18+ hour, 57+ 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…...

11+ hour, 28+ 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…...

12+ hour, 52+ 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…...

20+ hour, 27+ min ago   (400+ words) BRUSSELS, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney wants a closer relationship 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…...

19+ hour, 32+ min ago   (174+ words) Sept 13 (Reuters) – Israel and Lebanon will meet in Rome in October to discuss a ​U.S.-brokered security agreement intended to ‌ease hostilities along the border, a State Department Official told Reuters. The continued implementation of the deal “remains the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (174+ words) 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 ​of birds....

1+ day, 5+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (639+ words) VENICE, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s post-war drama “Woman Unknown” won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, with its star Mathilde Arcel also taking best actress honours in a rare double victory. El-Toukhy was the…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (288+ words) PARIS, Sept 8 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron has urged the European Commission to back a European Union-wide ban on social media for children under 15 after France failed to ​enact its own legislation, his office said on Tuesday. In a ‌letter…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (169+ words) SAO PAULO, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva maintained the numerical ​lead over Senator Flavio Bolsonaro ‌in a potential runoff of the October election, a Datafolha poll showed on Friday. • Lula is seen with 46% ‌of ​the vote…...