By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) -The United States and Japan need to work together to align their defence forces in the face of an increasingly assertive China, new U.S. Ambassador George Glass said upon his arrival in Tokyo on Friday. “We sit with Japan in a very tough neighbourhood. You have Russia, you have China, …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry dismissed as “groundless” on Friday an accusation by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that the country had been supplying weapons to Russia. Despite maintaining close economic ties with Russia during Moscow’s three-year war in Ukraine, China has sought to project an image of neutrality and denies any involvement in the …
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By Takaya Yamaguchi, Leika Kihara and Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is “deeply concerned” about global economic fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Thursday in the government’s strongest warning yet as the two nations began trade talks. In an interview with Reuters in Tokyo hours after the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department on Thursday accused a Chinese firm, Chang Guang Satellite Technology, of directly supporting attacks on U.S. interests by Iran-backed Houthi fighters and called this “unacceptable”. Earlier, the Financial Times cited U.S. officials as saying that the satellite company, linked to China’s military, was supplying Houthi rebels with imagery to …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Thursday suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organisation, in a move that paves the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the leadership of Afghanistan. No country currently recognises the Taliban government that seized power in August 2021 as …
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By Francesco Guarascio (Reuters) -Chinese leader Xi Jinping urged Cambodia to “resist protectionism” as he arrived in Phnom Penh on Thursday at the end of a three-nation tour of Southeast Asia, with U.S. tariffs threatening the economies of both countries. Cambodia is a major exporter of clothing and footwear to the United States, and was …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Thursday it had received only a fraction of an emergency appeal for 100 million Swiss francs ($122.40 million) to help recovery efforts after Myanmar’s powerful quake last month. The 7.7 magnitude quake on March 28, one of …
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By Nathan Layne and John Geddie WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump touted “big progress” in tariff talks with Japan on Wednesday, in one of the first rounds of face-to-face negotiations since his barrage of duties on global imports roiled markets and stoked recession fears. Japan had not expected the president to get involved in Wednesday’s …
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MANILA (Reuters) – Four people, including a Chinese national, have died and seven others are still missing off a western Philippine province after a dredging vessel carrying 25 people capsized two days ago, the Philippine Coast Guard said on Thursday. The MV Hong Hai 16 was carrying 2,000 litres of lube oil and 30,000 litres …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China will pay no attention if the United States continues to play the “tariff numbers game”, China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, after the White House outline how China faces tariffs of up to 245% due to its retaliatory actions. In a fact sheet released on Tuesday, the White House said China’s total …
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