55+ 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…...

1+ hour, 6+ 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…...

2+ hour, 24+ min ago   (520+ words) 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…...

2+ hour, 9+ min ago   (292+ words) 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 campaign that the government…...

3+ hour, 17+ min ago   (191+ words) 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 the border crossing…...

3+ hour, 42+ min ago   (525+ words) (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 weld the grouping…...

3+ hour, 36+ min ago   (220+ words) 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…...

4+ hour, 33+ min ago   (151+ words) 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…...

5+ hour, 33+ min ago   (405+ words) 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 and…...

5+ hour, 22+ min ago   (298+ words) 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 plant ‌in Ukraine. Alexei Likhachev said the…...