By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told visiting NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday it was time for the military alliance to offer his country membership and that Kyiv needed more weapons to fight Russia. Zelenskiy made his comments at a joint news conference after talks with Stoltenberg, who offered NATO’s solidarity…
By YP Rajesh NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India is poised to overtake China as the world’s most populous nation, with almost 3 million more people than its neighbour by the middle of this year, data released on Wednesday by the United Nations showed. India’s population by mid-year is estimated at 1.4286 billion, against 1.4257 billion…
By Yukiko Toyoda TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will keep calling for China to act responsibly on the world stage, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday, a sign of Tokyo’s deepening concern about stability in the Taiwan Strait following Beijing’s recent military drills. The comments from Kishida, after China conducted drills in the waters off Taiwan…
By Michael Holden and Sarah Mills LONDON(Reuters) – As Britain prepares to crown King Charles III in a ceremony with traditions dating back some 1,000 years, the monarchy confronts a question it has faced down the centuries: how does it survive in the modern world? For the House of Windsor, that does not mean dealing…
By James Oliphant and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump still commands the support of a significant share of conservative Christian voters, Reuters interviews with evangelical leaders and opinion polls show, but a window of opportunity remains for a challenger to peel some of that support away. Evangelical voters are key to…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Throwing another curve ball into an already confusing inflation picture, crude oil prices have retreated sharply again this week and take some of the edge off renewed anxiety in interest rate markets. Both Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate crude futures…
By Mari Saito, Polina Nikolskaya, Maria Tsvetkova and Anton Zverev BALAKLIIA, Ukraine (Reuters) – During an interrogation by Russian intelligence officers at a police station in Ukraine’s Balakliia town in June, local businessman Ruslan Volobuyev was beaten by one of the men, he said. At one point, according to Volobuyev’s account, a thick-set man in…
LONDON (Reuters) – JPMorgan expects the U.S. debt ceiling to become an issue as early as next month with the Wall Street bank ascribing a “non-trivial risk” of a technical default on U.S. Treasuries. In a note published to clients late on Wednesday, JPMorgan said it expected both the debate over the debt ceiling as…
By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) -France will see its national debt burden fall faster than previously expected even though the cost of interest payments is set to soar, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday. The national debt burden, which reached a record just shy of 3 trillion euros at the end of last…
By A. Ananthalakshmi and Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia has launched an investigation to uncover how hundreds of migrant workers arrived from South Asia without jobs, despite having paid steep fees to get employment, officials and rights groups said. The issue revives concerns over labour abuses in Malaysia, a key manufacturing hub at…
