TAIPEI (Reuters) -A Chinese uncrewed combat aircraft has flown around Taiwan, the island’s defence ministry said, showcasing Beijing’s ability to attack its fall-back east coast bases, as a U.S. maritime patrol aircraft transited the Taiwan Strait. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has increased military pressure on the island over the…
By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) -The French economy grew slightly in the first quarter, despite a series of strikes against the government’s pension reform bill, but inflation remained stubbornly high, rising to nearly six percent in April. Statistics agency INSEE data showed GDP edging up 0.2% in Q1, in line with expectations, after a…
(Reuters) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Friday kept ultra-low interest rates, but announced a broad review of its monetary policy, laying the groundwork for new Governor Kazuo Ueda to phase out his predecessor’s massive stimulus programme. As widely expected, the BOJ made no changes to its yield curve control (YCC) policy that sets…
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – The states of Vermont and Washington took steps on Thursday to protect the availability of medication abortions in the event that a lawsuit challenging federal approval for a commonly used abortion drug prevails in court. A series of bills were either passed or signed in the two states days after…
By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence appeared before a grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. Pence was inside U.S. District Court in Washington for more than seven hours,…
By Krishn Kaushik NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s defence minister told his Chinese counterpart on Thursday that improved relations depend on “peace and tranquillity” returning to their frontier disturbed by military tensions, the Indian government said. Relations between the nuclear-armed Asian giants have deteriorated since mid-2020, when Chinese and Indian troops clashed on their disputed Himalayan…
(Reuters) -Three U.S. Army pilots were killed and one was injured in Alaska on Thursday when two Apache helicopters returning from a training mission collided in flight, the 11th Airborne Division of the Army said. Two soldiers were declared dead at the scene and a third died on the way to hospital, the army unit…
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Television personality Jerry Springer, known for a long-running talk show that featured raucous audiences, controversial topics and fist-fighting guests and who briefly served as Cincinnati mayor, died at age 79 on Thursday, his family said. Springer died peacefully after a brief illness at his home in suburban Chicago, his family said…
By Yoruk Bahceli (Reuters) -The European Union is preparing to approach index providers for its debt to be included in their government bond indexes, an EU official told Reuters, a move that would attract steady demand from a much bigger pool of global investors. Index inclusion “is something we are discussing with market participants at…
By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Lufthansa is hopeful of finalising the partial takeover of Italy’s state-owned ITA Airways within days, an executive at the German carrier said on Thursday, describing talks with the Italian government as “very good.” The two airlines agree on how to work together to win market share, Harry Hohmeister, head…
