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By Tom Westbrook and Junko Fujita TOKYO, June 15 (Reuters) – War in the Middle East pushed the yen to the brink of multi-decade lows and prompted the government to prop it up — a peace deal, however, won’t pull it back from the precipice. Stocks and bonds soared on Monday on news of the planned Iran-U.S. halt to a war that has inflamed global inflation expectations, particularly in energy […]

BEIJING, June 15 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing arrived in Beijing on Monday for a five-day visit at the invitation of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, China’s state media reported, marking his first trip to the world’s second-largest economy since being elected president. Min Aung Hlaing, 69, the former junta chief who was the architect of a 2021 coup that led to civil war in Myanmar and a wave of […]

The United States and Iran have reached an interim deal aimed at ending the war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. There are plans for a signing of the deal on Friday in Switzerland. However, previous announcements fell through, and what the deal contained remained in dispute Monday. Here’s a timeline of the tensions over Iran’s atomic program: 1967 — Iran takes possession of the Tehran Research Reactor supplied by […]

In the shadow of Tennessee’s Signal and Lookout mountains, 8-year-old Beckham balanced on a fence for more than three hours, gripping a handwritten note and waiting for Spain’s national team to emerge. “I love you and I look up to you,” the note addressed to Pedri and Lamine Yamal read. “Thanks for coming to my city. I hope you win the World Cup.” As the players ran onto the field, […]

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Iranian Americans are torn over Iran’s participation in the World Cup, as some community members plan to watch Monday’s match and others plan to protest outside the stadium where the team will play. A rally is planned for outside the stadium near Los Angeles, home to the largest Iranian community outside Iran. Many of Southern California’s Iranian Americans arrived after the Islamic Revolution, and a hub […]

By Julia Payne and Ernest Scheyder ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, France, June 15 (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s push to boost critical minerals production by regulating prices is facing skeptical G7 allies and a divided mining industry, with negotiations for a Western trading bloc stumbling over concerns about the plan’s cost and governance, according to diplomatic sources and a Reuters analysis of corporate policy recommendations. First proposed by U.S. Vice President JD Vance in February, […]

By Tim Cocks DURBAN, South Africa, June 15 (Reuters) – When 33-year-old Princess Adjei set up her hair salon in downtown Durban in November, she had lived in South Africa since moving from Ghana as a toddler; there was no other place she called home. Adjei did all her schooling in South Africa, has local friends and speaks Zulu, the lingua franca of this eastern port city. It had rarely […]

HONG KONG, June 15 (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s leader John Lee shrugged off a question on whether he would seek a second term in office, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday, and said he was focused on accomplishing much more in his final year. “A year is a long time in politics,” Lee said in an interview with the Post, as he deflected the question of extending his […]

June 15 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Monday warned that the U.S. will “have no choice” but to apply 100% tariffs on French wine unless Paris eliminates its digital tax on American tech giants. Trump said he delivered the warning directly to French President Emmanuel Macron, demanding he remove the 3% tax on U.S. tech giants or face duties in the American market.  “I asked him not to charge American […]