Taiwan security officials want Foxconn to drop stake in Chinese chipmaker – FT
Taiwan's national security officials want to persuade Apple Inc's supplier Foxconn to unwind an $800 million investment in Chinese chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup, the Financial...
Ukraine suggests partisans behind blasts at Russian airbase in Crimea
A senior Ukrainian official suggested a series of explosions at a Russian air base in Crimea could have been the work of partisan saboteurs,...
Democrats, Republicans sponsor bill to give thousands of Afghans path to citizenship
WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in both houses of U.S. Congress to establish a path to American citizenship for...
Former Twitter employee is convicted in Saudi spy case
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK - A former Twitter Inc. manager accused of spying for Saudi Arabia was convicted on Tuesday on six criminal counts, including...
Colombia has detected $20 bln likely tied to money laundering -official
BOGOTA - Colombia's financial crimes unit, intensifying efforts to catch fraud, has detected some $20 billion in financial operations potentially tied to money laundering...
China drills part of game plan for invasion — Taiwan Foreign chief
TAIPEI — Taiwan’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that China was using the military drills it launched in protest against US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit as a game-plan to prepare for an invasion of the self-ruled island.
Trump says FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago home
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledged was part of an investigation into Mr. Trump’s removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida resort.
Summertime blues? UK shoppers splash out as heat-wave hits
LONDON — A heat-wave prompted British shoppers to spend more on summer clothes, food for picnics and air conditioning units in July but they also cut back on foreign travel and dining out as the cost-of-living squeeze tightened, surveys showed on Tuesday.
Ocean warmth, seaweed scarcity threaten Fiji’s fisherwomen’s livelihoods
SUVA, Fiji — Karen Vusisa has been struggling to find a decent catch of a favorite Fijian edible seaweed, amid concerns that ocean temperatures have hit harvests and are threatening livelihoods of fisherwomen like her.
More Chinese women delay or give up on having babies after zero-COVID ordeal
HONG KONG - Seeing Chinese authorities exercise extraordinary powers during a stringent COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai earlier this year altered Claire Jiang's life plans: she no longer wants to have babies in China.
During...
Rating agencies expect US spending bill to cut inflation, deficit over time
WASHINGTON - A sweeping bill passed by the US Senate on Sunday and intended to fight climate change, lower drug prices and raise some corporate taxes, will bring down inflation over the...
Ukraine, Russia trade blame for nuclear plant shelling amid global alarm
KYIV - Kyiv and Moscow traded blame on Monday for the weekend shelling of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex amid international alarm that their battle for control of the plant could trigger catastrophe.
Calling any attack on a nuclear plant "suicidal", United Nations chief Antonio...