3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (422+ words) LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – The first visitors to the British Museum’s blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry exhibition spoke of their excitement at seeing with their own eyes the 1,000-year-old embroidery many remember from school lessons. The sell-out display, which opened ​to the public…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (191+ words) SEOUL, Sept 10 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un used celebrations marking the 78th anniversary of ​the country’s founding to praise troops engaged ‌in “overseas military operations”, state media KCNA said. In a speech at Pyongyang’s assembly hall on Wednesday, Kim…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (343+ words) JAKARTA, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Respiratory infections caused by hazardous wildfire pollution in Indonesia have more than doubled in just over a week, data from the country’s health ministry showed on Thursday. Fires have been blazing ​across vast stretches of forest and…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (183+ words) (This story has been refiled to remove the image.) ISTANBUL, Sept 9 (Reuters) – One person died after suffering ​a heart attack during ‌a wildfire in Turkey’s southern Antalya province, a local official and broadcasters said on Wednesday, as authorities sought to…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (261+ words) STOCKHOLM, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in Norway on Tuesday to attend the funeral of King Harald V, the office ​of Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said. Tens ‌of thousands of people as well as leaders from…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (326+ words) BEIJING, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping struck a positive tone in a phone call with Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Tuesday, saying that Beijing ​and London share greater common interests than differences. Xi said there ‌was a…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (496+ words) SARAJEVO, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Bosnia expelled two Serbian diplomats on Tuesday and suspended plans to sign a regional cooperation accord in protest over Belgrade’s decision to hold a lavish public funeral for former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic. Mladic died on…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (351+ words) WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent advocated on Tuesday for Washington’s use of financial power as a foreign policy tool with the goal of advancing the ​interests of American allies, including in financial and political situations ‌abroad. “I…...

6+ day, 57+ min ago   (739+ words) By Yury Garcia and Alexandra Valencia GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador/QUITO, Sept 8 (Reuters) – For one grandmother, it was when bullets began hitting the rooftops of her neighborhood that she decided she would have to leave the housing development where she had lived…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (264+ words) JAKARTA, Sept 8 (Reuters) – The Indonesian agency responsible for the country’s free meals programme has temporarily closed nearly 2,000 kitchens for failing to register ​for hygiene checks, its chief said. Here are ‌some details: • The National Nutrition Agency suspended 1,999 kitchens across Indonesia…...