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TOKYO, Sept 9 (Reuters) – A landslide struck one of the main starting points for climbers on Japan’s Mount Fuji on Wednesday, local broadcaster TBS reported, after heavy rain inundated large parts of the country’s centre.  Three vehicles were covered by the debris but no injuries or casualties have been reported, the broadcaster said. The incident followed heavy rain in the mountainous areas of Shizuoka Prefecture overnight and into Wednesday […]

Sept 9 (Reuters) – Israel will open its first embassy in Slovenia on Wednesday in a sign of warming relations after populist Janez Jansa formed a centre-right government following elections in March. The rapprochement comes as Israel faces growing diplomatic isolation elsewhere over its policy in the West Bank including import bans from Britain, France and Canada on products from Israeli settlements. “Since taking office, Prime Minister Jansa and his new government […]

BERLIN, Sept 9 (Reuters) – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday accused the Alternative for Germany of supporting Russia against Germany’s interests and advocating anti-migration policies that were tantamount to “ethnic cleansing”. Merz was addressing the German parliament in the wake of his party’s bruising defeat against the AfD, which surged to victory in an election in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on an anti-immigration platform last weekend. The AfD […]

By Sarah Young and Sam Tobin LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Flights from British airports resumed on Wednesday after a major air traffic failure, but questions mounted about the reliability of Britain’s aviation systems and ministers called in the flight control boss to explain the shutdown. The hours-long outage on Tuesday, which resulted in the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights and left hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded, has […]

SEOUL, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee will buy 1.9 trillion won worth of shares in the company from his mother, Hong Ra-hee, Lee said in a company filing on Wednesday. He will buy the shares on October 12, according to the filing. (Reporting by Heejin Kim; Editing by Jan Harvey) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Lucy Papachristou TBILISI, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Amid the debris six metres beneath Tbilisi’s main thoroughfare, roadworks that have frustrated residents have yielded an archaeological prize: a cache of 10th-century pottery among the oldest medieval works ever found in the Georgian capital. Work on Rustaveli Avenue, the city’s stately central boulevard, began this summer to add pedestrian crossings, improve signage and make other upgrades. The project has brought traffic […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Malaysia’s ruling coalition on Wednesday said people convicted in high-profile graft cases should serve their sentences in full, amid media reports that jailed former premier Najib Razak has made another bid for a royal pardon.  The local Chinese-language newspaper Sin Chew Daily reported that a pardons board chaired by King Sultan Ibrahim was due to meet on Friday with Najib’s clemency request expected to be […]

By Vincent Daheron PARIS Sept 9 (Reuters) – Edgar Grospiron, president of the organising committee for the 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in the French Alps, is set to leave his post just 18 months after his appointment, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. Negotiations are under way over the terms of his departure, with the organising committee’s executive board due to meet […]

Sept 9 (Reuters) – Chrysler parent Stellantis is recalling 201,976 Jeep vehicles in the U.S. due to a software error that may cause the tire pressure monitoring system to fail to detect low tire pressure or illuminate the warning light, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Wednesday.  The issue increases crash risk and causes the vehicles to fail to comply with U.S. federal tire-pressure monitoring system safety requirements, […]