By James Oliphant and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ fledgling presidential campaign was looking to push forward on Thursday after a troubled online launch event drew mockery from his rivals and renewed doubts about his viability as a national candidate. DeSantis plans to barnstorm the early nominating states of Iowa, New Hampshire…
(Reuters) – A top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Ukraine war could last for decades, with long periods of fighting interspersed by truces, Russia’s RIA news agency reported on Thursday. It said former President Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council, had spoken during a visit to Vietnam. Medvedev often…
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Software problems are delaying the delivery to Taiwan of 66 advanced new F-16V fighter jets from the United States but the island still expects the full order to arrive by 2026, Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said on Thursday. The United States in 2019 approved an $8 billion sale of Lockheed Martin Corp F-16…
By Rosalba O’Brien (Reuters) – When Eric Gaillard first went to photograph the Cannes Film Festival in 1981, it was a smaller, more intimate affair – the kind of place where you could see the greats from Hollywood’s Golden Age like Lauren Bacall or Ava Gardner wandering alone on the esplanade or having fun on…
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Russia’s Wagner private army started handing over its positions in Bakhmut to regular Russian troops on Thursday, five days after declaring full control of the devastated eastern Ukrainian city following the longest and bloodiest battle of the war. Moscow says capturing Bakhmut opens the way to advances in the eastern…
By Noel Randewich and Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) – Wall Street ended sharply higher on Thursday after a blowout forecast from Nvidia sent the chipmaker’s stock soaring and fueled a rally in AI-related companies, while investors watched for signs of progress in U.S. debt ceiling talks. Nvidia Corp soared 24% to a record high close after…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican senator’s hold on military nominations will apply to Democratic President Joe Biden’s selection of Air Force chief General Charles Q. Brown as the country’s top military officer, who was chosen amid mounting U.S. concern over security threats from Russia and China. A spokesman for Senator Tommy Tuberville…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Praising his leadership and even his culinary skills, President Joe Biden on Thursday formally announced his nomination of Air Force chief General Charles Q. Brown as the top U.S. military officer, making the choice at a time of mounting American concern over security threats posed by Russia and China. “General Brown has built…
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. on Thursday said Russian mercenary force Wagner Group may be working through Mali and other countries to hide its efforts to acquire military equipment for use in Ukraine, and accused it of supplying a Sudanese paramilitary with surface-to-air missiles. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that despite difficulties, he felt Azerbaijan and Armenia were moving towards a settlement to their decades-old conflict over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Putin made his remarks in a televised Kremlin meeting with leaders of both nations. Russia has traditionally been the main power broker between…
