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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen vowed on Saturday to maintain the status quo of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait amid high tensions with China, which has stepped up military pressure on the democratically governed island. Taiwan will not provoke and will not bow to Chinese pressure, Tsai said in a speech in the presidential office in Taipei marking the seventh anniversary of her governance. China, which considers […]

By Jeff Mason and Sakura Murakami HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) nations will outline steps to help rein in risks from China while preserving economic ties, the White House said on Saturday, highlighting the difficult balancing act rich democracies face with Beijing. U.S. President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders have gathered in the Japanese city of Hiroshima for a three-day summit that has put […]

By Richard Cowan, Moira Warburton and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON/HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -A second meeting on Friday between White House and Republican congressional negotiators on raising the federal government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling broke up with no progress cited by either side and no additional meeting set. That came at the end of a day of acrimonious talks that were broken off for several hours, with less than two weeks to […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Leaders of the world’s richest democracies meeting in the Japanese city of Hiroshima were set on Saturday to issue a statement that would stress the need to reduce reliance on trade with China, having a day earlier agreed to stiffen sanctions against Russia. DEALING WITH CHINA * G7 members are prepared to build “constructive and stable relations” with China while acting in their national interests, according […]

By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – With barely a month to go before Guatemalan voters go to the polls to pick a new president, a judge suspended the candidacy of frontrunner Carlos Pineda on Friday, in a ruling swiftly denounced as undemocratic by the businessman outsider. Pineda pledged to appeal the ruling to the country’s constitutional court, the top judicial authority in Central America’s most populous country, but with […]

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -The Group of Seven (G7) rich nations will issue a statement on a shared approach on China, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said early on Saturday, adding that G7 members were looking to “de-risk, not decouple” from China. Sullivan said the G7 leaders planned to outline steps to protect sensitive technology, including outbound investment measures, in their joint statement […]

ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) – Viktor Hovland’s outfits have been known to sometimes overshadow his play, and that might have been the case again on Friday at the PGA Championship if the Norwegian, wearing bright orange pants, had not grabbed a share of the halfway lead. The pants seemed to come right out of the closet of Rickie Fowler, who has made orange his trademark color on the course, and […]

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen vowed on Saturday to maintain the status quo of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait amid high tensions with China, which has stepped up military pressure on the democratically governed island. Taiwan will not provoke and will not bow to the pressure, Tsai said in a speech marking the seventh anniversary of her governance in the presidential office in Taipei. (Reporting by […]

ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) – Viktor Hovland’s outfits have been known to sometimes overshadow his play, and that might have been the case again on Friday at the PGA Championship if the Norwegian, wearing bright orange pants, had not grabbed a share of the halfway lead. The pants seemed to come right out of the closet of Rickie Fowler, who has made orange his trademark color on the course, and […]