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By Bo Erickson DOONBEG, Ireland, Sept 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to stop targeting ​Russian diesel infrastructure, saying the attacks were ‌causing a shortage of the fuel that ...

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 French...

By Sahana Bajracharya 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 Nepa...

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...

CAIRO, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Libyan authorities have seized a shipment of tens of thousands of ecstasy pills, each marked with the face of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi and smuggled ​in from Europe, security officials said. Images released by a ‌security...

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...

By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Lithuania said that a perceived drone sighting in its airspace ​earlier on Sunday that ‌prompted authorities to close Vilnius airport and NATO to summon at least one fighter jet, turned out to be a ‌flock ​...

ISTANBUL, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have detained 26 people and searched the offices of six LGBTQ+ associations in a series of raids that followed allegations ​of prostitution and obscenity, prosecutors said. The crackdown is ‌part of a c...

KYIV/MOSCOW Sept 13 (Reuters) - Russia attacked a truck near Ukraine's border with Poland, Polish and Ukrainian officials said on Sunday, the latest strike to hit areas near NATO as Moscow and Kyiv intensify their long-distance strikes to try to shift ...

KYIV, Sept 13 (Reuters) - A Russian drone struck near the Ukrainian-Polish border in the small town of Yahodyn overnight, ​Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha ‌said on Sunday. The minister corrected his earlier statement saying the drone struck on...

CAIRO, Sept 13 (Reuters) - An Israeli airstrike on Sunday killed at least two Palestinians in a vehicle and wounded 13 ​others in the Gaza Strip, medical ‌staff said. The strike in the Tel Al-Hawa neighbourhood in western Gaza City, left the vehicle ma...

(Corrects spelling of headline tag) NEW DELHI, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled on Sunday initiatives in areas ranging from AI to trade to deepen cooperation among the "Greater BRICS" emerging economies, as Beijing seeks to wel...

KYIV, Sept 13 (Reuters) - At least five people were wounded in a Russian attack ​on the Ukrainian city ‌of Odesa on Sunday morning, officials said, a day after strikes on the city killed two people. "Residential ‌areas ​were damaged ⁠in several distric...

Sept 13 (Reuters) - The head of Russia's state nuclear energy corporation accused Ukraine on Sunday of attacking diesel fuel trucks, killing two Russian servicemen and deliberately ​jeopardising safety at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power pla...

By Adrian Portugal and Eloisa Lopez CORON, Phliippines, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Authorities in the Philippines said on Sunday it could take weeks or months to identify the victims of a ferry fire that killed 76 people, as ​forensic experts begin collecting...

Sept 13 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military-backed government said on Sunday its permanent representative to the United Nations was undertaking "illegal activities" and that his status had ​been revoked and withdrawn. Here are some other ‌details of the sit...

BANJARMASIN, Indonesia, Sept 13 (Reuters) - At least six people died and another 129 are still missing after an Indonesian passenger ship capsized in ​the Java Sea during bad weather early on ‌Sunday, the search and rescue agency said. Crews managed to...

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 by Yemen's Houthis threatene...

SYDNEY, Sept 13 (Reuters) - At least one person was confirmed dead and more than 30 were missing on Sunday after a ​ferry sank off Vanuatu's coast, Prime Minister ‌Jotham Napat's office said in a statement. Search and rescue operations were continuing ...

SYDNEY, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Australia's government pledged on Sunday to bolster resilience in the nation's telecommunications networks after an outage ​at Optus, the country's No. 2 ‌carrier, impacted users in three states and disrupted some emergency ...