TAIPEI, Aug 18 (Reuters) – The United States and Taiwan have agreed to start trade talks under a new initiative to reach agreements with “economically meaningful outcomes”, with a Taiwan official saying China’s “economic coercion” would be also be discussed. Washington and Taipei unveiled the U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade in June, just days after...
By Amjad Mahmood Every tribe, ethnicity, empire, dynasty, and nation for ages has held some form of authority, power, and influence during different segments of recorded history. This instinct stemmed from basic human traits to fight, resist, survive on its own terms, adapt somewhere and forcing own will whenever possible or permitted. Each seat of...
KYIV, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Ukraine and Russia accused each other on Friday of risking nuclear disaster by shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces in a region expected to become one of the next big front lines of the war. Western countries have called for Moscow to withdraw its troops from...
MOSCOW/LONDON, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Kazakhstan is expected to sell some of its crude oil through Azerbaijan’s biggest oil pipeline from September, as the nation seeks alternatives to a route Russia threatened to shut, three sources familiar with the matter said. Kazakh oil exports account for more than 1% of world supplies, or roughly 1.4...
WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – China’s war games around Taiwan have led Biden administration officials to recalibrate their thinking on whether to scrap some tariffs or potentially impose others on Beijing, setting those options aside for now, according to sources familiar with the deliberations. President Joe Biden’s team has been wrestling for months with various...
TAIPEI/BEIJING, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Chinese navy ships remained active off both Taiwan’s east and west coasts on Wednesday morning, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters, as Beijing kept up military drills in protest against last week’s visit to the island by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A furious China has extended its...
WASHINGTON, August 9. /TASS/. US President Joe Biden has signed protocols on the ratification of agreements on Finland’s and Sweden’s accession to NATO, a TASS correspondent reported on Tuesday. Biden signed the documents during a ceremony in the White House. He called on other NATO member countries to approve these countries’ joining the alliance as...
Aug 8 (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for international inspectors to be given access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over the shelling of Europe’s largest atomic plant at the weekend. “Any attack to a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing,” Guterres told a news conference...
BEIJING, Aug 8 (Reuters) – China’s defence ministry on Monday defended its shelving of military talks with the United States in protest against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei last week, warning that Washington must bear “serious consequences.” Pelosi’s visit last week infuriated China, which regards the self-ruled island as its own and responded...
GAZA/JERUSALEM, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Israel and Palestinian militants have agreed to a truce in Gaza from Sunday evening as mediated by Cairo, sources said, after a weekend-long pounding of Palestinian targets by Israel triggered longer-range rocket attacks against its cities. An Egyptian security source said Israel had agreed to the proposal, while a Palestinian...