8+ hour, 30+ min ago   (298+ words) SINGAPORE, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Commodity vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz fell to a single digit per day at the weekend, preliminary shiptracking data showed on ​Monday, well below a 10-day average of 14. Over ‌the weekend, four vessels exited the…...

11+ hour, 59+ min ago   (264+ words) ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Sept 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday brushed aside a report that Iran acquired satellite images of ​a base in Jordan from Chinese entities before ‌an attack that killed three U.S. troops there in…...

11+ hour, 55+ 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, 48+ min ago   (616+ words) By Greg Torode and Mei Mei Chu HONG KONG, Sept 14 (Reuters) – China’s military leadership is expected to outline its aims for global security when it hosts its annual defence forum this week amid churning tensions in its own neighbourhood over…...

13+ hour, 48+ min ago   (813+ words) By Mohammed Ghobari, Nayera Abdallah and Bo Erickson ADEN/DUBAI, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Middle East diplomacy appeared to falter heading into Monday with the postponement of a meeting between Iran and other Persian Gulf powers, while fresh attacks around the region’s…...

13+ hour, 25+ 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…...

18+ hour, 23+ 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…...

19+ hour, 29+ min ago   (381+ words) By Bo Erickson and Padraic Halpin DOONBEG, Ireland, Sept 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday reiterated his support for Northern Ireland breaking from the United Kingdom to unify with the Republic of ​Ireland, but said he would not talk…...

19+ hour, 47+ 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…...

22+ hour, 21+ min ago   (307+ words) By Bo Erickson and Padraic Halpin DOONBEG, Ireland, Sept 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday a lot of “very negative forces” are bringing things up about AI that ​won’t happen and said that he wanted to make ‌sure…...