13+ hour, 17+ min ago   (322+ words) JAKARTA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Two deadly ferry incidents over the past week in Indonesia and the Philippines have focused attention on maritime safety in Southeast Asia. Indonesia has ​more than 17,000 islands and the Philippines has more ‌than 7,600, making ferries an important…...

18+ hour, 57+ 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…...

1+ day, 1+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 17+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (447+ words) 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 Nepal, ​finally returned to his…...

1+ day, 7+ 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, 19+ hour ago   (704+ words) By Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Swedes were voting in a closely fought election on Sunday that will either bring a far-right party into government for the first time or shift the country back towards the liberalism…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (670+ words) By Nicole Jao, Jarrett Renshaw and Liz Hampton NEW YORK, Sept 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. national average price of diesel on Thursday surpassed $6 a gallon for the first time ever, according to price tracker GasBuddy, as the U.S.-Israeli war on…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (209+ words) TAIPEI, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Taiwan Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim is making a rare visit to Europe, attending a forum ​on democracy in Italy along ‌with Taipei’s foreign minister, the presidential office said on Friday. While Taiwan’s foreign ministers on occasion visit…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (527+ words) Sept 10 (Reuters) – Energy and bond markets are on edge once again after U.S. President Donald Trump said the Iran war would not end until after November’s midterm elections. That came amid the most intense attacks on Gulf shipping in the…...