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US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Wednesday called for G20 major economies to refrain from coercive actions on food trade, tackle industrial overcapacity and re-examine the prevailing post-World War Two tariff system.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday Israel will get to the "root" of the co-pilot who engaged in a foiled attempt to crash an Israel-bound ‌flydubai flight and that Israel will "possibly" be participating in the probe into the incident.

New Zealand's Parliament was dissolved on Thursday, marking the official start of campaigning for next month's national election, which is shaping ‌up to be a tight contest between the ruling centre-right coalition and a Labour-led left bloc.

A US immigration judge ruled the US government can deport Palestinian American Salah ‌Sarsour, who is the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque and a US permanent resident, under a Cold War-era law.

The US National Nuclear Security Administration conducted a "subsurface, non-nuclear chemical high-explosive experiment" on Wednesday that the ‌Energy Department said aimed to improve the United States' ability to detect low-yield nuclear explosions.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Indian pilot Smit Machchhar for saving passengers after he was stabbed by his colleague in an alleged attempt to crash a flydubai plane on Wednesday.

Swiss glaciers are shrinking rapidly after suffering one of their worst years of ice loss during ‌a record-breaking European heatwave.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced the creation of a new military command that would be dedicated to building and providing ‌autonomous and robotic capabilities across the US military.

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he discussed the release of ‌political prisoners with Chinese President Xi Jinping when the two leaders met last week.

Ukraine is urging the United States to impose sanctions on several Russian entities that it says are helping develop Moscow's Rassvet satellite network as a domestic alternative to SpaceX's Starlink, its acting ambassador said ‌on Wednesday.

Portugal's parliament approved on Wednesday, in the first reading, a contentious rental ‌market overhaul aimed to speed up evictions and end rent controls on new leases in what the centre-right government hopes will encourage ⁠landlords to put more homes on the market.

At least seven people were ‌killed and four wounded after a bus was ⁠targeted by gunfire on Misyaf Bridge in Homs, a source in Syria's Homs ‌health ⁠directorate told state news agency SANA.

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has done "a very bad job" of explaining his economic record as his job approval rating sags under the weight of high gasoline prices ahead of the November midterm ‌elections.

Poland will deploy new rules of engagement to counter threats in its airspace from the beginning of October, Polish Defence ‌Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Wednesday during a press briefing.

Rwanda had held preliminary discussions with some EU member states about potentially hosting facilities for migrants transferred from those countries, two European Parliament lawmakers said on Wednesday, citing discussions with Rwandan officials.

A helicopter carrying six people crashed in Zimbabwe's Marondera rural area, east of Harare, ‌on Wednesday, killing all on board, government spokesperson Nick Mangwana said on X.

Papal envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi discussed humanitarian issues in the Ukraine war in talks with Russian officials and visited Ukrainian prisoners of war, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Slovakia's main ruling party Smer-SSD said on Wednesday that maintaining the government's majority required a large effort and called on partners to keep internal disputes ‌out of policy.

Israel is set to ramp up security checks on pilots flying into the country, a spokesperson for the prime minister's office said, after it said a co-pilot on a flydubai flight to Tel Aviv had stabbed the pilot and attempted to ‌crash the plane.

When flydubai flight FZ1073 suddenly plunged from over 30,000 feet on Wednesday, passenger Almog Italie said it felt like the plane was passing through "massive turbulence" before he ‌realised a life-or-death struggle had unfolded in the cockpit.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited a military command post near the eastern frontline on ‌Wednesday and praised what he said were gains against Russian forces during a counteroffensive operation.

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Wednesday eased penalties under a cybercrime decree that human rights groups had said was designed to muzzle dissent.

More than 270 Catholic clerics sexually abused nearly 1,000 children across three Massachusetts dioceses over decades, according to an investigative report the state's attorney general ‌released on Wednesday.

Russia has warned NATO that it would be ready to resort to nuclear weapons if the Western alliance tried to cut off or attack the Russian region of Kaliningrad.

A US ceasefire proposal to pause Sudan's civil war could push the country towards a Libya-style partition in its current form, a top adviser to Sudan's ‌army-led authorities told Reuters, in some of the strongest criticism by a Sudanese official of the plan so far.

