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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian strikes killed three civilians and wounded dozens in Ukraine, local officials said Saturday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that sending European troops into Ukraine would amount to direct conflict with Russia. Ukraine is under mounting pressure from Russia’s intensifying air campaign that uses ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones to pierce defenses. Moscow’s attacks have targeted Ukraine’s power grid ahead of winter in what officials […]

DUBLIN, Sept 12 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Iran was probably responsible for an aerial attack on Saudi Arabia ​that shut down its East-West pipeline, one of the kingdom’s main routes for exporting crude while bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. “I think they are, probably they are,” Trump told reporters in Dublin when asked if Iran was responsible for the attack on the vital oil […]

By Nivedita Balu TORONTO, Sept 12 (Reuters) – A growing consumer push to buy Canadian and boycott U.S. products is reshaping supermarket shelves in Canada, forcing grocers to improve country-of-origin labeling and secure new sources of supply. In Ontario, the president of independent grocer Vince’s Market, Giancarlo Trimarchi, turned to Facebook to show customers that most produce on his stores’ shelves is Canadian after receiving angry emails and comments about the grocer […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve and its interest rate policy will be the main focus for Wall Street this week. The central bank will close out its two-day meeting on Wednesday and could raise its benchmark interest rate in an effort to tame stubbornly high inflation. Wall Street will also get an update Wednesday on U.S. retail sales for August. That could provide more insight into how and […]

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The funeral was underway Saturday in western Uganda for a traditional monarch who ascended the throne of the Tooro Kingdom as an infant in 1995 and died last month at 34, triggering a succession dispute that has rocked the royal family and gripped the entire nation. The funeral of Tooro’s King Oyo Nyimba in a cathedral in the remote city of Fort Portal, near the Congo […]

By Sarita Chaganti Singh, Shivangi Acharya and Saurabh Sharma NEW DELHI, Sept 12 (Reuters) – The BRICS group of emerging economies has agreed on a joint declaration, sources told Reuters on Saturday, hours before its leaders began a summit in New Delhi, aiming to boost the bloc’s global clout. The summit, hoping to bridge divisions between members Iran and the United Arab Emirates over the Gulf conflict, is being held as […]

Attacks on a key Saudi oil pipeline were launched from Iraqi territory, said Iraq’s government Saturday, pledging to probe further. Iraq closed two key border crossings with Iran, halting all passenger and commercial traffic until further notice, Iran’s state-run media reported Saturday. Meanwhile, fears mount that gas and oil prices may rise and international shipping could be further disrupted after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis seized a key island and captured a […]

By Adrian Portugal and Eloisa Lopez CORON, Phliippines, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Philippine authorities began the painstaking process of identifying victims from a ferry fire on Saturday, a day after responders recovered bodies from the burned-out vessel, raising the death toll to at least 35 and leaving more than 50 people missing. The bodies were transported to a port in Coron town, where temporary tents were set up for forensic […]

NEW DELHI, Sept 12 (Reuters) – The BRICS group of countries has agreed on a joint declaration, which is unlikely to name any country but will condemn unilateral war by any country, four sources told Reuters on Saturday. The bloc, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, is holding its annual summit in New Delhi this weekend. Representatives of the […]