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After Griner trial, Kremlin says: we’ll not discuss swaps in public
(Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that possible prisoner exchanges with the United States should not be discussed in public because if they were then they would never take place. Speaking a day a...
Aug 05, 2022
White House summons Chinese ambassador for rebuke on Taiwan response – Washington Post
(Reuters) - The White House summoned Chinese ambassador Qin Gang on Thursday to condemn escalating actions against Taiwan and reiterate that the United States does not want a crisis in the region, the...
Aug 05, 2022
Flash floods kill over 500 people in Pakistan during heaviest rains in decades
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern provinc...
Aug 05, 2022
China summons Canadian diplomat over G7 statement on Taiwan
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry said on Friday that it summoned Beijing-based Canadian diplomat Jim Nickel over Canada's participation in a statement issued by the foreign ministers from ...
Aug 05, 2022
BoE’s Bailey rebuffs talk of less central bank independence in UK
LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey pushed back against suggestions by the front-runner to become Britain's next prime minister Liz Truss and her supporters that the government sh...
Aug 05, 2022
Papua New Guinea PM says he can form a govt as vote counting continues
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape said his party has the numbers to form a coalition government, after a national poll plagued by violence, fraud allegations and large nu...
Aug 05, 2022
Analysis-Japanese backing for military build-up likely to rise after China’s missiles
By Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO (Reuters) -China's firing of missiles into waters less than 160 km (100 miles) from Japan in a display of might after Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan will likely bolst...
Aug 05, 2022
Russian-backed separatists say they have taken Pisky village in east Ukraine – TASS
(Reuters) - Russian and pro-Russian forces have taken full control of Pisky, a village on the outskirts of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, TASS news agency cited separatist forces as saying on Friday. The...
Aug 05, 2022
Japan PM Kishida to reshuffle cabinet as early as Aug 10 -NHK
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida intends to reshuffle his cabinet as early as Aug. 10, public broadcaster NHK said on Friday. The reshuffle would come after his conservative coa...
Aug 05, 2022
China says Japan’s Taiwan stance justifies the ‘wrongdoers’
BEIJING (Reuters) - Japanese officials' recent statements on the current tensions in the Taiwan Strait were an attempt to justify the "wrongdoers", Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying s...
Aug 05, 2022
