Voting envelopes are opened as the counting of votes takes place at the polling station at Kockums Fritid in Malmö during Sweden's general election on September 13, 2026 in Stockholm. Photo: Johan Nilsson / AFP / Lehtikuva

Sweden’s parliamentary election remained on a knife edge late on Sunday, with the opposition holding a projected one-seat majority over Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s governing bloc. SVT forecast 175 seats for the opposition and 174 for the right, the minimum margin needed for control of the 349-seat Riksdag.

With most districts counted, the two blocs were separated by only a fraction of a percentage point.

A fighter loyal to the Houthi authorities, brandishes his weapon during a rally to recruit more fighters, in Sanaa on September 10, 2026. Photo: Mohammed Huwais / AFP / Lehtikuva

Yemen’s Houthi movement has reached Perim Island at the mouth of the Red Sea after seizing the port of Mocha, extending an offensive that has brought its forces to one of the main shipping routes between Asia and Europe.

Four Yemeni government sources told Reuters on Friday that Houthi forces had reached Perim, also known as Mayyun, which lies inside the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

Smoke as it rises from the site of an Israeli-controlled explosion in the nearby village of al Mansouri on September 5, 2026. Israeli strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon late on September 4, 2026, killed at least three people and injured 23, the Lebanese health ministry said. Photo: Kawnat Haju / AFP / Lehtikuva

Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon killed at least 11 people in Kfar Remman early on Monday, according to Lebanese state media, as a new wave of attacks hit residential areas and medical workers near territory illegally occupied by Israeli forces. The attacks followed days of fighting that has placed fresh pressure on a US-backed ceasefire framework.

Lebanon’s National News Agency said nine people, including two children, died when an Israeli strike hit a three-storey residential building in Kfar Remman in the Nabatieh district. Five others were wounded.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L), India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) and China's President Xi Jinping (R) stand with other leaders for a family photo during the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on September 13, 2026. (Photo by Alexander KAZAKOV / POOL / AFP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping has placed the idea of BRICS nations acting as “pioneers” at the centre of his message to the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, setting out a programme based on innovation, peace, exchanges between civilisations and reform of global governance.

Addressing the first session of the summit on 12 September, Xi said the BRICS cooperation mechanism had developed over two decades into what he described as the world’s most influential platform for cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries.

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde addresses a press conference after a meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Berlin on September 10, 2026. Photo: John Macdougall / AFP / Lehtikuva

The European Central Bank raised its key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 2.5% on Thursday as rising oil and gas prices pushed eurozone inflation further above its 2% target. The increase marks the ECB’s second rate rise in three months as the war involving Iran disrupts energy supplies and raises costs across Europe.

The ECB also raised its main refinancing rate to 2.65% and its marginal lending facility rate to 2.9%.

Members and supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party react after the first exit poll results were announced on public television at the AfD's election party following Saxony-Anhalt's state elections in Magdeburg, eastern Germany on September 6, 2026. Photo: Ronny Hartmann / AFP / Lehtikuva

Germany’s Alternative for Germany has won the state election in Saxony-Anhalt with about 44% of the vote, putting the party in first place by a wide margin and raising the prospect of a far-right state government for the first time in postwar Germany. Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU finished second on about 18%.

Exit polls and early projections showed the AfD more than doubling its 23.7% share from the 2021 election.

Firefighters spraying water at a train carriage damaged by a drone strike near the border with Poland on September 13, 2026. Photo: Ukrainian State Emergency Service / AFP / Lehtikuva

A Russian drone struck the locomotive of a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train about two kilometres from Poland on Sunday during a mass attack on Ukraine that killed at least six people and injured dozens. Ukrainian authorities said passengers had been evacuated before the strike and no one aboard was hurt.

Ukraine’s state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia said its monitoring team detected the threat and issued an evacuation order about 15 minutes before the drone hit near Yahodyn in the Volyn region.

The casket of late King Harald V of Norway leaves the Royal Palace in a royal procession to the Cathedral in Oslo, Norway, on September 9, 2026. Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / Lehtikuva

Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Oslo on Wednesday for the funeral of King Harald V, bringing 13 days of national mourning to an end and marking the start of the reign of his son, King Haakon VIII.

