By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) – China would back Russia diplomatically and perhaps economically if it invades Ukraine, worsening Beijing’s already strained relations with the West, but would stop short of providing military support, experts said. U…
Olympics-Organisers scramble as weather disrupts penultimate day
By Simon Evans YANQING, China (Reuters) -Organisers scrambled to reorganise the Alpine mixed team parallel race for the final day of the Beijing Olympics after high winds on Saturday forced the competition to be postponed. Team officials and organisers…
Oath Keepers founder to remain in jail until sedition trial, U.S. judge rules
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -The founder of the Oath Keepers militia, Stewart Rhodes, will remain in jail until his seditious conspiracy trial for allegedly helping plot the assault on the U.S. Capitol, a U.S. judge said, calling him a “clear and convincing…
Biden says Putin has decided to invade Ukraine
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Friday that Russia President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, and that he continues to spread false information to try to build a pretext for a military strike that could h…
Trump took classified material from White House to Florida, National Archives says
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump took classified information to his Florida home after leaving the White House, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration said in a letter to Congress on Friday about t…
U.S. Supreme Court to hear ‘remain in Mexico’ immigration dispute
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear President Joe Biden’s bid to rescind a hardline immigration policy begun under his predecessor Donald Trump that forced tens of thousands of migrants to stay in Mexico to await …
Wife of U.S. naval engineer pleads guilty in plot to sell secrets
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) – The wife of a former U.S. naval engineer pleaded guilty on Friday to helping her husband try to sell secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines to an unknown foreign country. The guilty plea by Diana Toebbe, 46, was part of a deal w…
Wife of U.S. naval engineer pleads guilty in plot to sell secrets
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) – The wife of a former U.S. naval engineer pleaded guilty on Friday to helping her husband try to sell secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines to an unknown foreign country. The guilty plea by Diana Toebbe, 46, was part of a deal w…
Wall Street ends lower as investors eye Ukraine conflict
By Susan Mathew and Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main stock indexes ended lower on Friday as escalating tensions in Ukraine and U.S. statements of an imminent Russian invasion prompted investors to dump risky assets in the run-up to a long …
Canada police tow trucks, step up arrests to clear Ottawa protests
By Steve Scherer and David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -Police began towing trucks from central Ottawa on Friday and stepped up arrests of protesters in a bid to end a trucker-led movement that has blockaded Canada’s capital for three weeks and embarras…