BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s government has filed a request for consultations at the World Trade Organization over the tariffs imposed by the United States on goods from that country, it said in a statement on Wednesday. President Donald Trump slapped a 50% tariff on U.S. imports from Brazil, with many exemptions, in response to what he …
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(Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff made “great progress” in his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Trump updated some of Washington’s European allies after the meeting. “My Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff, just had a highly productive meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Trump said in a post …
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By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year, research released on Wednesday showed, following a mass bleaching of its corals that was among the worst on record. The Australian Institute of Marine Sciences said the reef …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy spoke by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The source said the call was still underway. U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier on Wednesday. (Reporting by Tom Balmforth; editing by Gareth …
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s coming nomination of a new member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors will focus attention on the plans of three others appointed by his predecessor, as well as Fed Chair Jerome Powell himself, who combined could offer a powerful counterweight against any efforts to overhaul monetary …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to speak to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday after U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff meets with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Axios reported, citing source familiar. (Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones and Maiya Keidan; Editing by Caitlin Webber)
By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s former first lady Kim Keon Hee apologised on Wednesday and called herself “a nobody” as she appeared for questioning by investigators on a string of corruption charges that plagued her husband’s term before it ended abruptly. Kim and ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol are under separate investigations by special …
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By Barbara Erling and Alan Charlish WARSAW (Reuters) -New Polish President Karol Nawrocki vowed on Wednesday to change the country’s constitution to protect its sovereignty in an address to parliament after his inauguration that set the scene for a battle with the government over democratic standards. Nationalist Nawrocki’s speech began what looks set to be …
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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey has arrested an LGBTQ+ youth activist over criticism he made abroad at Europe’s main rights body about the repression of opponents by President Tayyip Erdogan’s government. Enes Hocaogullari, 23, gave a speech in Strasbourg in March criticising police violence and detentions plus democratic backsliding in Turkey, saying: “The youth has had enough …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A man accused of passing Russian satellite secrets to the United States has been arrested for suspected treason and placed in pre-trial detention, a court in the Russian city of Kaliningrad said on Wednesday. The court, in a statement on Telegram, identified the suspect only as “O” and said he was a former …
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