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Trump on Ireland: I would love to see Ireland unified. It's going to happen eventually. I think it would be a fantastic thing. How can it be bad?
Trump on the Falkland Islands: I don't know if the British would be willing to travel that far. It's very far away; you are talking about weeks by boat. I am sure I will be called into that potential disaster. I will probably be able to settle that.

Ambassadors broke up with no agreement on renewing the measures, and they have one sitting left before every restriction on the list runs out on its own.
Trump says Iran war will end ‘very soon’, oil prices will fall US President Donald Trump said the crisis over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz will “work out just fine”, as fears increase about regional security following swift Houthi advances in Yemen and reports of strikes near Saudi Arabia’s vital oil infrastructure. Speaking in Dublin after meeting Irish President Catherine Connolly, Trump was asked if he could help restore vital shipping traffic through the strategic waterway. “Every
Trump on Yemen: Houthis called us and they don't want to fight with us. They let us know they don't want us to go after them. They are letting most ships go through.
Reporter: Is Iran responsible for the attack on the East-West Pipeline? Trump: I think they are, probably they are.

US president is meeting politicians and business leaders, and playing golf Reuters has issued a series of alerts on Trump’s latest comments (he is currently meeting with Micheál Martin). Here is what the news agency has reported: On Iran: War will end very soon. Continue reading...
Reporter: What do you say to the people who say U.S. is facilitating genocide in Gaza? Trump: We put out the fire in Gaza. There is very little happening right now in Gaza. We facilitated a peace of kind in Gaza.
Reporter: On your call with MBS, what is the U.S. going to do with Saudi Arabia? Trump: Everything's going to work out fine and dandy.
Reporter: When will the war in Iran end? Trump: I think very soon, probably right after midterms. They are trying to hold out as long as they can to complicate the election.

The Cabinet of Ministers plans to establish a special fund to insure businesses against war-related risks, although funding it may require a 1-percentage-point increase in value-added tax (VAT).
Yemen's Houthis continue showing off captured equipment from the western coast takeover including US-supplied gear that the Saudis had sent to their allies who collapsed.
EU ambassadors on Friday once again failed to extend the sanctions against Russia; the next meeting will be held on Monday, September 14, one day before the sanctions expire, Rikard Jozwiak, editor of the European section of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, said on the social network X.

US sells Argentina four refurbished Black Hawk helicopters in a $140 million deal. The timing is notable. It comes weeks after Trump told he wouldn't back the UK if Argentina moved on the Falklands, saying "your country was not there to help me," a reference to Britain not joining the US-Israeli assault on Iran.
By Sarita Chaganti Singh, Shivangi Acharya and Saurabh Sharma NEW DELHI, Sept 12 (Reuters) - TheBRICS group of emerging economies has agreed on a joint declaration, sources told Reuters on Saturday, hours before its leaders began a summit in New Delhi, aiming to boost the bloc's global clout. The summit, hoping to bridge divisions between members Iran and the United Arab Emirates over the Gulf conflict, is being held as theUnited States and Iran resume tit-for-tat strikes in their six-month-old
By Sarita Chaganti Singh, Shivangi Acharya and Saurabh Sharma NEW DELHI, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Iran and the United Arab Emirates signed up to a joint statement from the BRICS group of nations that called for restraint in the Middle East war on Saturday, in what was seen as a sign of diplomatic progress between the countries divided by the war. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also met the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi on the sidelines of the first day of the New Delhi summit, in the countries' high

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Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, Lula's top rival in next month's election, is under investigation for alleged corruption linked to financing a biopic about his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro.

The latest developments on the ground in Yemen are so significant that their seriousness cannot be understated. Iran now has an arm on the vital Bab Al-Mandab Strait through its proxy, the Houthi militia, which has seized the port of Mokha and the Yemeni islands in the southern Red Sea. The Houthis’ aggressive military activities leading up to the attack pointed to one of three possibilities: either they were targeting Saudi areas bordering Yemen to the north, oil facilities in Yemen’s Marib p
The Russia’s Defense Ministry added that two attempts by Ukrainian assault teams to break out of the encirclement near Sliznyovo and Gogino had been thwarted
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Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops fired on the border areas of the Chernihiv region 48 times; an elderly woman was injured.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was willing to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Miami, but the Kremlin said it had not yet made a decision on whether Putin would attend, demanding instead that Zelensky come to Russia for talks. Putin has repeatedly rejected offers for a face-to-face meeting with the Ukrainian leader aimed at brokering an end to the war.

Hong Kong police are investigating the deaths of a couple in their seventies after their bodies were discovered inside their home in Ma On Shan. Police said officers were alerted at around 8pm on Friday to a strange odour emanating from a flat in Heng Yat House at Heng On Estate. Firefighters forced entry to the flat, discovering a 72-year-old man and his 74-year-old wife lying in the living room, police said, adding the couple were pronounced dead at the scene. No suicide note was found, and...
Two persons were killed in an attack on an industrial enterprise in Kryvy Rih, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Hanzha said Saturday morning.

Punjab Senior Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb on Saturday defended Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz amid recent criticism of her use of a government jet for a private visit and her remarks on the province facing a terrorism threat from neighbouring provinces. “The issue these days is not the plane or Maryam Nawaz’s statement; the real issue is with Maryam Nawaz’s performance and her rising popularity,” Aurangzeb said in a post on X. She said that it had already been made clear that CM Maryam would bear

TOKYO: Japan strongly condemned the attacks by the Houthis on Saudi Arabia and reiterated its call on them to refrain from escalating the situation both inside and outside Yemen. “The Houthis’ continued military attacks have resulted in numerous casualties, including among civilians. Japan renews its strong denunciation of the recent series of attacks by the Houthis. Attacks on civilians and civilian facilities, as well as any actions that impede the free and safe navigation of vessels, cannot b
Reporter: Irish are paying 40% more for home heating oil than they were before the war. What's your message? Trump: When they open the North Sea, your prices are going to go way down.
Reporter: Are you concerned with Saudi Arabia and movement in the strait? Trump: Everything will work out just fine.

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Ukraine's defence forces have confirmed that they attacked the Tolyattikauchuk plant in Russia's Samara Oblast on the night of 11-12 September. The plant supplies Russia's military-industrial complex.
Trump on Xi and China: People say he spies on us but we spy on him too. We are good at it also. We get along. The fact we get along is a good thing. We do well with China now.
Trump: If China wanted to come in and open a plant to build their cars here, I would be okay with it. Japan does it. But they hire our people. The big thing is they hire our people. In fact, they use our people.

The 'War on Terror' gave far-right Islamophobia legitimacy, reach and electoral force.
NEW DELHI, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The BRICS group of countries has agreed on a joint declaration, which is unlikely to name any country but will condemn unilateral war by any country, four sources told Reuters on Saturday. The bloc, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, is holding its annual summit in New Delhi this weekend.
Zelensky: There is no army like Ukraine’s in Europe right now. Of course, for now — Europe is developing and will receive information, technologies, and experience from us through partnership. But there is no such army anywhere in Europe.

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Zelensky: This is a very costly process for the Russian Federation. Of course, it is costly for Ukraine as well. War is expensive, but Russia is losing a huge number of people, completely disproportionate, certainly compared with Ukrainian losses.
Zelensky: Ukraine is capable of responding to Russia’s operations — any operation. Russia knows that if they strike — and they are preparing to strike our energy system in winter — Russia will receive the same in return. If they create blackouts for us, we will try to respond in a worthy way.

Russia attacks have targeted cargo vessels, steel plants and industrial facilities across Ukraine.