SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has set up a “reciprocal” platform in a disputed area of the Yellow Sea, known in Seoul as the West Sea, where China has increasingly built structures, Oceans Minister Kang Do-hyung said on Wednesday. China says its structures are fish farming equipment, but they have raised alarm bells in Seoul …
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By Michael Martina, Patricia Zengerle and Erin Banco WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China remains the top military and cyber threat to the U.S., according to a report by U.S. intelligence agencies published on Tuesday that said Beijing was making “steady but uneven” progress on capabilities it could use to capture Taiwan. China has the ability to hit …
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By Luc Cohen and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration on Tuesday night argued that two planes carrying Venezuelan deportees did not violate a judge’s order to halt such removals, digging into its defense over its use of a rarely invoked wartime authority. Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg last week instructed Justice Department …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump indicated on Tuesday that a colleague who worked for national security adviser Mike Waltz had been involved in adding a journalist to a secret group discussion by U.S. officials about sensitive war plans. “What it was, we believe, is somebody that was on the line with permission, somebody …
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By Tom Hals DOVER, Delaware (Reuters) -Delaware lawmakers approved on Tuesday an overhaul of the state’s corporate law in a bid to keep powerful business leaders like Mark Zuckerberg from moving their companies’ legal home to another state, although opponents call it a giveaway to billionaires. The law, known as SB 21, was approved by …
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By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Humeyra Pamuk ANKARA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Turkey and the United States want to remove obstacles to defence industry cooperation, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said on Wednesday, after talks between the NATO allies’ top diplomats in Washington. On Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan kicked off a two-day visit to Washington, where he …
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By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – Police in ex-Soviet Moldova detained the leader of the country’s pro-Russian Gagauz ethnic minority at Chisinau’s international airport late on Tuesday, following the unexplained disappearance of two other wanted pro-Russian lawmakers. Eugenia Gutul, the leader, or bashkan, of Gagauzia, was being held for 72 hours in the capital, said …
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By James Pearson LONDON (Reuters) -The president of Signal defended the messaging app’s security on Wednesday after top Trump administration officials mistakenly included a journalist in an encrypted chatroom they used to discuss looming U.S. military action against Yemen’s Houthis. Signal’s Meredith Whittaker did not directly address the blunder, which Democratic lawmakers have said was a …
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By Leah Douglas, P.J. Huffstutter, Renee Hickman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration, according to Reuters interviews with organizations in seven states. Hunger in the …
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By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) above-ground power line near the Pacific Palisades was energized when the Palisades Fire began early this year, but that there is no evidence that the line contributed to the blaze, the municipal utility said on Tuesday. The transmission line …
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