12+ hour, 44+ min ago   (269+ words) SEOUL, Sept 13 (Reuters) – South Korea’s expanded espionage law takes effect on Sunday, broadening espionage offences beyond acts involving North Korea to include all foreign countries as Seoul seeks to protect key technologies ​amid intensifying competition in semiconductors and other strategic…...

1+ hour, 44+ 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…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (138+ words) VILNIUS, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Lithuania closed Vilnius airport on Sunday and ​NATO summoned at ‌least one fighter jet in response to a possible sighting of a drone in Lithuanian ‌airspace, ​the country’s National ⁠Crisis Management Centre ⁠said. The air alert was…...

14+ hour, 59+ min ago   (631+ words) KYIV, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Russian air strikes in several Ukrainian regions on Saturday killed nine people, injured dozens and damaged residential buildings and infrastructure across the country, local officials said. The civilian death toll has risen sharply in Ukraine over the…...

5+ hour, 4+ min ago   (518+ words) LOS ANGELES, Sept 12 (Reuters) – OpenAI will not go public in 2026, Chief Executive Sam Altman said in remarks published on Saturday, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence that render “unacceptable” even a 10% risk that AI could cause human extinction by decade’s…...

16+ hour, 34+ min ago   (350+ words) TORONTO, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Australian actor Rebel Wilson returned to the Toronto International Film Festival with her second directorial feature “Girl Group,” which she told Reuters combined “comedy, music and fun,” ​following a legal battle surrounding her first film. Wilson’s directorial…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (403+ words) JAKARTA, Sept 7 (Reuters) – A group of Indonesian legal advocates on Monday condemned a military court’s decision to cut the sentences of two soldiers and reverse their discharges after they were convicted of throwing acid at ​an activist who campaigned against…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (263+ words) BLOOMINGTON (KFGO/WCCO) – One person was injured during a mid-afternoon shootout Wednesday about a half-mile from the Mall of America. Police were called to an apartment building around 1:40 p.m. near American Boulevard and 30th Avenue on a report of two groups…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (266+ words) WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday the Trump administration will sanction a large bank next week ​as it continues to apply economic pressure ‌on Tehran to end a more than six-month U.S. conflict with…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (142+ words) The Mighty 790 KFGO Bolsonaro, Lula statistically tied in simulated Brazil runoff, Atlas/Bloomberg poll shows SAO PAULO, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and President ​Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are statistically tied in a simulated runoff ahead of next…...