By Yew Lun Tian and Karen Lema (Reuters) – China’s foreign minister Qin Gang will not attend a diplomatic gathering in Indonesia this week for health reasons, a spokesman for his ministry said on Tuesday. Top diplomat Wang Yi would represent China at the meetings in Jakarta instead, the spokesman, Wang Wenbin, told a regular…
MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish maritime rescue that dispatched a plane and a ship to search for a fishing vessel from Senegal with about 200 migrants on board and missing for nearly two weeks, on Monday discovered what appears to be a different migrant boat. The reconnaissance plane spotted a boat 71 miles (114 km) to the…
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s parliament has given initial approval to a bill that limits some Supreme Court power, part of a rebooted judicial overhaul by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that has set off a deep political crisis. The drive to change the justice system by Netanyahu’s ruling coalition of nationalist and religious parties…
By John Revill and Tomasz Janowski ZURICH (Reuters) – A rare Swiss parliamentary investigation due to start this week aims to establish what went wrong before the dramatic fall of Credit Suisse, once Switzerland’s second biggest bank. The fifth such probe in the country’s modern history was set up after parliament, in a largely symbolic…
MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Alberto Nunez Feijoo, leader of the conservative People’s Party (PP), held a fractious live television debate on Monday, ahead of a national election on July 23. The pair tore into each other on a range of topics from the economy, housing, and pensions, to the environment,…
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba will look to expand cooperation at an upcoming summit of European Union, Latin American and Caribbean leaders next week, its foreign minister said, but accused the EU of “manipulative behavior” that could hamper leaders’ ambitions. Heads of state from the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)…
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen went to Beijing with no expectations that meetings with China’s new top economic officials would immediately ease tensions between the world’s two largest economies. There was no breakthrough. And it’s far from clear whether the 10 hours of meetings, covering issues ranging from U.S….
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she believes the United States and China want to stabilize their economic ties with “candor” and “respect.” Yellen told American Public Media’s Marketplace in an interview taped shortly before her departure from Beijing on Sunday that she believed her trip, during which both sides discussed “significant…
By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than 20 U.S. House Republican hardliners warned Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday that they will try to block their party’s fiscal 2024 appropriations bills unless spending levels are cut below levels that McCarthy and Democratic President Joe Biden agreed to in May. The hardliners, including members…
By Ben Blanchard, Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra TAIPEI/BENGALURU (Reuters) -Taiwan’s Foxconn has withdrawn from a $19.5 billion semiconductor joint venture with Indian metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta, it said on Monday, in a setback to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chipmaking plans for India. The world’s largest contract electronics maker signed a pact with Vedanta last year…
