STOCKHOLM, Sept 13 - Swedes vote in an election on Sunday that will either bring a far-right party into government for the first time or shift the country back towards the liberalism it has long been known for.
As he heads into a high-stakes summit in Washington in September with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with AI safety as a top issue, US President Donald Trump is sticking with a hands-off approach.
Ukrainian rescuers working at the site of a Russian air strike on a residential building in Odesa, southern Ukraine, on Sept 12.
OpenAI founder Sam Altman said that the company going public now would be “ill-advised”.
Sept 12 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff was quoted as saying on Saturday that Kyiv was preparing for the resumption in October of three-sided talks aimed at resolving the more than 4-1/2-year-old war with Russia.
People protesting against Germany’s far-right AfD party in Berlin on Sept 12, after the party won the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt by a landslide on Sept 6.
Air traffic in Brussels was disrupted for half an hour on Sept 11, officials said on Sept 12, after a drone was spotted.
KYIV, Sept 12 - Ukraine is bracing for a brutal winter as intensified Russian attacks on the country's infrastructure and key export industries compound a deepening budget crisis, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday.
KYIV, Sept 12 - Russian air strikes in several Ukrainian regions on Saturday killed six people, injured dozens and damaged residential buildings and infrastructure across the country, officials said.
AI brings serious risks, said Anthropic chief Dario Amodei, in a post on his personal website.
Police arresting an anti-immigration protester in the city of Portsmouth, southern England, on Sept 12.
Three US Army soldiers were killed in the Iranian attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan in July 2026.
BUDAPEST, Sept 12 - Hungary's government will change legislation passed in 2020 by Viktor Orban's former government that had effectively banned gay adoption, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Saturday.
Sept 12 - A meeting between Iran and Gulf states planned for Monday in Oman will be a chance to discuss issues including the Strait of Hormuz, but is not expected to yield a signed agreement over the blockaded waterway, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday.
WASHINGTON, Sept 12 - A lightning offensive by the Iran-aligned Houthis has put the militants in a position to control a crucial Middle East waterway, creating a major new problem for U.S. President Donald Trump as his war with Iran grinds on in its seventh month.
Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces firing a tank during what they say are clashes with Iran-aligned Houthis.
TLAOLA, Mexico, Sept 12 - Nestled in the lush green mountains of Central Mexico, next to a sparsely traveled gravel road, few people had reason to wander close enough to hear the loud, mechanical whirring of a clandestine cryptocurrency farm.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is hoping for “results” if and when he meets with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in December.