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By Rachel More and Christina Amann DRESDEN, Germany, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s workers, management and political leaders must work together to minimise the impact of job and capacity cuts at Europe’s biggest automaker and boost its competitiveness, the state leader of Saxony said. State premier Michael Kretschmer, a member of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative CDU party, is under pressure to shield auto jobs in Saxony, a poorer part of […]

DHADING, Nepal (AP) — Workers shoveled thick mud from a flood-ravaged power station in central Nepal, trying to revive a key node that supplies electricity to more than 20,000 people. But as they cleared debris from equipment buried by last week’s catastrophic floods, there was hope the plant would not simply be rebuilt in the same place, beside the river that destroyed it. In Nepal, up to 900 workers are […]

An Iranian drone was intercepted early Monday over United Arab Emirates territorial waters, the Defense Ministry said. The attack followed an exchange of fire between Iran and the United States on the weekend, which was the first significant military action in the war for more than a month. Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East. Full coverage can be found here. […]

GENEVA (AP) — A suspect has been arrested after a weekend shooting at a rave in northern Switzerland that left one person dead and five wounded, police said Monday. The 43-year-old Swiss citizen was detained shortly before 1 a.m. Monday, police in Aargau canton (state) said in a statement. They said that investigations into a possible motive are ongoing and that at present they believe the shooting was carried out […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Massachusetts Democrats will decide the latest head-to-head matchup between the party’s moderate and progressive wings in a state primary Tuesday, but this time, top progressives are backing the incumbent against a more moderate challenger. U.S. Sen. Ed Markey faces a competitive Democratic primary challenge from U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton in his bid for a third full term. The contest ties together two recurring themes in Democratic primaries […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — House lawmakers return to Washington on Monday with a short to-do list after five weeks back in their home districts. The first order of business is likely a vote on a stopgap spending bill designed to keep the federal government fully funded through early December, removing the possibility of a shutdown before the midterm elections. With election season getting underway, votes are also expected on measures designed […]

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Niger’s junta survived its most severe internal threat since seizing power in a 2023 coup when renegade soldiers staged a mutiny over the weekend, triggering a 24-hour standoff that ended with Russian intervention. The mostly young soldiers took some of their colleagues hostage at a strategic military base in the capital, Niamey, and fired shots near the presidential palace 12 kilometers (7 miles) away before being […]

BIDUR, Nepal (AP) — Rajendra Dawadi was inside his classroom when the school’s accountant rushed in with a warning: Floodwaters were racing through Nepal’s Trishuli Valley, tearing apart homes, bridges and entire villages. Then a teacher received another warning by phone. Moments later, a parent arrived to take her child home. The danger had not yet been confirmed, but Dawadi had little time to act. He rang the school bell […]

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Singaporean lawyer and diplomat who led an international conference that adopted the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a Myanmar activist whose group documents human rights atrocities and a former Bangladeshi teacher who has helped provide aid to her country’s poorest were named Monday as the winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards. Regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize and […]