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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The last ship is due to leave a port in Ukraine on Wednesday under a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, said a U.N. spokesperson, a day before Russia could quit the pact over obstacles to its grain and fertilizer exports. The United Nations and Turkey brokered the Black Sea deal for an initial 120 days in July last […]

By Katya Golubkova, Yuka Obayashi and Kate Abnett TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s energy companies were quick to embrace the G7’s support for natural gas investment in their statement last month but analysts caution that relying on the fossil fuel may open the companies up to long-term problems. Resource poor Japan, the world’s biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), is committed to gas as a transition fuel to reach its […]

By Katya Golubkova, Yuka Obayashi and Kate Abnett TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s energy companies were quick to embrace the G7’s support for natural gas investment in their statement last month but analysts caution that relying on the fossil fuel may open the companies up to long-term problems. Resource poor Japan, the world’s biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), is committed to gas as a transition fuel to reach its […]

By Maki Shiraki TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is arranging subsidies that could be worth around 15 billion yen ($110 million) to South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co for a chip facility it is considering setting up near Tokyo, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said. Samsung, the world’s largest maker of memory chips, would construct the facility including its first chip packaging test line in Japan near its existing […]

By Maki Shiraki TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is arranging subsidies that could be worth around 15 billion yen ($110 million) to South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co for a chip facility it is considering setting up near Tokyo, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said. Samsung, the world’s largest maker of memory chips, would construct the facility including its first chip packaging test line in Japan near its existing […]

By Steven Grattan and Leonardo Benassatto SAO PAULO (Reuters) – At one of Latin America’s largest commuter bus terminals in Brazil’s gritty downtown Sao Paulo, 84-year-old Rerizenil de Paula Santos waits on a bus decorated with neon lights and bright graffiti amid the hustle and bustle of rush hour. It is the 10th time she has boarded this first-of-its-kind project, known as the cultural center on wheels. Its aim: to […]

By Steven Grattan and Leonardo Benassatto SAO PAULO (Reuters) – At one of Latin America’s largest commuter bus terminals in Brazil’s gritty downtown Sao Paulo, 84-year-old Rerizenil de Paula Santos waits on a bus decorated with neon lights and bright graffiti amid the hustle and bustle of rush hour. It is the 10th time she has boarded this first-of-its-kind project, known as the cultural center on wheels. Its aim: to […]

By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -China has notified foreign embassies and international organisations not to exhibit “politicised propaganda” on their buildings, an instruction diplomats say is aimed at missions that have displayed Ukrainian flags since Russia’s invasion. Several foreign missions in China raised the Ukrainian flag, or displayed its image in posters and lights, following the February 2022 invasion that sparked international condemnation of Russia, a close ally of China. […]

By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -China has notified foreign embassies and international organisations not to exhibit “politicised propaganda” on their buildings, an instruction diplomats say is aimed at missions that have displayed Ukrainian flags since Russia’s invasion. Several foreign missions in China raised the Ukrainian flag, or displayed its image in posters and lights, following the February 2022 invasion that sparked international condemnation of Russia, a close ally of China. […]