By Karl Plume CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. corn export dominance is fading in an increasingly competitive global marketplace as Brazil, aided by a new supply agreement with China, is set to out-ship the U.S. for just the second time ever this season. Meanwhile, Mexico, America’s other top market, is preparing to limit imports of genetically…
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The police showed up two days after a Catholic clergyman at a church near the Nicaraguan capital Managua delivered a Sunday sermon in May that included a prayer “for our priests.” The officers played an audio clip of the prayer and warned: These kinds of things are…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping, on an inspection tour of a major industrial province, renewed his call for greater innovation and technological self-reliance, as the United States intensifies curbs on Chinese access to advanced technologies. China should accelerate the upgrades of key technologies and core products, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Friday,…
By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -Twitter has threatened to sue Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform in a letter sent to the Facebook parent’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter’s lawyer Alex Spiro. Meta, which launched Threads on Wednesday and has logged more than 30 million sign ups, looks to take on Elon Musk’s Twitter by…
By Tassilo Hummel WOIPPY, France (Reuters) – After a bout of street unrest just over a decade ago, the Woippy suburb of the northeastern city of Metz secured state funding to improve housing, refurbish streets and even create a riverside beach and educational farm complete with beehives and a llama. But such spending, part of…
By Hyunsu Yim and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea said on Friday Japan’s plan to discharge treated radioactive water from its tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant met global safety standards and it respected the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s approval for the release. Japan plans to soon start releasing more than a million tons of treated…
By Riddhima Talwani and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Restaurants of fast food chain McDonald’s have dropped tomatoes from their burgers and wraps in many parts of India, hit by supply shortages and quality concerns after prices of the vegetable soared to records. In some regions, wholesale prices of the staple of traditional Indian…
By Roger Tung and Faith Hung TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s exports fell more than expected in June, slumping the most in almost 14 years, as the island struggled with persistent weakness in demand from the U.S. and China for its hi-tech products. As Taiwan is often considered a bellwether of global electronics demand, the sharp slump…
By Sakura Murakami and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will join NATO leaders in Lithuania on Tuesday to remind an alliance focused on Ukraine to pay heed to Chinese and Russian activity in Asia, which Japan sees as a threat to global security. Kishida’s second visit to a North Atlantic Treaty…
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – A new era is dawning for the U.S. women’s national soccer team, as the most diverse squad the program has ever produced will pursue an unprecedented third consecutive title when the World Cup kicks off this month in Australia and New Zealand. The squad represents a major shift…
