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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 […]

GENEVA (AP) — Police say five people have died and 40 others were injured after a Dutch tour bus slammed into a roadside crash barrier and overturned in eastern Switzerland. The bus, with 45 people on board, overturned Thursday afternoon between the villages of Susch and Zernez in the Alpine canton of Graubuenden. Three people remained in serious condition at hospital, police said. Prosecutors and police were investigating what led […]

By Keshav SinghChundawat Sept 11 (Reuters) – Australian stocks ended Friday at a more than two-month low, as miners led by BHP lost on weaker commodity prices, while a surge in oil prices over the week heightened inflation concerns and kept investors on edge. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index fell 0.9% to 8,741.20 points, its lowest closing level since July 2. It lost 2.1% in the week, its steepest drop […]

By Rocky Swift and Miho Uranaka TOKYO, Sept 11 (Reuters) – A plan by Kioxia to list shares in the United States could put the Japanese chipmaker back into the global investment spotlight, said the lead manager of a $14 billion AI-focused fund. Kioxia, whose 456% surge this year leads gains on the benchmark Nikkei 225 index, said in May it was making preparations to list American depositary Shares (ADS) […]

BEIJING, Sept 11 (Reuters) – China and India are arranging for a bilateral meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, China’s foreign ministry said on Friday, as Xi is set to travel to India this weekend to attend a BRICS summit. China is willing to approach bilateral ties “from a strategic and long-term perspective,” enhance communication and cooperation while properly managing differences, said Mao Ning, […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Myles Garrett finally acknowledged his knee injury is more serious than he had been letting on after his quiet debut for the Los Angeles Rams in their season-opening defeat in Australia. The reigning AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year made zero tackles and no impact on the game during the Rams’ 27-7 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Friday. Although Garrett missed much of […]

By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE, Sept 11 (Reuters) – The NFL’s first regular-season game in Australia will not be a one-off, Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Friday, but the league must ensure players feel properly looked after to build on a bumper debut in Melbourne. A crowd of 100,021 packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground to see the San Francisco 49ers beat the Los Angeles Rams 27-7, the seventh-biggest attendance for a […]

STOCKHOLM, Sept 11 (Reuters) – When Ulf Kristersson promised Holocaust survivor Hedi Fried his Moderates would never cooperate with the far-right Sweden Democrats back in 2018, the party was still treated as a political outcast by much of Sweden’s right wing. Four years later, the party’s support helped carry Kristersson into office, lending its votes to the three-party right-wing minority government he leads and propelling his journey of shifting Sweden’s […]