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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was acquitted Friday in a case related to a marine’s drowning death in a rare reprieve in one of the criminal cases brought against him following his ouster for imposing martial law. The independent counsel’s indictment had alleged Yoon deliberately appointed former Defense Minister Lee Jong-Sup as his ambassador to Australia to help him leave the country and […]

By Maria Tsvetkova and Joseph Ax NEW YORK, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Twenty-five years after the deadliest attack on U.S. soil, Americans will pause on Friday to commemorate the nearly 3,000 people killed when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania — and to wrestle with the legacy of September 11. The attacks shaped generations of Americans who lived through the day or […]

By Emily Green, David Shepardson, Nora Eckert and Kalea Hall MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Mexico and the United States are racing to reach a bilateral trade deal before the U.S. midterm elections in less than eight weeks, according to six sources in both countries familiar with the talks, an effort made more urgent by the collapse of Canadian negotiations with Washington. “We both want to reach a deal […]

By Nandita Bose and Nathan Layne DALLAS, Sept 11 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump used the Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention this week to make a risky appeal to voters: treat November’s midterm elections as a referendum on him. Trump urged voters to “pretend that I’m on the ballot” during the two-day gathering that kicked off what Republicans hope will be a Trump-focused campaign aimed at galvanizing the party’s base […]

By Bo Erickson and Dawn Kopecki NEW YORK, Sept 11 (Reuters) – The two biggest Republican money players in the 2026 midterm elections – U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk – have finally turned on the spigot with less than eight weeks to go before Election Day.     With Republicans facing the prospect of losing control of at least one chamber of Congress, and polling showing Democrats more motivated to […]

VIENNA, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Austria’s foreign ministry said on Friday it had “encouraging news” about an Austrian woman in her 70s taken hostage in 2025 in Niger, where she had lived for years, but it cautioned that the process of releasing her was not yet complete. The woman, identified by Austrian authorities as Eva G, was kidnapped in the desert town of Agadez in central Niger in January 2025. […]

Sept 11 (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures bounced back as oil prices cooled on Friday and investors pinned their hopes on the consumer inflation report to end a rough week on a positive note. Oracle jumped nearly 7% premarket after topping estimates for quarterly results late Thursday, which reassured shareholders that its AI investments were generating returns. Nvidia rose 0.9%. Fluctuating interest rate expectations have left the market backdrop […]

By Mohammed Ghobari ADEN, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on Friday reached the strategic island of Perim in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, four Yemeni government sources told Reuters, potentially tightening their grip on one of the world’s vital shipping routes and further increasing the threat to energy markets in the widening Middle East war.  Earlier, two sources from the Saudi-backed, internationally recognised Yemeni government said its forces had […]

CAIRO (AP) — Iran’s government on Friday called for an end to Saudi Arabia’s blockade of Yemen and the immediate resumption of talks, in its first public statement since Iran-backed Houthi rebels entered a key Yemeni port and intensified their threat to a key global shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement carried by the state-run IRNA news agency, Iran’s foreign ministry said Yemen’s sovereignty must be […]