2025-09-21 17:36

DUBAI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - An Iranian official denied a state media report on Sunday that Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was to meet with officials from Britain, France and Germany in Vienna as sanctions over Tehran's nuclear programme loom again. Nournews had reported the talks, without giving a date. Sign up here. But an Iranian Foreign Ministry official told Reuters that was not the case, with Araqchi heading to New York, not Vienna. In a bid to avert the reimposition of sanctions on Tehran, Iranian and European ministers engaged in discussions last week , opens new tab but they did not yield breakthroughs, diplomats said. The three European nations launched a 30-day process at the end of August to reimpose U.N. sanctions. They set conditions for Tehran to meet during September to convince them to delay the so-called "snapback mechanism". The European trio has proposed a conditional delay of up to six months on the reimposition of sanctions on Iran. This is contingent upon Iran granting access to U.N. inspectors, who aim to verify and account for the substantial stockpile of enriched uranium. Additionally, Iran is expected to engage in negotiations with the United States. The status of Iran's enriched uranium reserves has remained uncertain since June, following the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites by Israel and the United States. The West says the advancement of Iran's nuclear programme goes beyond civilian needs, while Tehran says it wants nuclear energy only for peaceful purposes. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-european-officials-meet-vienna-sanctions-reimposition-looms-2025-09-21/

2025-09-21 16:14

JERUSALEM, Sept 21 (Reuters) - El Al Israel Airlines (ELAL.TA) , opens new tab said on Sunday its chief financial officer Yancale Shahar will retire in November after 19 years at the company. Israel's flag carrier said he will be succeeded by Gil Feldman, El Al's deputy CFO and head of economics, budget and business development division, effective December 1. Sign up here. In July, chief executive officer Dina Ben Tal Ganancia said she intends to step down by the end of 2025, after three and a half years in the position. With many foreign carriers halting flights to Tel Aviv since the Israel-Hamas war began in October 2023, El Al's profit has soared, as flights have been largely full while airfares have risen. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-el-al-airlines-cfo-retire-will-be-replaced-by-his-deputy-2025-09-21/

2025-09-21 14:26

Sept 21 (Reuters) - Iraq has increased oil exports following the gradual unwinding of voluntary production cuts under an OPEC+ agreement, the country's state oil marketer SOMO said on Sunday. Earlier this month, eight members of OPEC+ agreed to raise production from October by 137,000 barrels per day. OPEC+ has been increasing production since April after years of cuts to support the oil market. Sign up here. The increase in Iraqi exports is expected to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenues at current price levels, SOMO's director general Ali Nizar Al-Shatari told the Iraqi state news agency. He did not specify the size of the export rise, but said that an additional 200,000 barrels per day of production would boost government coffers. Iraq's oil exports averaged 3.38 million barrels per day in August, according to the oil ministry. SOMO expects September's average exports to range from 3.4 million to 3.45 million bpd. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said earlier this month that he hoped fellow producers would reconsider its oil export quota to better reflect its production capacity. Iraq, OPEC's biggest overproducer, is under pressure from the group to cut output to compensate for pumping above its agreed quota. Iraq was among countries that submitted plans in April to make further oil output cuts to compensate for pumping above agreed quotas. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/iraq-increases-oil-exports-sees-extra-revenues-state-oil-marketer-says-2025-09-21/

2025-09-21 13:46

Sept 21 (Reuters) - Sunday's Ligue 1 game between Olympique Marseille and champions Paris St Germain has been postponed by a day due to forecasts of heavy rain and storms, hosts Marseille said in a statement. An "orange alert" for storm and rain-flooding has been placed in effect since midday, the prefect of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region, where the city of Marseille is located, said in a statement on social media. Sign up here. "Rainfall could reach 70 to 90 mm in some areas and locally 120 mm in a few hours," the prefect said on Sunday. "These weather forecasts raise fears of heavy rainfall across the region between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., i.e. at the start and end of the match, which was expected to attract nearly 70,000 supporters to the Orange-Velodrome stadium." The match will now kick off on Monday at 2000 local time. "The club informs its supporters that tickets purchased for the match scheduled for this evening will remain valid for the rescheduled match tomorrow," Marseille said. https://www.reuters.com/sports/soccer/marseille-v-psg-called-off-due-rain-flood-alert-2025-09-21/

