MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Category 4 Hurricane Hilary hurtled towards Mexico’s Baja California peninsula on Friday, a U.S. government agency said, as it issued its first ever tropical storm watch for California and warned of life-threatening and possibly catastrophic floods. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) expects the powerful storm to near Mexico’s popular Cabo San…
By Casey Hall and Ben Blanchard SHANGHAI/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China launched military drills around Taiwan on Saturday as a “serious warning” to separatist forces in an angry but widely expected response to Vice President William Lai’s visit to the United States, drawing condemnation from Taipei. Lai, the front-runner to become Taiwan’s president in elections in January,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. urged China on Saturday to stop pressuring Taiwan, after Beijing launched military drills around the democratically governed island in response to Taiwan Vice President William Lai’s U.S. visit. “We urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic, and economic pressure against Taiwan and instead engage in meaningful dialogue with Taiwan,” a…
In a world growing increasingly electric, Ford Motor Co.’s (NYSE:F) F-150 Lightning is taking the spotlight, eclipsing the much-anticipated Cybertruck by Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), according to a recent study by Cox Automotive. Key Findings: F-150 Lightning’s Popularity: Ford’s electric pickup led the charts in all assessed areas: from driving range and performance to appearance…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will sign a strategic partnership agreement with Vietnam during a state visit to the Southeast Asian country in mid-September, Politico reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of the deal’s planning. The agreement will allow for new bilateral collaboration that will boost Vietnam’s efforts to develop its high…
(Reuters) – Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, will remove a protective feature that lets users block other accounts, owner Elon Musk said on Friday in another controversial move for the company he bought last year. The block function on X allows a user to restrict specific accounts from contacting them, seeing their…
CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) – The United States prevailed on Japan and South Korea on Friday to use their strongest language yet in a joint statement to condemn China’s “dangerous and aggressive actions” in the South China Sea. In the Korean version of a Camp David summit joint statement seen by Reuters, the three countries…
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Hyonhee Shin CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol made several pledges in an historic Camp David meeting, and issued sharp rebukes to China and Russia: CHINA’S ‘DANGEROUS AND AGGRESSIVE’ ACTIONS The leaders issued a sharply worded joint…
By Trevor Hunnicutt, David Brunnstrom and Hyonhee Shin CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and the leaders of South Korea and Japan agreed at Camp David on Friday to deepen military and economic cooperation and made their strongest joint condemnation yet of “dangerous and aggressive behavior” by China in the South China Sea….
By Josh Smith, Trevor Hunnicutt and David Brunnstrom SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -North Korea’s latest Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile – its first ICBM to use solid rocket fuel – has reignited debate over possible Russian links to the nuclear-armed state’s dramatic missile development. In a report published on Thursday by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International…
