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MILAN (Reuters) – The body of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will be cremated and his ashes taken to the family mausoleum in the grounds of his villa in the northern town of Arcore, a source close to the family told Reuters. After a state funeral on Wednesday, the coffin will be returned to Villa San Martino, near Milan, to await the cremation which will take place at the […]

By Shristi Achar A and Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were set to open higher on Wednesday after a fresh inflation reading firmed expectations that the Federal Reserve could skip raising interest rates later in the day. The Labor Department’s producer prices index fell 0.3% last month compared with a 0.2% rise in April, while economists polled by Reuters expected prices to fall 0.1%. Producer prices […]

(Reuters) -China’s foreign minister Qin Gang urged the United States to stop meddling in its affairs and harming its security in a phone call with his U.S. counterpart on Wednesday, a tense preview to Antony Blinken’s visit to Beijing expected in coming days. Qin told Blinken to respect China’s core concerns, such as the Taiwan issue, in an effort to arrest declining relations between the superpowers, according to China’s foreign […]

CAIRO (Reuters) – Fighting rocked several vulnerable cities in western Sudan on Wednesday in an expansion of the country’s almost two-month-old war as the number of people who have fled their homes rose above two million. The war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has caused a humanitarian crisis in Khartoum, as well as cities including El Obeid, Nyala, El Fashir, and El Geneina, where more than […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Washington is not expecting a “long list of deliverables” when Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits China later this week, but hopes to keep high-level communication channels with Beijing open to reduce the risk that competition with Beijing veers into conflict, officials said on Wednesday. Briefing reporters before Blinken’s departure on Friday, the top State Department official for Asia, Daniel Kritenbrink, said Washington hopes Blinken’s meetings with […]

(Reuters) -China’s foreign minister Qin Gang urged the United States to stop meddling in its affairs and harming its security in a phone call with his U.S. counterpart on Wednesday, a tense preview to Antony Blinken’s visit to Beijing expected in coming days. Qin told Blinken to respect China’s core concerns, such as the Taiwan issue, in an effort to arrest declining relations between the superpowers, according to China’s foreign […]

By Aidan Lewis and Khalid Abdelaziz CAIRO (Reuters) – Shooting their way through truces, Sudan’s warring factions have shown the limited leverage the United States, Saudi Arabia and other foreign powers have in ending a two-month conflict that is driving the nation deeper into disaster. Neither the army nor the paramilitary Rapid Response Forces (RSF) seem far enough backed into a corner to take ceasefire talks in Jeddah seriously, which […]

PRISTINA (Reuters) – Three Kosovo police officers were detained by Serbia’s forces in the volatile northern part of the country, near the border with Serbia, a Kosovo official said on Wednesday. “They were kidnapped by Serbia’s forces in the north part of the country inside our territory. Their car was already found,” the official who declined to be named told Reuters. There was no immediate comment from Serbian authorities. If […]

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Various versions of the pro-democracy protest anthem “Glory to Hong Kong” were unavailable on Apple’s iTunes Store, Spotify, Facebook and Instagram’s Reels on Wednesday after the government sought an injunction banning the song outright. A Reuters search for the song’s Chinese title on Apple’s iTunes Store and a search for the song’s English title on Facebook and Instagram’s Reels only showed a Taiwan version […]