MANILA (Reuters) -The upcoming trilateral summit between the United States, Philippines and Japan will include an agreement to maintain security and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, Philippine…
HONG KONG (Reuters) -A fire broke out in a densely populated residential building in Hong Kong’s bustling Kowloon district on Wednesday, killing five people and injuring 35 others, the city’s…
(Reuters) -Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Wednesday that Israel “must be punished and it shall be” for attacking the Iranian embassy compound in Syria. In a major…
By Bernard Orr BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s government on Wednesday labelled as “dangerous” comments by a senior U.S. diplomat that the AUKUS submarine project between Australia, Britain and the United States…
ZURICH (Reuters) – Influential newspapers in Switzerland on Wednesday criticised a climate change ruling against the Swiss government by Europe’s top human rights court, saying it risked undermining democracy and…
By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – A landmark climate change ruling from the European Court of Human rights on Tuesday found that the Swiss government had violated the human rights of…
By Kirsty Needham and Lucy Craymer SYDNEY/WELLINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Coast Guard has rejected comments by a Chinese diplomat that its recent boardings of Chinese fishing boats in the Pacific…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Musician Paul Simon will play for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, his wife, Yuko, and President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at a state dinner…
ORSK, Russia (Reuters) -Russia and Kazakhstan ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after swiftly melting snow swelled mighty rivers beyond bursting point in the worst flooding in the area…
By Brendan Pierson and Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Arizona’s top court on Tuesday revived a ban on nearly all abortions under a law from 1864, a half century before statehood…
By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai authorities have postponed until next month a hearing with influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on whether to indict him over…
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A deadly, mass famine in Gaza would likely accelerate violence and ensure a long-term conflict, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told a Senate hearing…
By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s Board of Governors will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday at the request of both Ukraine and Russia to discuss attacks…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday that he and his administration are trying to determine whether he has the authority to act on…
(Reuters) – U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is considering stepping down from the Biden administration following the November election to mount a run for California governor in…
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico welcomed the return of its Ecuador embassy personnel on Sunday, two days after police raided the facility in an act that…
By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. is considering easing advisories against its citizens traveling to China, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said on Tuesday, acknowledging…
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge decided on Tuesday to allow the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents to shield the…
By David Shepardson and Clark Mindock WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to grant California a waiver to set its own tailpipe…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Tuesday lost his second last-ditch bid in as many days to delay his April 15 trial on criminal charges stemming from…
By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Nasdaq and S&P 500 posted modest gains on Tuesday, a day ahead of major inflation data, weighed down by financial stocks as investors…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Manhattan prosecutors started and stopped the investigation that culminated in Donald Trump’s upcoming criminal trial so many times that it came to be…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Tuesday he would not approve a massive arms transfer to…
By Steve Holland and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More joint patrols can be expected in the South China Sea after drills by the United States, Australia, the Philippines and Japan…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will delay sending the Democratic-majority Senate its impeachment charges against President Joe Biden’s top border security official until next week, a House…