By Xinghui Kok and Greg Torode SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Tensions between the United States and China are expected to loom over Asia’s top security meeting this week, as China has declined a bilateral meeting between the superpowers’ defence chiefs. The Shangri-La Dialogue, which attracts top defence officials, senior military officers, diplomats, weapons makers and security analysts…
By John Irish and Andrew Gray BULBOACA, Moldova (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pressed his case on Thursday for Ukraine to be part of the NATO military alliance and urged the alliance to provide security guarantees if membership was not possible for now. Joining a meeting of European leaders in Moldova, the Ukrainian leader was seeking…
By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Stock photo provider Getty Images has asked London’s High Court for an injunction to prevent artificial intelligence company Stability AI from selling its AI image-generation system in Britain, court filings show. The Seattle-based company accuses the company of breaching its copyright by using its images to “train” its Stable…
By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s manufacturing output fell for a third month in a row in May and new orders declined at the fastest pace in four, but there were signs that the worst of the inflation surge may have passed, an industry survey showed on Thursday. The final reading of the S&P…
WARSAW (Reuters) – A visa waiver for participants of an art festival in Belarus in July could serve as a gateway for migrants and renew pressure on Poland’s eastern border, a senior Polish security official said on Thursday. Poland has been a refuge for opponents of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, and has become one of…
By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron has loosened labour laws and cut taxes among other reforms to transform the economy, but has not broken France’s addiction to spending big to buy social peace. Eager to turn the page on months of protests against his plans to raise the retirement age by two…
(Reuters) – The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries with Russia and other allies, or OPEC+, meet on June 4 to discuss whether additional oil production cuts should be implemented. The group in early April surprised markets with output cuts of around 1.16 million barrels per day, fuelling a rise in prices. Going into the…
By Sabine Siebold and Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – Moscow cannot stop Ukraine from becoming a NATO member, the alliance’s chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday, as divisions among allies about the speed of Kyiv’s accession became apparent only weeks before a decisive mid-July summit in Vilnius. “All allies agree that Moscow does not have…
By Mike Stone and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – SpaceX’s Starlink, the satellite communications service started by billionaire Elon Musk, now has a Department of Defense contract to buy those satellite services for Ukraine, the Pentagon said on Thursday. “We continue to work with a range of global partners to ensure Ukraine has the resilient…
MILAN (Reuters) – Stellantis does not need the Italian state as a shareholder as the carmaker is in good shape, its Chairman John Elkann said on Thursday, responding to business lobby calls for Italy to invest directly in the group. Paolo Scudieri, who heads the Italian automotive association ANFIA, was quoted in Il Sole 24…
