19+ hour, 55+ 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…...

19+ hour, 21+ min ago   (374+ words) By Bo Erickson, Padraic Halpin and Conor Humphries DOONBEG, Ireland, Sept 13 (Reuters) – No country should have lower interest rates than the U.S., President Donald Trump said on Sunday, days before the Federal ​Reserve’s next policy meeting. Speaking to reporters at…...

13+ hour, 50+ 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…...

18+ hour, 6+ min ago   (180+ words) Sept 13 (Reuters) – A newly installed memorial statue of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk was vandalized overnight in Phoenix ​on Sunday, according to the organization that he ‌founded. The statue was defaced with red paint, according to a post on X…...

21+ hour, 25+ 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…...

20+ hour, 30+ 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, 2+ 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, 10+ hour ago   (337+ words) LOS ANGELES, Sept 12 (Reuters) – An ESPN interview on Saturday with a Republican U.S. senator did not violate the Federal Communications Commission’s equal-time rule, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr ​said, days after the agency issued a warning to ‌another network about a…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (524+ words) Sept 12 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has ruled that the Trump administration broke the law by ordering the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its workforce in half. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco in a decision issued late Friday…...

6+ day, 17+ 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…...