2+ hour, 44+ min ago   (343+ words) BEIJING, Sept 14 (Reuters) – An essay by Anthropic’s CEO calling for a slowing down of AI development may look like a rational statement focused on safety risks, but it is ​really a “Cold War playbook” targeting China, the state-backed Global Times…...

5+ hour, 38+ min ago   (264+ words) 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…...

5+ hour, 43+ min ago   (298+ words) JAKARTA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – More than 600 Indonesian rescuers were searching for 129 people still missing after a passenger ship capsized in the Java Sea on the ​weekend, an official said on Monday, with the ‌death toll steady at six. The Virgo Transport…...

7+ hour, 23+ min ago   (337+ words) 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-term…...

12+ hour, 24+ min ago   (281+ words) KYIV, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy imposed sanctions on a former press secretary on Sunday, accusing her and nine others of spreading Russian ​propaganda and of supporting Russia’s aggressive policy toward ‌Ukraine. Yuliia Mendel — who worked with Zelenskiy from…...

7+ hour, 38+ min ago   (813+ words) 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…...

1+ day, 28+ min ago   (961+ words) By Mohammed Ghobari and Nayera Abdallah ADEN/DUBAI, Sept 13 (Reuters) – New strikes on Saudi Arabia and on ships in the Gulf tested nerves in the Middle East on Sunday, after an attack on a Saudi oil pipeline and an advance…...

16+ hour, 33+ min ago   (447+ words) TILATHI KOILADI, Nepal, Sept 13 (Reuters) – After nine days trapped in a hydropower tunnel and a week of hospital care following his dramatic rescue, Sanjay Sah, a rare survivor of last month’s devastating glacier collapse in Nepal, ​finally returned to his…...

18+ hour, 39+ min ago   (248+ words) By Alex Lawler and Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters) – SAUDI PIPELINE OUTAGE THREATENS LOSS OF 4% OF GLOBAL OIL SUPPLY UNLESS PUMPING RESUMES WITHIN DAYS, SAY TRADERS, SOURCES SAUDI ARABIA HAS STORAGE AT YANBU FOR JUST 5-7 DAYS OF EXPORTS, PLUS SMALLER…...

19+ hour, 3+ min ago   (349+ words) BRUSSELS, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney wants closer links with the European Union and is exploring whether his country could become an “associate member” of the bloc, The Wall ​Street Journal reported on Sunday. The EU, which has…...