Harald died on 28 August aged 89 after 35 years on the throne. More than 46,000 people had filed past his coffin during the days before the funeral.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) welcomes US special envoy Steve Witkoff (2nd R) and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner (L) prior to their talks in Moscow on September 5, 2026. Photo: Mikhail Metzel / Sputnik / AFP / Lehtikuva

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are due in Kyiv on Sunday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after spending more than three hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as Washington seeks a route towards ending the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin and White House described Saturday’s meeting in positive terms but disclosed few details.

The White House said the meeting covered “substantive plans for next steps” and said further details would emerge in the coming weeks.

A satellite image taken by Planet Labs PBC on September 11, 2026 shows a general view of an infrastructure site after it was damaged by fire southeast of Medina along the general route of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline (Petroline). Photo: Planet Labs / AFP / Lehtikuva

Saudi Arabia has shut a major oil pipeline after drone attacks originating in Iraq as Houthi forces seized Yemen’s Red Sea coast, putting two routes used for Gulf energy exports under pressure. The fighting has displaced about 46,000 people in Yemen and pushed oil above $100 a barrel.

The Saudi Energy Ministry said the East-West pipeline was stopped as a precaution after several drones struck sites in the Riyadh and Medina regions. Saudi authorities reported injuries and damage.

Screen grab from a handout video released by US Central Command on September 8, 2026, shows what the US military says is a strike on an Iranian tanker in the Gulf of Oman. Photo: US Central Command Public Affairs / AFP / Lehtikuva

The United States and Iran have exchanged attacks on oil tankers, naval vessels and military positions as fighting around the Strait of Hormuz pushed Brent crude futures to $100 a barrel on Wednesday.

US Central Command said American forces destroyed five Iranian crude carriers after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps twice tried to hit a US Navy warship with ballistic missiles over two days.

Migrants on a dinghy attempting to cross the English Channel off the coast between Berck and Merlimont, northern France. Photo: SNMS Berck sur Mer / AFP / Lehtikuva

Five European Union countries are seeking an agreement with a country outside the bloc to receive migrants who have no legal right to remain in the EU, as Denmark targets the end of 2027 for the first transfers. Germany, Austria, Greece, Denmark and the Netherlands agreed on steps towards establishing so-called return hubs.

The five governments, which refer to themselves as the Group of Five, want to reach an agreement with at least one partner country before the end of 2026.

Picture taken on May 27, 2025 shows Princess Astrid of Norway sitting in a wheelchair at the opening of the second part of the exhibition "At the King's Table - from tableware to contemporary ceramics" in the Queen Sonja KunstStall in Oslo. Two days after the burial of Norwegian King Harald V, his older sister, Princess Astrid, has died. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB / AFP / Lehtikuva

Norway’s Princess Astrid has died aged 94, two days after attending the funeral of her younger brother King Harald V, the Norwegian Royal House said on Friday. Her death came exactly two weeks after Harald died at Rikshospitalet in Oslo on 28 August.

Princess Astrid, King Harald’s elder sister and a member of the Norwegian royal family for more than nine decades, died on 11 September.

Israeli flags flutter as a new Jewish settler outpost is erected on land belonging to Palestinians from the nearby village of Hajjah, west of the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus on September 7, 2026. Photo: Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP / Lehtikuva

Finland has joined 11 countries backing trade restrictions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, as Britain announced an import ban and sanctions targeting settlement expansion.

The foreign ministers of Finland, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK issued a joint statement on Tuesday. The countries said they intend to introduce national measures, support European restrictions or consider further action against trade in settlement goods.

Onlookers watch as Ukrainian rescue personnel work to extinguish a fire in the headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) following an air attack in Kyiv on September 4, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: Maryke Vermaak / AFP / Lehtikuva

A Russian drone struck the headquarters of Ukraine’s Security Service in central Kyiv on Friday, injuring at least 12 people and prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to order a retaliatory response.

The aircraft hit the SBU building on Volodymyrska Street, opposite St Sophia Cathedral, according to Zelenskyy. He said the drone had targeted the office of SBU head Oleksandr Poklad.