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…
NEW DELHI/LONDON (Reuters) – Freedom of expression cannot be used for “legitimising violence”, India said on Thursday in response to media reports citing comments by Canada’s prime minister on Ottawa’s handling of supporters of a separate state for the Sikh community. India summoned the Canadian envoy in New Delhi to register its protest after Indian…
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -Ivan Marquez, the well-known leader of a faction of former FARC rebels who returned to arms after a peace deal with Colombia’s government, has died in Venezuela, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. Though most members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) demobilized…
By Andriy Perun LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -A Russian missile slammed into a residential building in Lviv in western Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least seven people in a city that is far from frontlines and home to thousands displaced by war. The roof and top floor of the building were destroyed in what Lviv’s mayor…
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Official results from Guatemala’s first-round presidential election late last month will be released next week, the country’s electoral court announced on Thursday, following a extended delay triggered by challenges from parties. A court spokesperson told Reuters that final results in the presidential race from the June 25 vote did not change….
By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia should halt collective expulsions of sub-Saharan African migrants and urgently enable access to humanitarian services for those the government sent to a dangerous area of the Tunisia-Libya border, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. Tunisia has removed hundreds of the migrants to a desolate area along the…
By Sinéad Carew and Marc Jones NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – MSCI’s global index of stocks fell on Thursday while Treasury yields rose as a surge in U.S. private payrolls prompted concerns that interest rates would stay higher for longer. Payroll company ADP said June private payrolls rose 497,000, far exceeding economists’ expectations for a 228,000…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday replaced his tourism minister, the first cabinet reshuffle of his administration, as he seeks to shore up support for his political agenda from a powerful bloc of lawmakers. Tourism minister Daniela Carneiro will be replaced by federal lawmaker Celso Sabino from the Uniao…
