By Trevor Hunnicutt HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy could speak as soon as Sunday in talks over raising the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling. Biden, who is traveling in Japan for the Group of Seven (G7) summit, sought the call after his negotiating team briefed him…
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Israelis joined protests across the country, now entering their 20th week, on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contested plans to tighten controls on the Supreme Court. The planned overhaul, which would give the government control over naming judges to the Supreme Court and let parliament override…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that he backed a Group of Seven (G7) joint statement out of Japan stressing the need to ease reliance on trade with China. The G7 rich nations, which increasingly see China as a economic security threat, on Saturday issued a communique from the city…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that he backed a Group of Seven (G7) joint statement out of Japan stressing the need to ease reliance on trade with China. The G7 rich nations, which increasingly see China as a economic security threat, on Saturday issued a communique from the city…
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Members of the Group of Seven rich nations will ensure big investments in China continue even as they pare risky exposure to the world’s second-largest economy, Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday. G7 leaders are wrapping up a three-day summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where they sent signals…
By Moira Warburton and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration and congressional Republicans traded barbs on Saturday over raising the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, with both sides casting the other’s proposals as too extreme. Officials did not meet on Saturday, after two meetings ended on Friday with no progress cited by…
CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s warring factions signed an agreement late on Saturday for a seven-day ceasefire as fighting that has plunged the country into chaos and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week. The ceasefire will take effect at 9:45 p.m. Khartoum time (1945 GMT) on Monday, the sponsors of the talks, the United…
By Moira Warburton and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s administration and congressional Republicans traded barbs on Saturday over raising the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, with both sides casting the other’s proposals as too extreme. Officials did not meet on Saturday, after two meetings ended on Friday with no progress cited by either…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Western countries will run “colossal risks” if they supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko as saying on Saturday. Grushko was responding to a question about the implications of providing the jets, which Ukraine has been requesting from NATO countries. It has not…
By John Irish and Sakura Murakami HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks with India’s Narendra Modi on Saturday and was due to meet other “Global South” leaders at a Group of Seven (G7) summit aimed at broadening support for his country in its war against Russia. The three-day G7 meeting in the Japanese…
