By Tim Kelly and Irene Wang TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan on Saturday marked one year since former prime minister Shinzo Abe was gunned down during an election speech by a man angry at his links to the Unification Church. The death of Japan’s longest serving prime minister, which was caught on video, rattled a nation…
By Andrea Shalal BEIJING (Reuters) -The United States and China, as the world’s two largest economies, must work together to combat the “existential threat” of climate change, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Chinese government officials and climate experts on Saturday. During a visit to Beijing, Yellen said previous cooperation on climate change between the…
By Can Sezer ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that he was pressing Russia to extend a Black Sea grain deal by at least three months and announced a visit by President Vladimir Putin in August. He was speaking at a joint news conference with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy after the two…
SEOUL (Reuters) -The first meeting of the Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) between South Korea and the United States will take place on July 18 in Seoul, South Korea’s presidential office said on Saturday. The meeting will discuss “information sharing, consultation mechanism and joint planning and execution designed to bolster nuclear deterrence against North Korea.” The…
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ukraine’s counter-offensive against Russian forces is going more slowly than some expected but it remains too early to draw conclusions about Kyiv’s prospects for battlefield gains, a senior Pentagon official said on Friday. The United States and other allies have spent months building Ukraine a so-called…
By Andrew Hay TALPA, N.M. (Reuters) – Physiotherapist Spencer Bushnell lives less than a mile from farmer Carlos Arguello in Taos, New Mexico. But they are worlds apart on proposals to lace the foothills they love with up to 71 miles of mountain bike and hiking trails. The two volunteered this year for a U.S….
By Lewis Krauskopf, Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes ended lower on Friday in a seesaw session, as investors digested a U.S. jobs report that showed weaker-than-expected growth and awaited more economic data and corporate earnings in the weeks ahead. The U.S. added the fewest jobs in 2-1/2…
(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden told Chinese President Xi Jinping following his meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to “be careful” because Beijing relies on Western investment, according to excerpts from an interview with CNN. “I said: This is not a threat. This is an observation,” Biden said. “Since Russia went into Ukraine, 600 American corporations…
(Reuters) – Police on Friday arrested two men aged 19 and 20 on suspicion of murder in the shooting at a Texas street festival on the eve of the Fourth of July that killed three people and wounded eight others, Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes said. Further arrests could be made, Noakes told a…
By Laura Gottesdiener, Ted Hesson, Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke and Daina Beth Solomon MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) – On a June afternoon when temperatures climbed near 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius), Alejandra Pena gently tipped a jug of water into her son’s mouth. Like other children in the migrant camp, a mile-long stretch of tents along…
