March 16 (Reuters) – Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi spoke by phone with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump called on allies to create a coalition to reopen the vital waterway. Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said earlier on Monday that Japan had made no decision about dispatching…
HAVANA, March 13 (Reuters) – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is scheduled to address Cuban media on Friday in a rare appearance that comes amid a severe economic crisis and as the Communist government has come under increasing pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump. The appearance “to address issues of national and international importance” is scheduled…
BEIJING, March 8 (Reuters) – U.S.-China dialogue is vital to preventing globally damaging miscalculations, China’s top diplomat said on Saturday, ahead of a highly anticipated summit this month between leaders Xi Jinping and Donald Trump. “Failure to engage between the two nations would only lead to misunderstandings and misjudgements, escalating toward confrontation and harming the…
SYDNEY, March 5 (Reuters) – Australia and Canada on Wednesday signed a series of new agreements on critical minerals, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said, including Australia joining the G7 minerals alliance. Western nations have been attempting to diversify their supply chains away from China, which still controls the majority of production and processing of…
Feb 28 (Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday. “Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” Trump said on Truth Social, without elaborating on the source of the information. (Reporting by Ismail Shakil; Editing by Cynthia Osterman) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters….
MEXICO CITY, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Mexico’s government said on Thursday it has launched legal action to compel Millon, an auction house in the French capital, to halt this week’s planned sale of 40 pre-Colombian artifacts Mexico considers its cultural heritage. Mexico has launched “appropriate legal proceedings before the relevant authorities” and reached out through…
PARIS, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Charles Kushner shows no interest in learning French, pays little heed to the strict codes of Parisian bureaucracy and causes consternation in the nation that shaped modern diplomacy. Since arriving in Paris last summer, President Donald Trump’s top emissary to France has upended French expectations of how a U.S. ambassador…
Feb 22 (Reuters) – United States negotiators are ready to hold another round of talks with Iran on Friday in Geneva if they receive a detailed Iranian proposal for a nuclear deal in the next 48 hours, Axios reported on Sunday, citing a senior U.S. official. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. (Reporting by…
STUTTGART, Germany, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Germany’s ruling conservatives on Saturday passed a motion to ban social media use for under 14s and introduce more stringent digital verification checks for teenagers, building momentum for such limits in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. At a party conference in the city of Stuttgart, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian…
ANKARA, Feb 18 (Reuters) – A Turkish parliamentary commission was set to vote on Wednesday on adopting a draft report to facilitate the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which would advance a peace process meant to end a more than 40-year conflict. The roughly 60-page report, shared with reporters ahead of the…