By Chen Aizhu and Siyi Liu SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Trade of Venezuelan oil to top buyer China stalled on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump’s order threatening tariffs on countries buying from Caracas created fresh uncertainty, days after U.S. sanctions targeting China’s imports from Iran. Trump’s order, which caught traders and refiners in China by …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 23 Palestinians on Tuesday, local health officials said, as the Israeli military expanded evacuation orders to tens of thousands of residents across the enclave. The Israeli military resumed its campaign against Hamas in Gaza a week ago, shattering a two-month …
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By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -Alaskan state representatives led by the governor and including energy officials visited South Korea on Tuesday to discuss energy cooperation, amid a push for U.S. allies in Asia to join a stalled gas pipeline project touted by President Donald Trump. Governor Mike Dunleavy’s delegation includes officials from the Glanfarne Group …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng met Blackstone’s Chairman Stephen Schwarzman in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, stating that the Chinese side said it welcomed more U.S.-funded enterprises and long-term capital. China’s He said that the country’s economic development was improving and that prospects were brighter. “We welcome …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A power outage left different towns in the southern Mexican state of Quintana Roo, including the popular tourist destination Cancun, without electricity, local media reported on Monday evening. It was not immediately clear what caused the latest outage and state-owned utility CFE, a near-monopoly that produces around 99% of the country’s …
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By Noel Randewich (Reuters) -The S&P 500 rose sharply to end at its highest in over two weeks on Monday, lifted by Nvidia and Tesla following signs that the Trump administration might take a more measured approach on tariffs against U.S. trading partners. U.S. President Donald Trump said automobile tariffs are coming soon, and said …
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By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – In the impoverished Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa 21-24, 68-year-old painter Heriberto Ayala still remembers how Pope Francis, then Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an archbishop, came to visit regularly on the number 70 bus and break bread with locals. He recalled one time sharing a beer. “We had pitchers …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Korean American Columbia University student, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, sued the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday to prevent her deportation, a court filing showed. Yunseo Chung, 21, has lived in the U.S. since she was seven, but her …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will in the very near future announce tariffs on automobiles, aluminum and pharmaceuticals. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said the United States would need all those products if there were problems including wars. “We’ve been ripped off by every country,” Trump said …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -There could be 2,000 new HIV infections a day across the world and a ten-fold increase in related deaths if funding frozen by the United States is not restored or replaced, the United Nations AIDS agency said on Monday. President Donald Trump put almost all U.S. foreign aid on …
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