Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi walks off the stage after delivering a speech to the nation over the Rakhine and Rohingya situation, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

 

Mexico

 

Desperate rescue workers scrabbled through rubble in a floodlit search for dozens of children feared buried under a Mexico City school, one of hundreds of buildings wrecked by the country’s most lethal earthquake in a generation. The magnitude 7.1 shock killed at least 217 people, nearly half of them in the capital, 32 years to the day after a devastating 1985 quake and less than two weeks after a powerful tremor killed nearly 100 people in the south of the country. 

 

In pictures: Earthquake rattles Mexcio City

 

Politics

 

U.S. President Donald Trump is using money donated to his re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee to pay for his lawyers in the probe of alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. 

 

The Trump administration is preparing to make it easier for American gun makers to sell small arms, including assault rifles and ammunition, to foreign buyers, according to senior U.S. officials. Aides to Trump are completing a plan to shift oversight of international non-military firearms sales from the State Department to the Commerce Department, four officials told Reuters. 

 

The U.S. government is making it more difficult for skilled foreigners to work in the United States, challenging visa applications more often than at nearly any point in the Obama era, according to data reviewed by Reuters. 

 

U.N. General Assembly

 

Reuters TV: Trump rattles U.N. with threat to destroy North Korea 

 

The leaders of Britain, France and Italy will push social media companies to remove “terrorist content” from the internet within one to two hours of it appearing because they say that is the period when most material is spread. 

 

Trump's U.N. speech shows nationalist instincts firmly intact

 

China offers support for strife-torn Venezuela at United Nations

 

 

Pigeons bathe in a fountain in central Kiev, Ukraine September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

 

Business

 

World stocks eked out a new record high and the dollar dipped against its major rivals with the focus on a U.S. Federal Reserve policy meeting. Caught between a lull in U.S. inflation and a stronger global economy, the Federal Reserve is expected to signal whether it will raise interest rates for a third time this year or back off until prices rise more briskly. 

 

Uber reviews Asia business amid U.S. bribery probe: source 

 

How $5 billion of debt caught up with Toys 'R' Us

 

T-Mobile U.S. explores takeover of Sprint: source

 

Breakingviews - Tata Steel JV pays ThyssenKrupp four dividends

 

Wells Fargo's lone outsider aims to clean up bank's reputation

 

World

 

Hurricane Maria, the second maximum-strength storm to hit the Caribbean this month, battered the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix and headed toward Puerto Rico, set to be the strongest storm to hit the island in about 90 years. 

 

Myanmar's Suu Kyi denies going 'soft' on military 

 

After election rout, split stalks France's National Front

 

Hindus fleeing Myanmar violence hope for shelter in Modi's India

 

Commentary

 

The campaign for Germany's Sept. 24 election has been "notably dull" as Angela Merkel heads toward her fourth term as chancellor, writes columnist Paul Wallace. However, Merkel will find her job getting tougher as her country's political, economic and demographic vulnerabilities take their toll. "She will face new political constraints at home, while the basis for her authority, German economic strength, will come under increasing strain," says Wallace.