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Published by Reuters By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) -New Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday that he received a “strong” message from President Joe Biden about the United States’ commitment to defending the disputed East China Sea islets known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan. In phone talks on Tuesday morning that lasted […]

Published by Reuters By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, exchanged fist bumps with lawmakers after he was formally elected by parliament on Monday, as public broadcaster NHK said he was set to dissolve the body next week and call an election for Oct 31. The surprise move, amid widespread expectations

Published by Reuters By Elizabeth Piper and Kylie MacLellan MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he would not return to “uncontrolled immigration” to solve fuel, gas and Christmas food crises, suggesting such strains were part of a period of post-Brexit adjustment. At the start of his Conservative Party’s conference, Johnson

Published by Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A massive leak of financial documents was published by several major news organizations on Sunday that allegedly tie world leaders to secret stores of wealth, including King Abdullah of Jordan, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The dump of more than 11.9 million records,

Published by Reuters By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said on Sunday the United Nations Security Council applied double standards over military activities among U.N. member states, state media KCNA said, amid international criticism over its recent missile tests. The Council met behind closed doors on Friday upon requests from the United States and

Published by Reuters By Kavya B and Roshan Abraham (Reuters) -Worldwide deaths related to COVID-19 surpassed 5 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, with unvaccinated people particularly exposed to the virulent Delta strain. The variant has exposed the wide disparities in vaccination rates between rich and poor nations, and the upshot of vaccine

Published by Reuters (Corrects to change keyword search for media clients to GLOBAL-ECONOMY/(WRAPUP 2), no changes to text) By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Asia’s manufacturing activity broadly stagnated in September as pandemic-induced factory shutdowns and signs of slowing Chinese growth weighed on the region’s economies, surveys showed on Friday. Countries where large outbreaks of the

Published by Reuters By Sudarshan Varadhan CHENNAI (Reuters) – Indian utilities are scrambling to secure coal supplies as inventories hit critical lows after a surge in power demand from industries and sluggish imports due to record global prices push power plants to the brink. Over half of India’s 135 coal-fired power plants have fuel stocks

Published by Reuters (Reuters) – Myanmar’s currency has lost more than 60% of its value since the beginning of September in a collapse that has driven up food and fuel prices in an economy that has tanked since a military coup eight months ago. “This will rattle the generals as they are quite obsessed with

Published by Reuters By Gabriel Crossley and Shivani Singh SHENYANG, China (Reuters) -China on Wednesday demanded railway companies and local authorities raise their game in shipping vital coal supplies to utilities, as regions key to the world’s no. 2 economy grapple with power cuts that have crippled industrial output. The order, handed down from China’s