In an unprecedented act of defiance, Beijing has ordered Chinese businesses to ignore the United States’ sanctions against Iran. Chairman Xi Jinping is due to meet President Donald Trump for personal talks in the coming days. And a lot has changed since their last Beijing soiree in 2017. Trade is a deeply entrenched battleground between…
SYDNEY, May 9 (Reuters) – Australian far-right populist party Pauline Hanson’s One Nation won its first seat in the country’s House of Representatives in a byelection on Saturday, a preliminary vote count showed. The result is in line with a surge of electoral support for far-right populist parties globally. Britain’s ruling Labour party this week…
MOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Saturday said that the United States was in a hurry to clinch a peace deal to end the Ukraine war but that getting to any sort of agreement was a very long way off because the issues were so complicated. Russia and Ukraine confirmed on Friday that…
By Matt Spetalnick and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) – With his decision to pull some U.S. troops from Germany, his threats to draw down forces elsewhere in Europe and his downplaying of Iran’s recent attacks on an important Gulf partner, President Donald Trump’s latest moves foreshadow what could be the war’s enduring legacy:…
Glasgow, United Kingdom – Voters in England’s local council elections have delivered a damning verdict of Labour as it took hundreds of seats from the UK’s governing party, in what is seen as another major blow for Prime Minister Keir Starmer. While many results from Thursday’s municipal poll in England have yet to be declared, the…
May 8 (Reuters) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said the United States can have a productive relationship with the Catholic Church despite tensions over President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on Pope Leo. Rubio, who visited the Vatican on Thursday, told reporters on Friday before leaving Rome the meeting was “very positive”. Asked about Trump’s…
CHISINAU, May 8 (Reuters) – European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday there was no exact date yet for opening formal talks on Moldova’s accession to the bloc, although the EU wanted to move fast on the matter. “We haven’t set that date, but it’s clear that we need to move fast,”…
ZURICH, May 8 (Reuters) – Swiss voters are evenly split on whether to back a referendum proposal to restrict Switzerland’s population to 10 million, an opinion poll showed on Friday. The Swiss government is opposed to the initiative championed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) that goes to a vote on June 14, saying…
May 8 (Reuters) – Russian air defence units have intercepted more than 50 drones heading for Moscow over a period of about 15 hours, according to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. The running total of drones downed between about 11 a.m. (0800 GMT) on Thursday and 2 a.m. on Friday exceeded 50, Sobyanin said in a long…
May 7 (Reuters) – Georgia sentenced ten people, including a prominent opera singer, to lengthy prison sentences on Thursday after finding them guilty of attempting to overthrow the government and organising violence at large rallies during municipal elections last year, in a case critics say underscores a widening crackdown on opponents of the ruling party….