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By Steve Holland and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said that in a call on Monday Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan repeated Ankara’s desire to buy F-16 fighter jets from the United States, while Biden responded that Washington was keen to see Ankara drop its objection to Sweden’s joining NATO. The exchange took place when Biden called Erdogan to congratulate him on his victory in Turkey’s presidential election […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said it will launch its first military reconnaissance satellite in June to counter “reckless military acts” by the United States, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. (Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi; Editing by Leslie Adler) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said it will launch its first military reconnaissance satellite in June to counter “reckless military acts” by the United States, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. (Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi; Editing by Leslie Adler) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s federal government and the Quebec province will each provide about C$150 million ($112 million) for a General Motors-POSCO Chemical battery materials facility that is expected create about 200 jobs in the country, the Canadian industry ministry said on Monday. The U.S. carmaker and South Korea’s POSCO outlined their plan last year to build the facility in Becancour, Quebec, to produce cathode active material (CAM) for electric […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s federal government and the Quebec province will each provide about C$150 million ($112 million) for a General Motors-POSCO Chemical battery materials facility that is expected create about 200 jobs in the country, the Canadian industry ministry said on Monday. The U.S. carmaker and South Korea’s POSCO outlined their plan last year to build the facility in Becancour, Quebec, to produce cathode active material (CAM) for electric […]

By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – A court in El Salvador sentenced former President Mauricio Funes and his justice minister to more than a decade behind bars for their ties to criminal groups and failure to comply with duties, the attorney general’s office said on Monday. Funes was sentenced to 14 years and his former justice and defense minister, David Munguia, to 18. “We were able to verify that […]

By Julien Pretot and Shrivathsa Sridhar PARIS (Reuters) – Serbian world number three Novak Djokovic risked stirring up a political controversy at the French Open on Monday after writing a message about Kosovo following his first-round victory. “Kosovo is the heart of Serbia. Stop the violence,” 22-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic wrote on a camera lens in Serbian. Around 25 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo […]

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) remains in touch with Pakistan’s authorities in order to pave the way for a board meeting before a financing program expires at the end of June, the IMF mission chief for Pakistan said. Ordinarily, a board meeting on a review of the program would require a prior staff-level agreement, which in Pakistan’s case would unlock $1.1 billion in […]

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) continues engagement with the Pakistani authorities to pave the way for a board meeting before the current program expires at end of June, the IMF mission chief for Pakistan said. A staff-level agreement on the review has been delayed since November, with more than 100 days passed since the last staff level mission to Pakistan, the longest such delay since at […]