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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea’s position as a nuclear weapons state will remain an undeniable reality as it builds up its forces until military threats from the United States and its allies are eliminated, state news agency KCNA said on Friday. It was quoting comments by North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui in a statement criticising the United States and other Group of Seven countries, following a […]

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asian stocks slid toward their worst week in a month-and-a-half on Friday and oil nursed losses, while bonds enjoyed their best bid in weeks as U.S. data and earnings showed signs of weakness. Figures showed more Americans filing claims for jobless benefits and manufacturing activity in the mid-Atlantic region slumping to its lowest level in nearly three years. On the heels of other signals […]

By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – In his living room in Norway, while the TV broadcasts pictures of the violence back home in Khartoum, Khalid Albaih does what he has become known for in the Middle East and beyond: draw cartoons. His latest, entitled The Dog Fight, depicts the two main Sudanese foes, army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, as dogs fighting over […]

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s financial system has remained “sound and resilient” despite heightened financial sector jitters in the West stemming from U.S. bank failures in March, the Bank of Japan said in its semi-annual financial system report. However, the central bank also said that vigilance against tail risks were warranted. “Future developments remain highly uncertain as financial and capital markets have been nervous,” the bank said in […]

(Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur’s managing director of football, Fabio Paratici, has resigned after his appeal against a 30-month ban from football was rejected by Italy’s top sports body, the Premier League club said on Friday. Paratici lodged his appeal in Italy after being banned by soccer’s world governing body FIFA over his role in transfer deals and finances while at former club Juventus. He joined Tottenham in 2021 following an […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian Sukhoi-34 supersonic warplane accidentally fired a weapon into the city of Belgorod near Ukraine late on Thursday, causing an explosion and injuring three people. Video footage from the site showed piles of concrete on the street, several damaged cars and a building with broken windows. One shot showed what appeared to be car upside down on the roof of a store. Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov […]

RAMSTEIN, Germany (Reuters) – All NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will eventually become a member of the alliance but the main focus now is to ensure the country prevails against Russia, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday. Speaking ahead of a meeting of the Ukraine defence contact group at Ramstein air base in Germany, he also told reporters that, once the war in Ukraine ends, Kyiv must have […]

(Reuters) -Twitter dropped the “Government-funded Media” tag, which implies government involvement in editorial content, on some accounts like National Public Radio (NPR) and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), their accounts showed on Friday. Besides NPR and CBC, the tag, labeled ‘state-affiliated media’ earlier, was also absent from the British Broadcasting Corp’s (BBC) Twitter account. Earlier this month, NPR and CBC paused their activities on the social media platform, arguing that the […]

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s ruling party on Friday endorsed a provincial governor, Ganjar Pranowo, as its candidate in the 2024 presidential election. Ganjar, governor of one of the Indonesia’s most populous provinces, Central Java, is up against former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan and ex-special forces commander Prabowo Subianto, in what is expected to be a hotly contested race to lead the world’s third-largest democracy. The announcement was made at a […]