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Explainer-What are US sanctions on Iran? How can Washington impose more?
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has warned it will impose new sanctions on Iran following its unprecedented attack on Israel. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday said…
Explainer-When is the UK election?
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s next national election is expected this year, although its timing is uncertain. Here is what is known about when to expect the vote, and the process determining its timing…
Explainer-What are special counsels and why did one investigate Joe Biden?
By Brad Heath (Reuters) – A U.S. special counsel who investigated Joe Biden and his handling of classified documents issued a report on Thursday saying that the president retained classified materials about…
Explainer-What is next for Donald Trump at the US Supreme Court?
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday seemed poised to rule in favor of former President Donald Trump in a legal fight over whether…
Explainer-What is known about the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions
By Nerijus Adomaitis, Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden announced on Wednesday that it had dropped its investigation into the explosions in 2022 on Nord Stream pipelines carrying Russian gas to Germany and…
Explainer-What happens next after China Evergrande ordered to liquidate?
By Clare Jim and Scott Murdoch HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong court on Monday ordered China Evergrande, the world’s most indebted developer, to be liquidated. The move could send shockwaves…
Explainer-What makes Italy’s capital markets bill controversial?
By Giuseppe Fonte and Valentina Za ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni faces mounting criticism over a government bill to overhaul the country’s capital markets, after it was amended to…
Explainer-What Turkey gained in delaying Sweden’s NATO bid
By Huseyin Hayatsever and Jonathan Spicer ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s parliament backed Sweden’s NATO membership bid on Tuesday, clearing a last major hurdle toward enlarging the Western bloc after 20 months of…
Explainer-What does Red Sea disruption mean for Europe’s economy?
By Mark John (Reuters) – Weeks of attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi militants on vessels in the Red Sea have disrupted shipping in the Suez Canal, the fastest sea route between Asia and…
Explainer-What is the Tokyo Exchange’s new list of firms disclosing capital efficiency plans?
By Anton Bridge TOKYO (Reuters) – The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s (TSE) move to release a list of firms that have disclosed plans to increase their capital efficiency is its latest attempt to…
Explainer-What are solid-fuel missiles, and why is North Korea developing them?
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea test-fired a intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) powered by solid fuel on Monday, South Korean officials said, in what would be the third such test…
Explainer-What Ukraine needs to do to keep its EU membership bid going
By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – European Union leaders decided on Thursday to launch formal membership talks with Ukraine, providing a much-needed boost for Kyiv amid uncertainty over the future of vital…
Explainer-What is the fundraising scandal engulfing Japan’s ruling party?
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is battling to stem the fallout from one of the biggest financial scandals to hit his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)…
Explainer-What does Argentina’s ‘shock therapy’ economic package involve?
By Valentine Hilaire (Reuters) – Argentina’s government under libertarian President Javier Milei has unveiled a “shock therapy” economic plan, a radical and likely painful blueprint to stabilize the South American country’s economy…
Explainer-What would a Woodside and Santos merger look like?
By Emily Chow SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Australian energy companies Woodside and Santos announced on Dec. 7 they are in preliminary talks to merge, a tie-up that would come amid a wave of…
Explainer-What is happening with Germany’s 2024 budget?
By Maria Martinez and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Economy Minister Robert Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner resumed talks on Tuesday to find an agreement on the…
Explainer-What do we know about China’s respiratory illness surge?
By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A request by the World Health Organization for more information on a surge in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children in China has attracted…
Explainer-What happens next after Panama’s top court strikes down First Quantum contract?
By Valentine Hilaire and Divya Rajagopal (Reuters) – Panama’s top court on Tuesday ruled that First Quantum Minerals Ltd’s new contract unconstitutional after unprecedented protests against the mining contract that the Canadian…
Explainer-What happens next after Panama’s top strikes down First Quantum contract?
By Valentine Hilaire and Divya Rajagopal (Reuters) – Panama’s top court on Tuesday ruled that First Quantum Minerals Ltd’s new contract unconstitutional after unprecedented protests against the mining contract that the Canadian…
Explainer-What is Lockbit? The digital extortion gang on a cybercrime spree
By Zeba Siddiqui and James Pearson SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON (Reuters) – A cybercriminal group named Lockbit, which on Friday said it breached the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China(ICBC), has hacked some of…
Explainer-What would Japanese intervention to boost the weak yen look like?
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese authorities are facing renewed pressure to combat a sustained depreciation in the yen, as investors eye prospects of higher-for-longer U.S. interest rates while the Bank…
Explainer-What is Australia’s Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum?
By Praveen Menon SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australians will be asked to vote in a referendum on Oct. 14 to constitutionally recognise its Indigenous people through the establishment of a representative body that…
Explainer-What Macron means when he says he wants to ‘take back control’ of French power prices
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said last week his government would “take back control” of electricity prices by the end of the year, without spelling out what steps he would…
Explainer-What would Japanese intervention to boost the weak yen look like?
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese authorities are facing renewed pressure to combat a sustained depreciation in the yen, as investors eye prospects of higher-for-longer U.S. interest rates while the Bank…
Explainer-What charges does Sam Bankman-Fried face over FTX’s collapse?
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried is set to go on trial on Tuesday on fraud and conspiracy charges related to the collapse of FTX, the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange…
Explainer-What does New York fraud ruling mean for Donald Trump’s business empire?
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – The fate of Donald Trump’s business empire hangs in the balance after a New York judge stripped control of key properties from the former U.S. president as…
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