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HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – The Group of Seven rich nations will issue a statement on a shared approach on China, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said early 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 or communique. “The communique will note that […]

By Steve Keating ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) -World number two Scottie Scheffler, Norwegian Viktor Hovland and Canada’s Corey Conners grabbed a share of the PGA Championship second round lead on Friday, while an unforgiving Oak Hill left some of golf’s biggest names fighting to make the cut. Scheffler, who posted his first ever bogey-free round at a major with a tidy 67 on Thursday, could not match that brilliance in […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will attend the Group of Seven (G7) Hiroshima summit in person on Sunday and hold a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during his stay, Japan’s foreign ministry announced on Saturday. Zelenskiy will take part in a session regarding peace and security alongside the G7 leaders and invited outreach countries, according to the foreign ministry. The Ukrainian president is set to […]

By Steve Keating ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) -World number two Scottie Scheffler, Norwegian Viktor Hovland and Canada’s Corey Conners grabbed a share of the PGA Championship second round lead on Friday, while an unforgiving Oak Hill left some of golf’s biggest names fighting to make the cut. Scheffler, who posted his first ever bogey-free round at a major with a tidy 67 on Thursday, could not match that brilliance in […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will attend the Group of Seven (G7) Hiroshima summit in person on Sunday and hold a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during his stay, Japan’s foreign ministry announced on Saturday. Zelenskiy will take part in a session regarding peace and security alongside the G7 leaders and invited outreach countries, according to the foreign ministry. The Ukrainian president is set to […]

By Steve Keating ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) – Canada’s Corey Connors climbed to the top of the PGA Championship second round leaderboard on Friday, with an error-free first nine to move one clear of the pack. Conners and world number two Scottie Scheffler started the day one back of first round leader Bryson DeChambeau but in early afternoon rain both surged past the 2020 U.S. Open champion. Scheffler, who posted […]

ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) – There may be no place like home, but Oak Hill Country Club is proving close enough for the Canadians playing in this week’s PGA Championship where Corey Conners grabbed a share of the halfway lead on Friday. A record six Canadians were in the 156-player starting field at Oak Hill, which is about a 90-minute drive from the Canadian border, and they are relishing in […]

By Moira Warburton, Richard Cowan and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (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. “We had a very, very candid discussion talking about where we are, talking about where things need to be,” Republican Representative Garret Graves told reporters […]

By Diane Bartz and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American Airlines Group must end its alliance with JetBlue Airways Corp, a federal judge ruled on Friday, agreeing with the U.S. Justice Department that the arrangement means higher prices for consumers and ordering the companies to part ways within 30 days. The decision represented a victory for President Joe Biden’s administration, which has taken a hard line on consolidation and tie-ups in […]