BEIJING (Reuters) – China firmly opposes U.S. inclusion of two more companies, and some of their units, on a list of entities accused of alleged human rights abuses, the commerce ministry said on Monday. The action taken by the United States lacks factual basis and transparency, the ministry said, adding China will take necessary measures…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Sunday defended Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 37-count indictment against Donald Trump on Sunday, saying if the allegations the former president willfully retained hundreds of highly classified documents are proven true, then “he’s toast.” “I was shocked by the degree of sensitivity of…
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A U.S. musician and former paratrooper has been arrested in Moscow on drug dealing charges and his court appearance, locked in a metal cage, has been shown on Russian state television. Russia’s court system named the detained American as Michael Travis Leake, 51, who was formerly a songwriter and musician in the Russian…
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump used the first public appearance since his federal indictment to ratchet up attacks on the Justice Department, accusing prosecutors, without evidence, of a politically motivated campaign to keep him from the White House. Speaking on Saturday at Georgia’s state Republican convention, Trump alleged that President Joe Biden,…
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Donald Trump faces a formidable task defending against charges that he illegally kept top-secret documents upon leaving the White House in 2021, according to legal experts, who said neither the law nor the facts appear to be on his side. The former U.S. president, who is a candidate to run…
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s health conditions are “very serious,” Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera said on Monday. Reuters is checking the report. (Reporting by Federica Urso, editing Gianluca Semeraro)
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss financial regulator FINMA has specified the central elements of its regulatory requirements for the merged UBS and Credit Suisse, it said on Monday. The regulator also said it “welcomes UBS’s strategic focus, which foresees a rapid reduction of risk in investment banking,” in a statement after UBS formally completed its emergency…
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German economy could grow between 1.6% to 1.9% next year, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Monday. “We expected economic growth of 0.4% for this year … In 2024, we think we could get back to growth of 1.6%, 1.9%, so slowly reaching the normal rates again,” Habeck said in a…
By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Monday its troops had recaptured a fourth village in a cluster of settlements in the southeast, a day after reporting the first small gains of a counteroffensive against Russian forces. Soldiers held up the Ukrainian flag in Storozheve in the Donetsk region in unverified video footage posted…
(Reuters) -Billionaire financier George Soros is handing control of his massive empire to his son Alexander, a Soros spokesperson said on Sunday. The spokesperson confirmed the details from an interview with Soros published in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. A hedge fund manager turned philanthropist and major backer of liberal causes, Soros, 92, said…
