BEIJING (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on Friday for the 2022 Winter Olympics and a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, bringing with him a deal to increase natural gas supplies to China amid rising tension with …
Mired in scandal, British PM Johnson fights to shore up authority
LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting on Friday to shore up his authority after a senior aide resigned over his false claim that the leader of the opposition Labour Party failed to prosecute a notorious child sex abuser. J…
Marketmind: Troubles come in threes…or more
A look at the day ahead in markets from Sujata Rao. Misfortunes don’t come singly, so the idiom goes, and markets are being whiplashed by a whole slew of negatives, that could see this month turn again into the nightmare that was January. For now, stoc…
U.S. faces snags in bid to speed up at-risk Afghan evacuations
By Jonathan Landay and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A lack of flights and the search for a new U.S. reception center are among the hurdles facing the White House as it races to speed up the evacuation of at-risk Afghans from their homeland, accord…
U.S. targets multiple Belarusians’ visas over athlete repression
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday said it was imposing visa restrictions on several Belarusians, citing the repression of athletes abroad including the attempted forced repatriation of a sprinter at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Krystsina …
ISIS leader Quraishi kills himself during Syria raid, U.S. says
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Nandita Bose AMMAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The leader of Islamic State died when he blew himself and family members up during a U.S. military raid in Syria, President Joe Biden said on Thursday, dealing a blow to the jihadist g…
Exclusive-Biden to sign executive order boosting rights of 200,000 construction workers
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Friday requiring “project labor agreements” in federal construction projects over $35 million, a potential boost to construction workers and unions that negotiat…
Hacking team tied to Russia targeted ‘western government entity’ in Ukraine -researchers
By James Pearson and Christopher Bing (Reuters) – A hacking team that Ukraine says is controlled by Russian intelligence targeted a “western government entity” currently in the country, based on new research published by Palo Alto Networks on Thursday….
Jurors struggle with verdict in Michael Avenatti’s fraud trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -The jury in lawyer Michael Avenatti’s criminal trial said on Thursday it was struggling to decide whether he had defrauded porn star Stormy Daniels, who he represented in her legal battle with then-President Donald Trum…
Four aides quit as UK’s Johnson seeks to reset beleaguered premiership
By Michael Holden and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) -Four of Boris Johnson’s closest aides resigned on Thursday in a turbulent day for his government, as the British prime minister tried to reset his administration in the face of a series of scandal…