The Russian government said on Wednesday it was drawing up urgent measures to control the population of brown bears that has spiralled out of control in some regions, with at least 22 people killed in attacks.

A Turkish court has ordered access to the website and social media accounts of independent news portal T24 to be blocked over content deemed "LGBT propaganda", the ‌Justice Ministry said on Wednesday.

Factories in Europe producing arms for Ukraine are legitimate and potential military targets for Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman ‌Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Wednesday there was no imminent threat to NATO ‌territory from Russia, in response to a warning issued by Moscow over the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

Saudi Arabia turned down a request by Israel to allow its planes to bring back Israeli ‌passengers from a flydubai flight that made an emergency landing in the kingdom, two security sources said on Wednesday.

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and France's President Emmanuel Macron expressed enthusiasm on Wednesday for Britain rejoining the EU, and agreed Europe must strengthen its trade defences ‌against China.

A Paris court on Wednesday found six men ‌guilty of manslaughter over the drowning of more than 30 people in the ⁠Channel five years ago, the worst disaster on record involving migrants in the narrow seaway separating France and Britain.

The Swedish government should apologise to the indigenous Sami people for past injustices and Sami interests should be given stronger consideration against mining and wind power projects, a government-appointed commission ‌said on Wednesday.

Spain's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday it had alerted prosecutors to an Amnesty International report alleging the military tortured or mistreated migrants in Ceuta, and ordered an internal probe into whether any personnel ‌were to blame.

NATO is a defensive alliance and Russia should ‌stop nuclear threats, NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Wednesday, in response to Russia's ⁠nuclear warnings to NATO over the Kaliningrad exclave.

Italy's Democratic Party did not take part in a parliamentary committee vote on Wednesday on a highly contested bill against antisemitism, highlighting divisions on the left ‌over a law seen as potentially curbing criticism of Israel.

A French and German delegation travelled this month to Brasilia, where intelligence officials briefed them on alleged US and Russian interference before Brazil's election, according to sources and documents seen by Reuters.

Thousands of protesters camped out on Madrid's main square and in other Spanish cities demanded on Wednesday that parliament swiftly approve ‌new measures to protect tenants and curb the country's acute housing crisis.

Britain's MI5 spy agency issued an unprecedented alert on Wednesday to warn that a Chinese organisation was involved in funding academic research into topics such as AI on behalf ‌of Beijing's state security service.

Sweden will from October deploy Gripen fighter jets to Poland as part of ‌a NATO airspace surveillance mission, the Nordic country's government said on Wednesday.

An Israeli official said the plane transmitted emergency signals after the pilots got into a physical altercation with each other. The flight from the United Arab Emirates to Israel was later diverted to Saudi Arabia where it landed safely.

Romania's Prime Minister-designate ‌Siegfried Muresan failed to win a ⁠vote of confidence on Wednesday, a parliamentary vote count showed, ‌extending ⁠a political crisis that is threatening ⁠the country's investment grade ⁠rating.

The British Museum is facing legal action over its Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, with lawyers representing a blind man alleging the museum is breaching equalities ‌laws by not providing audio-described tours.

France and Britain are in talks to end their "one in, one out" migration ‌deal, a French interior ministry source said on Wednesday.

Prince Harry's children have been stalked by "certain European paparazzi" while at school in the English countryside, his spokesperson said on Wednesday, describing their conduct as an "extraordinarily reckless" intrusion into the family's privacy.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for efforts to achieve full-year economic targets while reiterating firm ‌opposition to Taiwan independence and external interference, according to a speech he delivered at a reception marking the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People's Re...

Burundi has agreed to join a clutch of other African nations in receiving migrants from other countries deported from the US under President Donald ‌Trump's hardline immigration policy.

An alliance of India's opposition parties said on Wednesday it would launch protests to "save democracy" after a newspaper report ‌said the Election Commission pushed large-scale voter list changes despite two commissioners questioning the process.

The Republican chair of the congressional committee focused on China is calling on the Trump administration to scrutinize US ally South Korea's warming ties with China, which he said pose "significant risks" to the United States.

Cuban housewife Yuamilka Hechavarria was asleep last Tuesday when water rushed into the cistern of the crumbling tenement where she lives in old Havana.