By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -Chinese fighter jets monitored a U.S. Navy patrol plane that flew through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, as China carried out a third day of military exercises to the south of the island Beijing views as China’s sovereign territory. China has been incensed by U.S. military missions through the…
GENEVA (Reuters) – A group of United Nations investigators and experts called on Ethiopia on Thursday to halt the deportation of Eritreans, as well as the arbitrary detention of Eritrean refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. The group, who make reports on rights issues on behalf of the U.N., also condemned what they called the “summary…
By Laurie Chen, Yew Lun Tian and Brenda Goh BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Some diplomats in China say they are facing heightened scrutiny and interference from Chinese authorities, which is thwarting foreign officials’ efforts to re-engage with the country after three years of COVID-induced isolation. Twenty envoys from 12 Western and Asian delegations told Reuters that…
By Andy Bruce and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s economy shrank by less than expected in May despite a bank holiday to mark King Charles’ coronation and strikes, suggesting a widely forecast recession caused by high inflation and surging interest rates was not already under way. Economic output fell 0.1% in May from April, the…
(Reuters) – Chindata Group Holdings said on Thursday Bain Capital, its largest shareholder, did not intend to sell any of its shares in the Chinese data center operator after a rival bid from China Merchants Capital (CMC). The unit of state-owned conglomerate China Merchants Group offered to acquire Chindata Group for $9.2 per American Depositary…
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Nesma Daher survived years of war in a Damascus suburb that was on the frontlines of Syria’s conflict. But well after the guns fell silent in her area and even as her country’s regional isolation thaws, she says life only gets harder. A widow from Douma, a rebel-held town until 2018 when…
By Idrees Ali ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) – Russia’s leadership is suffering a significant amount of “friction and confusion” since the Wagner mercenary group’s mutiny last month, but the impact it is having on front lines in Ukraine is still uncertain, the United States’ top general said on Thursday. The June 24 mutiny…
By Crispian Balmer and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Just as King Canute failed to hold back the seas, so Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has floundered in her efforts to stop the flow of migrants to Italy since she took office last October. Despite pledges before last year’s national election that she would cut immigration,…
By John McCrank and Michelle Price WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Partnering with Coinbase Global may hinder rather than help Nasdaq’s bid to win regulatory approval for a bitcoin exchange-traded-fund it wants to launch with BlackRock. Nasdaq last month filed a proposal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch an ETF by BlackRock that…
(This July 12 story has been refiled to remove an additional word in paragraph 1) By Guy Faulconbridge and Filipp Lebedev MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is decaying in a potent brew of absurdity and repression that is comparable to the Leonid Brezhnev-era of the Soviet Union, Oleg Orlov, one of Russia’s most respected human rights…
