21+ hour, 58+ min ago   (238+ words) PARIS, Sept 13 (Reuters) – France’s mission to the United Nations in Geneva has said it “regrets” criticising the United States over human rights in a social ​media post that triggered a diplomatic dispute which ‌has delayed the arrival of a new…...

15+ hour, 9+ min ago   (474+ words) 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,…...

12+ hour, 34+ min ago   (487+ words) 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…...

16+ hour, 49+ min ago   (305+ 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…...

21+ hour, 49+ 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…...

23+ hour, 26+ min ago   (261+ words) PRISTINA, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Kosovo’s parliament re-elected Albin Kurti as prime minister on Sunday after his party came first in June elections, but ​a failure to elect a president could ‌send the country into another snap election. Kurti was elected with…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (292+ words) MANILA, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Philippine rescuers on Friday resumed the search for survivors of a ferry fire that killed at least five people off the ​western province of Palawan, with more than 80 people ‌still missing. Rescue operations were complicated by thick…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (115+ words) whbl.com Brazil’s Lula says he supports discussion setting terms for Supreme Court justices BRASILIA, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula ​da Silva said on Thursday he believes it is necessary to discuss ​term limits ⁠for Supreme ⁠Court justices....

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (179+ words) 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 month’s election, an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll showed on Thursday, with the right-wing lawmaker now holding…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (339+ words) QUITO, Sept 10 (Reuters) – An Ecuadorean court sentenced former President Abdala Bucaram to nine years and four months of imprisonment on Wednesday for his involvement in a criminal ​organization that fraudulently sold medical supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bucaram, ‌74, who was…...