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(Reuters) – Apple Inc is considering bidding for streaming rights of a range of English football games, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the situation. The rights under consideration would allow Apple to show Premier League games in the UK, as well as lower league matches run by the English Football League, the report said. Apple and the Premier League did not immediately respond to Reuters request […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China and the Philippines should manage their differences properly, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday, after the first in-person meeting between senior diplomats from the countries since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Bilateral tensions have risen recently over naval disputes in contested areas of the South China Sea and the increasing U.S. military presence in the Philippines. “Both sides reaffirmed the importance of properly managing differences through […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China and the Philippines should manage their differences properly, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday, after the first in-person meeting between senior diplomats from the countries since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Bilateral tensions have risen recently over naval disputes in contested areas of the South China Sea and the increasing U.S. military presence in the Philippines. “Both sides reaffirmed the importance of properly managing differences through […]

By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new U.S. congressional committee on China will hold its second hearing on Thursday, seeking to highlight what Washington says is an ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang region. Rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses, including forced labor, mass surveillance and the placement of 1 million or more Uyghurs – a mainly Muslim ethnic group – in a network […]

By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The United States does not see an imminent threat of China invading Taiwan but is ready to defend the self-ruled island, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday in Singapore. Tensions have simmered between the two major powers as China becomes more assertive in its territorial claims over Taiwan and in the South China Sea, while the United States shores up alliances across the […]

By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris may not have won over America in her first two years in office, but she’s staying put at President Joe Biden’s side. The first woman vice president is gearing up for another national campaign despite low poll ratings, a failure to win over the Washington establishment and concern among fellow Democrats about an underwhelming start in […]

By Marek Strzelecki and Kacper Pempel WADOWICE, Poland(Reuters) – A controversy over John Paul II’s legacy looks set to spur some undecided voters in Polish elections due by November, political analysts say, as allegations that the late pope concealed child abuse deepen rifts in the predominantly Catholic country. Claims in a new book and TV documentary that the late pope, born Karol Wojtyla, knowingly hid clerical paedophilia scandals as archbishop […]

By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris may not have won over America in her first two years in office, but she’s staying put at President Joe Biden’s side. The first woman vice president is gearing up for another national campaign despite low poll ratings, a failure to win over the Washington establishment and concern among fellow Democrats about an underwhelming start in […]

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Even with a nod to greater banking stress, the major central banks all seem determined to tighten the monetary screw another notch. After the Federal Reserve settled on another quarter point rate rise late Wednesday, the Swiss National Bank – in the eye of its own domestic banking storm – followed suit on Thursday with a […]