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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s opposition parties, which defeated their military-allied rivals in this week’s election, met for coalition talks on Wednesday as the liberal Move Forward Party, which won the most votes, looked to form a government. Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat was seen greeting senior officials from five other parties at a Bangkok restaurant before ushering them upstairs for closed-door talks. Sunday’s vote saw Move Forward come in first ahead […]

By Kate Holton and Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) – British car plants will close with the loss of thousands of jobs unless the Brexit deal is swiftly renegotiated, Stellantis has warned, as Ford added its voice to the latest warning from the auto industry since Britain left the European Union. Stellantis, the world’s No. 3 carmaker by sales and owner of 14 brands including Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat told […]

By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) -Ford on Wednesday called for post-Brexit EU trade requirements on rules of origin for electric vehicles (EVs) to delayed until 2027 from 2024, saying tariffs will add pointless costs for consumers and slow the transition to electric. “Ford is calling for current trade requirements to be extended to 2027, to allow time for the battery supply chain to develop in Europe and to meet EV […]

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey summoned the German ambassador in Ankara on Wednesday to express condemnation and protest over the detention in Germany of two journalists from a pro-government Turkish newspaper, the Foreign Ministry said. The public prosecutor’s office in Darmstadt said police had searched the private apartments of two journalists aged 46 and 51 in the western town of Moerfelden-Walldorf on suspicion of dangerous dissemination of personal data. Investigators confiscated electronic […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden will continue talks with congressional leaders on the United States’ debt limit later this week, the White House said on Wednesday, as U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy vowed to avoid a default. “I think at the end of the day, we do not have a debt default,” McCarthy said in an interview with CNBC. “The thing I’m confident about is now we have a structure […]

By Huseyin Hayatsever and Burcu Karakas ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey’s main opposition party said on Wednesday it had filed complaints over suspected irregularities at thousands of ballot boxes in Sunday’s landmark elections, in which President Tayyip Erdogan performed better than expected. However, opposition party officials said the objections were unlikely to alter the result of the presidential vote, which is headed to a runoff on May 28 between Erdogan and challenger […]

(Reuters) – A Ukrainian-born activist was jailed for seven years by a Russian court on Wednesday for “justifying terrorism”, according to a Telegram channel petitioning for his release.Mikhail Krieger, 63, was arrested last November over social media posts he wrote in 2020 in which he praised two men who staged attacks on buildings of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) as “heroes”. Prosecutors also said Krieger had “incited hatred” when he […]

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The last ship left a port in Ukraine on Wednesday under a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain a day before Russia could quit the pact over obstacles to its grain and fertilizer exports. The DSM Capella has left the port of Chornomorsk carrying 30,000 tonnes of corn and was on its way to Turkey, according to data issued by […]

By Aziz El Yaakoubi RIYADH(Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a pariah for more than a decade, is expected to steal the spotlight at Friday’s Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia, where he will rub shoulders with regional leaders who once backed his war foes. Ostracised by most Arab states following his crackdown on protests against his rule in 2011 and the ensuing civil war, his government’s return to the […]