By Riddhima Talwani and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Restaurants of fast food chain McDonald’s have dropped tomatoes from their burgers and wraps in many parts of India, hit by supply shortages and quality concerns after prices of the vegetable soared to records. In some regions, wholesale prices of the staple of traditional Indian…
By Sakura Murakami and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will join NATO leaders in Lithuania on Tuesday to remind an alliance focused on Ukraine to pay heed to Chinese and Russian activity in Asia, which Japan sees as a threat to global security. Kishida’s second visit to a North Atlantic Treaty…
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – A new era is dawning for the U.S. women’s national soccer team, as the most diverse squad the program has ever produced will pursue an unprecedented third consecutive title when the World Cup kicks off this month in Australia and New Zealand. The squad represents a major shift…
PARIS (Reuters) – Record demand from India sharply increased Airbus orders in June to leave the European planemaker with 1,044 net orders in the first half of the year, data showed on Friday. In a bulletin, Airbus officially booked orders for 500 jets from budget carrier IndiGo and 250 from Air India that were announced…
By Kantaro Komiya and Lucy Craymer TOKYO (Reuters) -Ukraine has submitted a formal request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to New Zealand, Japanese and New Zealand authorities said on Friday. New Zealand, which performs the legal depositary functions for the partnership, had received a formal accession request from Ukraine…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to New Delhi expressed sorrow over the ethnic violence in India’s northeastern state of Manipur on Thursday, and while noting it was an Indian matter he said Washington stood ready to assist if requested. Nearly 120 people have been killed in clashes between members of the Kuki tribes…
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with China’s central bank governor Yi Gang and former economy tsar Liu He for informal talks on the global, U.S., and Chinese economies on Friday, according to a U.S. Treasury official Yellen comes to Beijing seeking to ease tensions between the world’s two…
By Michael Martina and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. wants other countries to engage China on limiting the flow of synthetic drugs, the State Department’s top official on narcotics said on Thursday, as Washington complains of a lack of co-operation by Beijing in combating their illegal trade. On the eve of a U.S.-led…
By David Lawder and Joe Cash WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – As U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen tries to steady an increasingly tense relationship with China, the world’s two largest economies remain tightly linked, but are showing some signs of future weakness. Yellen starts meetings on Friday with senior Chinese officials pledging to seek “healthy competition” with…
By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – China has launched a misinformation campaign that includes news reports Taiwan’s president has an “escape plan” in the event of a Chinese invasion, aiming to sap morale as Beijing presses the island to accept its sovereignty, Taiwan officials said. Taiwan is on high alert for what it sees as…
