By Reuters Staff SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said levels of happiness among all ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang are rising and that China plans to keep teaching its residents a “correct” outlook on China, Xinhua news agency reported late on Saturday. China has come under scrutiny over its treatment of […]
By Reuters Staff WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress, said on Sunday she thinks a deal can be reached with the White House on a coronavirus relief package and that talks were continuing. “We are having our conversations. And when I have a conversation with the administration, it […]
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats are urging U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from any election-related cases because of President Donald Trump’s comments that he expects the justices to potentially decide the outcome, but there is no way to force her to do so. Although U.S. law requires justices […]
WORLD Several people were injured after water cannons were fired and more than ten people had been taken into custody. Reuters WORLD Minsk: Belarusian security forces began detaining people and fired water cannon to disperse crowds as thousands took to the streets of Minsk in protest against the abrupt inauguration of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday. Ignoring calls for an end […]
ANALYSIS ECONOMY Calls to ‘reglobalise’ as quickly as possible do not offer a desirable route out of this global recession. Rashmi Banga ECONOMY WORLD The pandemic has exposed the fault lines of the hyper-globalised world. The discontents of hyper-globalisation that began in the 1980s include high levels of inequality, rising concentration of rents, declining labour […]
Tensions between the US and China came to the fore of the annual UN General Assembly in New York, with US President Donald Trump blaming China for the spread of coronavirus. He called for China to be held “accountable” for the pandemic. In his speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country had “no intention […]
Ministers have ruled out changes to make it easier for trans people to have their gender legally recognised. They have rejected calls, backed in a 2018 consultation, for people to be able to change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis. Ministers said reform of the 2004 Gender Recognition Act was not the “top priority” […]
Indigenous groups have condemned the proposal, slamming it as showing “total disregard” for their rights. Mauricio Angelo BRASILIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Brazilian government proposal to open indigenous land in Brazil to mining concessions could lead to the loss of forests over an area larger than England, researchers said Friday. Such a loss would […]
The ban was being introduced for political reasons, TikTok and ByteDance alleged in their complaint. Reuters TECH WORLD Washington: Popular video-sharing app TikTok has asked a US judge to block the Trump administration from enforcing a ban on the Chinese social media network, according to court documents filed late on Friday. TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance Ltd., filed a complaint in a Washington Federal Court challenging the recent prohibitory moves by the Trump administration. The US Commerce Department […]
By Reuters Staff BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s army said it had found 1.3 tonnes of fireworks during a search of Beirut port, which was devastated last month in a huge blast that was blamed on a large quantity of chemicals kept in poor condition. The army said in a statement, released on its website on […]
