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By Hanna Rantala VENICE, Sept 6 (Reuters) – South Korean director Lee Chang-dong returned to the big screen on Sunday after an eight-year hiatus with Venice Film Festival contender “Possible Love”, revisiting a divisive labour conflict that shook his home country. Lee’s last film “Burning” was released in 2018 ​and he said the lengthy gap between films had allowed him to reflect on ‌his responsibilities as a filmmaker.

By Adnan Abidi BETRAWATI, Nepal, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Believing she had perished in Nepal’s deadly floods, the family of Chandika Kumari Shrestha started the ritual of mourning the elderly woman’s death. Ten days later, rescuers found her alive inside her ​collapsed home in the devastated Betrawati village, where she had survived in ‌a narrow pocket of air amid water and mud. “The four-storey house was swept (away) by the floods and the house was left in the middle of a quicksand.

Sept 6 (Reuters) – FIFA president Gianni Infantino remains committed to standing for re-election amid renewed opposition to his candidacy ​after a botched plan to sell ‌a stake in FIFA competitions to private investors, a spokesperson for the global soccer body said on Sunday.

LISBON, Sept 6 (Reuters) – At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren and ​teenagers, were killed when ‌a bus plunged into a ravine on Fogo, one of Cape Verde’s islands in the ‌Atlantic ​Ocean off the ⁠coast of West ⁠Africa, national news agency Inforpress reported on Sunday. The crash occurred on a mountain road ​in northern Fogo late on Saturday, when the ⁠bus veered ⁠off the road and ​plunged about 30 metres into ​a steep ravine, it said.

By Samia Nakhoul ISTANBUL, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Six months after a conflict that rattled markets and pushed the Gulf to the brink of a wider war, the tide may be turning against Iran as Washington unleashes an unprecedented economic offensive to achieve what military force could not. After years of surviving sanctions, Tehran is now confronting one of the harshest squeezes in the Islamic Republic’s history, according to Iranian insiders and regional sources.

DUBAI, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Iran said it will step up efforts to tackle problems created by the U.S. sanctions that are crippling its economy, while a senior Iranian official warned of a “painful response” if it comes under further attack. Six months after U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran, the war appears to be at a stalemate. A preliminary ceasefire accord reached in June has unravelled and little progress has been made in diplomatic efforts to ​get the peace process back on track.

By Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ruled out snap elections on Sunday a day after announcing a string of tax cuts ​and wage hikes, as he seeks to recover lost ‌ground in opinion polls ahead of a general election due next year.

MOSCOW, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday that the ​accusations levelled at Moscow ‌by the West that it was involved in the drone incident at Germany’s Leipzig airport were, “by and large, ‌the ​start of a ⁠real war,” state ⁠news agency TASS reported. “All these statements by Merz about making Germany the leading military power ​in Europe once again – they are being put into ⁠practice.

By Max Hunder and Anna Voitenko KYIV, Sept 6 (Reuters) – U.S. peace envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Sunday as the Trump administration renewed its push to end Russia’s four-and-a-half-year war in Ukraine. Kushner and Witkoff travelled from Moscow, where they held three hours of talks with Russian President ​Vladimir Putin on Saturday but did not appear to secure a breakthrough in the conflict.

MOSCOW, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on ​Sunday that Moscow ‌has not ruled out a trilateral meeting between the presidents of Russia, the U.S. ‌and ​China has ⁠not been ruled ⁠out, state news agency TASS reported. However, before moving on to the actual ​preparations for the meeting, it is necessary ⁠to understand what ⁠its agenda will ​be, Ryabkov said.