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NEW YORK (AP) — Oil giant Chevron is confirming that it will expand its operations in Venezuela, just days after President Donald Trump announced an ambitious deal to develop the nation’s oil reserves and give the Pentagon a stake in the profits. Chevron said Wednesday that it has been assigned additional acreage in the Orinoco Belt, where the company has an established position. Joint venture plans include investing more than […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian aerial attacks struck apartment buildings in Ukraine’s Kyiv and Odesa regions overnight and Wednesday morning, wounding at least eight civilians, local officials said. The Ukrainian air force said those two regions bore the brunt of the latest attacks on the country. The air war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified as the conflict stretches into its fifth year following Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor. The […]

BERLIN (AP) — Two incidents that disrupted power distribution systems in the west and east of Germany are being invested as possible sabotage, authorities said. Multiple explosive devices were found Tuesday morning at a substation near the Jänschwalde coal-fired power plant in Brandenburg in northeast Germany. No general power outage resulted, but a few of the devices caused short circuits, authorities said. Separately, a short circuit that caused several power […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A tugboat capsized and sank off South Korea’s southeastern coast on Wednesday, leaving one crew member dead and six others missing, the coast guard said. The 286-ton tugboat was carrying eight crew members when it departed Wednesday morning to tow a merchant vessel in the waters off South Korea’s southeastern city of Busan, the coast guard said in a statement. After the tugboat overturned, one […]

NEW DELHI, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Authorities in Nepal have been working for days to find more survivors of the devastating flash flood that ravaged the Himalayan nation and neighbouring Tibet, killing over 1,000 people, with thousands more still missing.  Here is a look at the situation on the ground, a week after the disaster struck.        WHAT HAPPENED? An unprecedented deluge of ice, rock, mud and debris descended the mountains on […]

VILNIUS, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Estonia’s parliament elected constitutional lawyer Ulle Madise as the Baltic country’s next president on Wednesday, making her the second woman to hold the largely ceremonial post. Madise, 51, has been Estonia’s human rights ombudsman since 2015, and will hold the position of president for the next five years. Estonia, a nation of 1.4 million people bordering Russia, is among the strongest supporters of Ukraine and […]

By Nandita Bose, Humeyra Pamuk and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Top aides to President Donald Trump are pushing to keep the Iran war from escalating before November’s midterm elections to staunch Republican electoral losses, four people familiar with the discussions said, a strategy that is already under strain as the United States and Iran resume their back-and-forth attacks. White House officials will consider ramping up military action after […]

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) – After opening the door to higher interest rates last week, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has to decide how to follow through with actions the public and investors will see as both consistent with his own words and independent of President Donald Trump’s wishes. Failing those tests could be a blow to the new Fed chief’s credibility. Passing them may mean […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Tesla is set to hold an event for its purpose-built robotaxi Cybercab in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, amid much fanfare, as well as questions about regulatory hurdles and safety of the technology. Here are some details: • The Cybercab is a two-seater with butterfly doors and no steering wheel or pedals and is Tesla’s first vehicle designed purely for autonomy. Some test versions on U.S. […]