Sept 12 (Reuters) - A plane belonging to Russia's Ural Airlines with 167 people aboard and flying from Sochi to Omsk made an emergency landing in western Siberia's Novosibirsk region, Russian agencies reported on Tuesday.

There were no immediate reports of injuries.

At a press conference, a Ural Airlines' director said that a hydraulics fault had been to blame.

LONDON/KYIV, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Ukraine's Antonov is expanding in drone making, a presentation by the country's umbrella defence group seen by Reuters shows, as it diversifies its core cargo plane business in response to Russia's invasion.

Drones made and adapted in Ukraine play a major part in the war and Antonov's previously unreported move is consistent with Ukraine's aim to be a global drone hub, boosted by investment in a sector that has grown dramatically since early 2022.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal lawsuits, cries for impeachment and outside protests.

Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said she would welcome a fight after announcing an emergency order to suspend the right to carry firearms in most public places around Albuquerque. That’s exactly what she’s getting.

Since she issued the 30-day public health order on Friday, a furor has rained down from gun owners, state Republican lawmakers and civil rights advocates. Even some in her own party questioned the move.

BEIJING, Sept 12 (Reuters) - China's economy is resilient and has not collapsed, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday, rejecting claims from the West that its economy is faltering and could cause wider problems.

Officials from countries including Australia and the United States have publicly raised concerns about the world's second-largest economy.

U.S. President Joe Biden called China's economic situation a "crisis" while Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said a slowing Chinese economy could in turn weigh on Australia's.

VLADIVOSTOK, September 12. /TASS/: Russia can’t stop hostilities if it’s repelling an enemy counteroffensive, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum.

TOKYO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Japan has appointed a serving government official to act as its de facto defence attache in Taiwan, four sources said, elevating security ties in a move likely to anger China, which claims the strategic, democratic island as its own.

BELGRADE, September 11. /TASS/: Serbia is independent in what concerns joining or not the anti-Russian sanctions and no decision on this matter can be imposed on it, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Snap checkpoints. Internet disruptions. University purges.

Iran’s theocracy is trying hard to both ignore the upcoming anniversary of nationwide protests over the country’s mandatory headscarf law and tamp down on any possibility of more unrest.

Yet the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini still reverberates across Iran. Some women are choosing to go without the headscarf, or hijab, despite an increasing crackdown by authorities.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 (NNN-Bernama) — The Malaysian Government’s initiative to empower digital technology in the agricultural sector through the eLadang pilot programme, or known as Digital Agriculture Technology (Digital AgTech), has attracted the attention of the European Union (EU)-ASEAN Business Council.

Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil mentioned this in a Facebook post after receiving a courtesy call from a council delegation, led by its executive director Chris Humphrey, Tuesday. 

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional lines in place as the state continues to fight a court order to create a second district where Black voters constitute a majority or close to it.

MOSCOW, September 12. /TASS/: The political instability in some African countries is a consequence of France and Great Britain losing their foothold there, Russian Ambassador at Large and chief of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum Secretariat Oleg Ozerov told TASS.

Commenting on Western media allegations that instability in African countries is linked with the recent Russia-Africa summit, he noted, "I think it is predominantly our Western partners who attribute this to us."

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- The UN humanitarian coordinator in Sudan condemned on Monday the recent deadly attacks on residential areas of Khartoum.

Clementine Nkweta-Salami, in a Tweet on X, formerly known as Twitter, said indiscriminate attacks which killed and wounded dozens of people in a market on Sunday "are completely unacceptable and violate international humanitarian law."