TAIPEI (Reuters) – Leading Taiwan presidential candidate William Lai wrote in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that he could keep the peace with China if elected, reiterating his willingness for talks without preconditions and a pledge to boost defences. Lai, Taiwan’s vice president and the candidate for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), has…
By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -A Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian forces has been “particularly fruitful” in the past few days and Ukraine’s troops are fulfilling their main tasks, a senior security official said on Tuesday. The comments by Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, were Kyiv’s latest positive assessment of the…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday that there were “certain contacts” with the United States over the case of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, but that it did not want to make them public. The Kremlin made the remark a day after U.S. ambassador Lynne Tracy was allowed to visit Gershkovich in…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Tuesday said gun violence was tearing apart U.S. communities after mass shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Fort Worth claimed the lives of at least 10 people ahead of the Fourth of July holiday. Much more action is needed to “address the epidemic of gun violence that…
By Jeff Mason and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A white powder found inside the White House late on Sunday was identified by Washington’s fire department and emergency services as cocaine, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The source said the powder was found in the West Wing, but gave no further details….
By Mohamad Torokman and Raneen Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – The family of 16-year-old Noureddin Marshoud wept over his body as it laid in a morgue in Jenin on Tuesday, after he was killed during an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank. Marshoud was named by the militant Islamic Jihad group as…
By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO on Tuesday extended Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s contract by another year, opting to stick with an experienced leader rather than try to agree on a successor as war rages on the alliance’s doorstep. Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway, has been the transatlantic security alliance’s leader since 2014…
BONDY, France (Reuters) – In the down-at-heel Paris suburb of Bondy, where Kylian Mbappe grew up, some residents have looked to the 24-year-old France soccer star for guidance on how to react to a wave of rioting in their community and many others like it. The violence was triggered by the fatal police shooting on…
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted an eight-year-old girl in the Kremlin on Tuesday and got her to join him in a bizarre phone call to his finance minister to ask for a budget grant for her home region. The Kremlin released video of Putin welcoming the girl, Raisat Akipova, in the latest of…
(Reuters) -Israel unleashed a major raid on July 3 on Jenin refugee camp, a Palestinian militant stronghold in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, killing at least 10 Palestinians in clashes with gunmen. Here is what you need to know about Jenin: WHY IS ISRAEL ATTACKING JENIN? Since March 2022, Jenin and outlying areas in the north…
