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China, Africa ask US to return to ‘right track’ on trade differences

11 Jun 2025

HONG KONG (Reuters) -China and 53 African countries called on nations, especially the United States, to return to the “right track” of resolving trade differences, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. The statement came after China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with African officials in the city of Changsha located in southern Hunan …

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Record number of people displaced by violence in Haiti, UN agency says

11 Jun 2025

GENEVA (Reuters) -A record 1.3 million people have been forced to leave their homes in Haiti due to a surge in armed violence in the last six months, according to the UN agency for migration. The number of people internally displaced in the Caribbean country has jumped 24% since December, according to the International Organization …

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Turkish court issues arrest warrant for owner of pro-opposition TV channel

11 Jun 2025

ANKARA (Reuters) -An Istanbul court has issued an arrest warrant for the owner of a television channel aligned with Turkey’s main opposition party on charges of bid-rigging, the prosecutor’s office said late on Tuesday. The arrest warrant for Cafer Mahiroglu, owner of Halk TV, was issued as part of an investigation into an alleged criminal …

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U.S.-Russian talks to take place in Moscow, Russian envoy says

11 Jun 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Talks between the United States and Russia on resolving issues in their bilateral relations will move to Moscow from Istanbul, Russia’s new ambassador to Washington told the state TASS news agency. “The recovery of Russian-American relations is still a long way off,” Ambassador Alexander Darchiev told TASS, adding that the rapprochement with Moscow …

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Argentina top court draws curtain on Cristina Kirchner’s political era

11 Jun 2025

By Leila Miller and Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina’s top court effectively banned two-term former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from office and upheld a six-year jail sentence, likely drawing a curtain on one of the country’s most flamboyant and divisive political careers. Kirchner, 72, a polarizing opposition figure and leftist president from 2007 …

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US envoy says he does not think Palestinian state is US policy goal

11 Jun 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Washington’s ambassador to Israel said he did not think an independent Palestinian state remains a U.S. foreign policy goal, prompting the State Department to say he spoke for himself while the White House referred to past comments from President Donald Trump expressing doubts about a two-state solution. “I don’t think so,” U.S. Ambassador …

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Lutnick says US-China trade framework should resolve rare earth issue

11 Jun 2025

LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Wednesday that a trade framework and implementation plan agreed with China in London should result in restrictions on rare earths and magents being resolved. Lutnick told reporters the U.S. negotiating team would take the framework back to President Donald Trump to get his approval, and then …

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Austrians endure shock, horror after gunman kills 10 at school

11 Jun 2025

By Francois Murphy GRAZ, Austria (Reuters) -Austrians were dumbfounded by grief and horror after a 21-year-old gunman killed 10 people in a high school shooting spree on Tuesday morning, unleashing a new kind of violence to the Alpine country unaccustomed to such slayings. Parents of pupils, top government officials and local residents in the southern …

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US farm agency to allow three more states to bar some items from food aid

11 Jun 2025

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday signed waivers allowing Arkansas, Idaho and Utah to bar participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from using their benefits to buy certain processed foods like soda and candy. The administration of President Donald Trump has encouraged all states to …

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Bolsonaro denies orchestrating Brazil coup in Supreme Court testimony

10 Jun 2025

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro denied that he led an attempt to overthrow the government after losing the 2022 election during his trial before the country’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, but acknowledged taking part in meetings aimed at reversing the outcome. Bolsonaro said he and senior aides discussed alternatives to accepting the electoral …

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