By Shivangi Acharya, Aditi Shah and Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and Britain are struggling to make progress in free trade talks due to differences on some key tariff lines and investment protection rules, making a deal unlikely during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term ending next year, Indian sources said. The two…
By Sakura Murakami HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has agreed with U.S. President Joe Biden to continue sanctions against Russia and support of Ukraine, Kishida told reporters as the two leaders met in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Thursday. Leaders of Japan and the United States met ahead of a…
(Reuters) – Ukraine’s military and Russia’s Wagner private army both reported fresh Russian retreats on the outskirts of Bakhmut, as Kyiv pressed on with its biggest advance for six months ahead of a planned major counteroffensive. FIGHTING * Ukraine’s military said its troops had advanced in places by more than a mile. Some of its…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. existing home sales fell for a second straight month in April, with prices rising in roughly half of the country, which together with possibly higher mortgage rates could delay a housing market recovery. Existing home sales dropped 3.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.28 million units last month, the…
By Trevor Hunnicutt and John Irish WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) -The longest shadows at the Group of Seven (G7) leaders’ summit this week will be cast by two countries that weren’t even invited to the Hiroshima gathering: China and Russia. As the heads of the world’s advanced democracies meet for three days from Friday in the western…
LONDON (Reuters) – An investor has raised a fresh question with the EMEA Credit Derivatives Determination Committee on whether a credit event occurred with regards to Credit Suisse, renewing a push to trigger payout on credit insurance linked to the Swiss lender. The question, which is asking for a ruling on whether a bankruptcy credit…
(Reuters) – Grab Holdings Ltd said on Thursday that an early Ramadan weighed on sales at its delivery business, taking the shine off an otherwise positive quarter and sending the Southeast Asian company’s shares down 2.5% before the bell. Total platform sales at Grab’s delivery business – its biggest – fell 9% in the March…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli nationalists marking the 1967 capture of East Jerusalem were to march through the Muslim quarter of the Old City on Thursday in an annual parade that Palestinians see as a provocation. Here are details on “Jerusalem Day” and why it stirs fears of renewed violence: WHAT IS JERUSALEM DAY? Israel fought…
By Zohra Bensemra and Mahamat Ramadane KOUFROUN, Chad (Reuters) – Fleeing the village to escape from attackers, crossing a desert border, building a shelter from straw and rags, waiting for food aid: these are familiar hardships for Halime Adam Moussa, who has fled Sudan for Chad with her family for a second time. Moussa, 68,…
By Summer Zhen HONG KONG (Reuters) – As Japan’s stock market roars to multi-decade highs, large investors with long memories say they are staying out, wary of sagging momentum and the prospect the central bank will unwind its massive monetary stimulus. Riding a wave of buybacks and strong corporate earnings, and pumped up by a…
