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By Maya Gebeily and Ahmad Al Kerdi TYRE, Lebanon, Sept 4 (Reuters) – The schoolyard in southern Lebanon echoed with the squeals of playing children despite the beating sun and distant booms of Israeli airstrikes. But for most of the youth there, the public school isn’t where they learn. It’s where they live. Thousands of children remain displaced from their hometowns in Lebanon’s south six months after a new war erupted […]

ATHENS, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will announce more than €2 billion ($2.33 billion) in tax breaks, pay rises and other handouts on Saturday, officials said, as he seeks to recover lost ground in opinion polls ahead of next year’s election. His center-right government, which was re-elected with 40.5% in 2023 promising to increase incomes, remains ahead in opinion polls but has seen its support slip […]

BUCHAREST, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Romanian prosecutors officially indicted social media influencer Andrew Tate on Friday for trafficking minors, money laundering, sex with a minor and witness tampering and his brother Tristan for complicity, years after they first began investigating them. The Tate brothers, former kickboxers with dual U.S. and British ​citizenship, were arrested in Miami in late July after Britain requested their extradition. (Reporting by Luiza Ilie) Brought to […]

By Jayshree P Upadhyay MUMBAI, Sept 4 (Reuters) – India’s markets regulator has started hearing representations as it seeks to recover gains from trades it suspects benefited from prior knowledge of Hindenburg Research’s scathing report about Adani Group, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in 2024 said U.S.-based Kingdon Capital Management built short positions in Adani-related stocks through a Mauritius-based […]

By Laurie Chen, Solomon Cefai, Trevor Hunnicutt and Lewis Jackson BEIJING/SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Some Chinese rare earth suppliers are declining to ship to the U.S. for fear of repercussions from Beijing, three sources said, underscoring how access to the materials remains an issue for the U.S. weeks before President Xi Jinping visits Washington. U.S. officials have repeatedly asked China to stick to commitments made in Busan and Beijing […]

BANGKOK (AP) — The leader of Myanmar’s military-backed government is visiting Vietnam for talks with its leaders in his latest effort to normalize relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and attract foreign investment. Min Aung Hlaing has stepped up diplomatic engagements since he was sworn in as president in April following an election that critics say was designed to cement the military’s hold on power. Since taking office, […]

COPENHAGEN, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Denmark said on Friday it expects to be ready by the end of 2027 to send migrants without legal residency to a return hub outside the European Union, as five EU countries prepare to finalise plans for such facilities. Immigration and Integration Minister Morten Bodskov will meet counterparts from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Greece, known as the “Group of Five”, in Copenhagen on Friday […]

VLADIVOSTOK, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Igor Sechin, chief of Russia’s top oil producer Rosneft, said on Thursday that China, not OPEC, has stabilized global oil markets by reducing crude imports by 5.5 million barrels per day this year. Sechin, the most influential Russian energy manager and a long-standing ally of President Vladimir Putin, was speaking at a Russian – Chinese business forum in the far eastern city of Vladivostok. “This […]

FRANKFURT, Sept 4 (Reuters) – German police reacted to two fresh suspected attempts against the country’s electricity grid, newspaper Bild reported on Friday, heightening the nation’s state of alert after an attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport that Berlin has blamed on Russia. Bild cited local police as saying an attempt had been made to short-circuit a power grid installation in Dormagen, a city in the western state of North […]