By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Britain’s Northern Ireland minister will on Monday meet residents who blocked a Protestant parade from marching through a Catholic area of a Northern Irish town, and hopes to find a compromise to reduce tension. A local lawmaker…
(Corrects three to five men in paragraph 2) By Toby Shepheard FAIRFORD, England, Sept 28 (Reuters) – British police were questioning five men on Monday on suspicion of explosives and terrorism offences after they were detained near an air base that has been used by…
By Makiko Yamazaki, Takaya Yamaguchi and Leika Kihara TOKYO, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Japan’s top currency diplomat Atsushi Mimura said on Monday markets should take at face value the “very clear” message Tokyo and Washington delivered last week on the yen, signalling his resolve to…
MILAN, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Flights at Italy’s Catania airport will remain suspended on Monday for a third consecutive day after volcanic ash emissions from Mount Etna disrupted operations, the Sicilian airport’s operator said. All flight operations at the airport, Italy’s fifth-busiest by passenger traffic,…
(Refiles to fix typo in headline, add missing word in last paragraph) STOCKHOLM, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Swedish Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson said on Monday she would tell the speaker of parliament that she was unable to form a government in the current situation,…
MADRID, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Protesters on Monday began a third day camped outside the administration of the Madrid region to object to the eviction of an octogenarian and demand stronger protection for tenants in the face of a lack of housing and soaring rents.…
By Tim Hepher and Giulia Segreti PARIS, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Airbus and Italy’s Leonardo are investigating a glitch at a privately held coatings firm that triggered a quality alert affecting 500 of the planemaker’s best-selling A321neo jets, people familiar with the matter said. The…
NEW DELHI, Sept 28 (Reuters) – The Supreme Court of India on Monday pushed for accountability over a recent spate of rape cases in the national capital and neighbouring districts, saying they reflected a “failure of law enforcement”, local media reported. • Hundreds of students…
By Nick Carey, Gilles Guillaume and Kalea Hall LONDON/PARIS/DETROIT, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Western automakers are chasing a defence spending boom as a way to sell more vehicles and make use of underemployed factories, though executives say military work will not make up for slowing…
By Kyu-seok Shim and Hyun Young Yi SEOUL, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Two North Korean soldiers captured while fighting for Russia against Ukraine are now in South Korea, raising questions over how they will be investigated, protected and resettled, and the legal basis for their…
