Meta’s social media apps back up after brief outage – Downdetector.com

(Reuters) -Meta Platforms’ social media apps Instagram and Facebook, messaging app WhatsApp and Twitter-rival Threads were all back up after a brief outage affecting thousands of users on Monday, according to Downdetector.com. At the peak of the outage, lasting over an hour, over 14,000 users reported issues with accessing Instagram, while around 7,000 and 2,700…

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Cuba seeks stronger EU-CELAC relations, condemns EU’s ‘manipulative behavior’

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba will look to expand cooperation at an upcoming summit of European Union, Latin American and Caribbean leaders next week, its foreign minister said, but accused the EU of “manipulative behavior” that could hamper leaders’ ambitions. Heads of state from the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)…

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Analysis-Yellen’s China trip yields long meetings, ‘cordial’ tone, but no consensus

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen went to Beijing with no expectations that meetings with China’s new top economic officials would immediately ease tensions between the world’s two largest economies. There was no breakthrough. And it’s far from clear whether the 10 hours of meetings, covering issues ranging from U.S….

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Yellen says US, China want to ‘stabilize’ relationship

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she believes the United States and China want to stabilize their economic ties with “candor” and “respect.” Yellen told American Public Media’s Marketplace in an interview taped shortly before her departure from Beijing on Sunday that she believed her trip, during which both sides discussed “significant…

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US House hardliners step up spending pressure as showdown looms

By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than 20 U.S. House Republican hardliners warned Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday that they will try to block their party’s fiscal 2024 appropriations bills unless spending levels are cut below levels that McCarthy and Democratic President Joe Biden agreed to in May. The hardliners, including members…

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Foxconn dumps $19.5 billion Vedanta chip plan in blow to India

By Ben Blanchard, Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra TAIPEI/BENGALURU (Reuters) -Taiwan’s Foxconn has withdrawn from a $19.5 billion semiconductor joint venture with Indian metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta, it said on Monday, in a setback to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chipmaking plans for India. The world’s largest contract electronics maker signed a pact with Vedanta last year…

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