By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s aggressive military response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan has increased interest from other countries’ parliaments in similar trips, the…
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Investment applications in Thailand dropped by 42% in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period last year, official data showed on Wednesday, led by…
By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba plans to allow some foreign investment in local wholesale and retail trade for the first time since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, the government…
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Britain recorded its biggest rise in foreign workers since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the year to June, driven overwhelmingly by workers…
(Reuters) – Chinese officials are planning a possible trip by Xi Jinping to Southeast Asia in November for what could be the leader’s first foreign trip since the COVID-19 pandemic…
Greenbelt, Maryland – Njuh Valentine Fombe, a/k/a “Valentine”, age 36, formerly of Beltsville, Maryland, had an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt on August 8, 2022, after being…
EXCLUSIVE: Republican Governors Urge Biden To Lift COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate For Foreign Travelers To US Gabe Kaminsky on August 10, 2022 More than a dozen Republican governors are demanding President…
BANGKOK – Thailand’s foreign tourist arrivals should reach 10 million this year, helping drive the economy along with increased exports, the finance minister said on Wednesday. Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy…
(Reuters) – Japanese investors purchased heavily in foreign equities in July, as global stocks rebounded last month on the back of positive earnings and hopes of less aggressive monetary tightening…
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL – South Korea foreign minister Park Jin is set for his first visit to China on Monday as President Yoon Suk-yeol’s government seeks to reassure Beijing…
BEIJING – Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Sunday that Taiwan is not part of the United States but Chinese territory, in the latest diplomatic invective against U.S. policy…
MOSCOW – The Russian rouble stabilised in the 60-61 range to the dollar on Friday, lacking significant growth drivers going into the weekend, while stocks fell as the market prepared…
MOSCOW – Russian stocks are expected to decline in August as investors from so-called “friendly” countries, a fraction of foreign investment power, return to the unchartered waters of an equity…
BEIJING – China scolded foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Thursday for telling Beijing not to use a visit by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK – In the five months since the U.S. Department of Justice launched a task force to seize Russian oligarchs’ assets to pressure Moscow over its…
LONDON – Britain will now require foreign companies holding UK property to identify their true owners in an official register, the government said on Monday, as part of a crackdown…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Saudi-born Canadian citizen was sentenced today to life imprisonment for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated…
(Reuters) – Foreign mutual funds which have exposure to Sri Lankan equities have posted steep losses in their net asset values this year, prompting their fund managers to look for…
BEIJING – China will strengthen efforts to stabilise foreign trade in the second half of the year, the commerce ministry said on Friday. The country’s foreign trade faces “high risks,…
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON – Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has brushed off criticism from prominent figures around the world of last month’s blockbuster ruling he authored that…
MOSCOW – H&M, the world’s second-biggest fashion retailer, has decided to sell its assets in Russia, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade said on Thursday. The potential buyer could…
FEC Bars Eric Swalwell From Paying Babysitters With Campaign Funds While Visiting With Foreign Governments Gabe Kaminsky on July 27, 2022 Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell is not allowed to…
By Alexandra Alper and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON – The United States needs to keep modernizing its nuclear command and control system to combat possible spying from foreign company equipment installed…
(This content was produced in Russia where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine) MOSCOW – A few dozen Russian retail investors handed in a letter to…
MOSCOW – Russian’s central bank will review deals by foreign banks to sell their Russian operations on a case-by-case basis, the governor Elvira Nabiullina said on Friday, as Moscow has…