2025-09-20 20:56

Sept 20 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has canceled the USDA’s annual food insecurity survey, ending a decades-long effort to track how many Americans struggle to access enough food, the Agriculture Department said on Saturday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the Household Food Security Report had become "overly politicized" and was no longer necessary, though the 2024 edition will still be released in October; the 2025 survey will not be conducted, the USDA said in a statement. Sign up here. The cancellation of the report, which has been conducted for 30 years, comes amid rising food insecurity and recent cuts to federal food assistance programs, including tighter work requirements for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients. The USDA said it will continue to have access to more "timely and accurate data" and claimed the annual report was "rife with inaccuracies, wrong metrics, zero accountability and a massive drive for bigger and larger government programs." The Wall Street Journal first reported on the survey's cancellation. The White House did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cancels-usdas-annual-food-insecurity-survey-wsj-reports-2025-09-20/

2025-09-20 20:41

WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Flight operations at two Dallas-area airports returned to normal operations on Saturday as the Federal Aviation Administration detailed telecom failures by a telecommunications company that it said led to more than 2,000 flight disruptions. American Airlines (AAL.O) , opens new tab, the largest carrier at Dallas Fort Worth Airport, said more than 100,000 passengers were impacted following telecom issues that began on Friday around 2 p.m. CT and were not resolved until Saturday morning. Sign up here. American said it was forced to cancel 530 flights Friday, 160 flights Saturday, and had to divert another 65 flights that had been bound for Dallas. Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) , opens new tab, the largest carrier at Dallas Love Field, delayed more than 1,100 flights Friday, or a quarter of its operations, and more than 200 Saturday, but canceled only one flight, according to Southwest and FlightAware, which tracks flights. Southwest said it had 580 extreme delays on Friday. American, which also delayed more than 350 flights since Friday, warned there could be some additional operational impacts. The FAA said "multiple failures" of telecommunications data services provided by Frontier Communications (FYBR.O) , opens new tab led to the outage that impacted the FAA’s Dallas Terminal Radar Approach Control, which handles operations for both Dallas airports. Frontier has agreed to be acquired by Verizon Communications VZ.N, but the deal has not yet closed. "Oversight by L3Harris, an FAA contractor, failed to ensure that redundancies in the system functioned properly," the FAA said. A Frontier spokeswoman said a third-party contractor in Argyle, Texas, accidentally cut its fiber lines, impacting communication systems at the Dallas airports. "Our team worked overnight, closely coordinating with the FAA and the airports to stabilize the systems, and as a result the airports are up and running today," she said. American Airlines, in detailing the events that led to the flight disruptions, said two cut fiber optic cables on Friday impacted data supporting FAA radars, radio frequencies and computer systems. American Airlines' chief operating officer, David Seymour, said in an email to employees that efforts to restore service by L3Harris (LHX.N) , opens new tab and Frontier did not move fast enough and said the airline was working to determine the financial impact of the outage. Seymour and the airline's CEO, Robert Isom, had a difficult time "reaching leadership at Frontier and L3Harris. We are extraordinarily disappointed that neither provider seems to have any sense of urgency to resolve this matter," Seymour said in the email. An L3Harris spokesperson said a fault in the local telecommunication carrier’s switching gear and a fiber cut impacted flights. "L3Harris immediately assisted with troubleshooting impacted circuits and critical services were restored to the FAA," the company said. "We will continue working with the telecom provider and FAA to completely restore services to their full resiliency." The FAA has faced an unending series of tech issues in recent years highlighting the fragile state of the aging U.S. air traffic control system. Congress in July awarded $12.5 billion to overhaul the system. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/dallas-airports-return-normal-faa-details-problem-that-caused-outage-2025-09-20/