By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers will urge the CEOs of Ford Motor and General Motors to shrink reliance on China auto parts, particularly electric vehicle batteries, sources told Reuters on Monday. Four lawmakers who are part of the House of Representatives China Select Committee will travel to Detroit Tuesday…
(Reuters) -One of Russia’s top spymasters said on Monday he hoped that the U.N. nuclear watchdog and the European Union would look into Ukrainian nuclear activity that he said might signal Kyiv was working on a “dirty bomb”. Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service, did not provide documentary evidence to back…
By Nia Williams (Reuters) -Oil prices fell on Monday as questions over China’s economy outweighed OPEC+ output cuts and the seventh straight drop in the number of oil and gas rigs operating in the United States. Brent crude settled down 48 cents, or 0.6%, to $76.13 a barrel while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude…
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – U.S. climate envoy John Kerry met Pope Francis on Monday, the first official to have a private audience with him since his discharge from hospital, and told Reuters that he found the pontiff “in great spirits and in great form”. Francis, 86, left Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Friday, nine days after…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s armed forces only have around 20,000 high explosive artillery shells left, magazine Der Spiegel wrote on Monday citing confidential defence ministry papers prepared to convince the budget committee of the need for urgent purchases. Countries like Germany have rushed to send supplies of 155m artillery rounds used by howitzers to Ukraine…
By Nia Williams (Reuters) -Oil prices fell on Monday as questions over China’s economy outweighed OPEC+ output cuts and the seventh straight drop in the number of oil and gas rigs operating in the United States. Brent crude fell 48 cents, or 0.6%, to $76.13 a barrel by 1835 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate…
By Kate Abnett LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) -European Union countries failed on Monday to agree on planned new rules for the bloc’s power market, having clashed over a proposal to extend subsidies for coal plants under the reform, and a separate push to expand fixed-price power contracts. EU energy ministers meeting in Luxembourg ended talks without a…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s headline inflation likely reached its lowest level in more than two years during the first half of June, but remained above the central bank’s target, a Reuters poll showed on Monday, reinforcing bets the bank will keep the key rate steady longer. The median forecast of 11 analysts sees annual…
By John Irish and Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) – France has banned an upcoming Iranian opposition rally over the risk of an attack, according to a letter sent to the organisers and seen by Reuters, after the release of an Iranian diplomat convicted of masterminding a plot to bomb the group in 2018. The ban…
PARIS (Reuters) – French carmaker Renault appointed on Monday its group chief executive Luca de Meo as the future chairman and CEO of Ampere, the electric vehicle division which Renault is aiming to list on the stock market. Renault added that its board of directors had also set up an ad-hoc committee, chaired by Jean-Dominique…
