general as tensions escalated over a series of high-profile anti-corruption investigations. Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko resigned his post la
HONG KONG, Sept 14 (Reuters) – The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than a decade ago, threatening water security as the region approaches “peak water” by mid-century, according to a study released this month. The findings come after the collapse of a Himalayan glaci
BANJARMASIN, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities intensified a search Monday for 129 people who were missing after a ferry overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea on Sunday, killing at least six passengers. The Virgo Transport 8 was carrying more than 240 people when its captain issued a distr
MANILA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Voting began on Monday in the Philippines’ Muslim-majority south under heightened security after three people were killed and 15 wounded in violence on the eve of the historic election. The vote is seen as a crucial test of efforts seeking to bring lasting peace and devel
PARIS, Sept 14 (Reuters) – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen maintained her lead ahead of the presidential election and far-left rival Jean-Luc Melenchon was second in most tested scenarios, a poll showed on Monday, stressing the electorate’s growing polarisation as Emmanuel Macron’s era ends. •
By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Indonesian rescuers including the coastguard and the navy raced on Monday to board a passenger ship that capsized in the Java Sea over the weekend as they searched for the 129 people still missing, officials said, with the confirmed death to
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Sept 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday brushed aside a report that Iran acquired satellite images of a base in Jordan from Chinese entities before an attack that killed three U.S. troops there in July. A recent report in the Wall Street Journal cited unnamed
By Greg Torode and Mei Mei Chu HONG KONG, Sept 14 (Reuters) – China’s military leadership is expected to outline its aims for global security when it hosts its annual defence forum this week amid churning tensions in its own neighbourhood over Taiwan, the South China Sea and doubts about U.S. commit
TOKYO, Sept 14 (Reuters) – A candidate backed by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government won Okinawa’s gubernatorial election on Sunday, ousting an opponent of Tokyo’s military build-up across the strategically important island chain near Taiwan and China. Genta Koja, 42, defeated two-te
By Mohammed Ghobari , Nayera Abdallah and Bo Erickson ADEN/DUBAI, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Middle East diplomacy appeared to falter heading into Monday with the postponement of a meeting between Iran and other Persian Gulf powers, while fresh attacks around the region’s two most important oil transit rou
