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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s auto market, the world’s largest, is accelerating toward an electric future – leaving established global brands stuck in the slow lane. When auto executives convene in Shanghai for the auto show starting Tuesday, they will return to a sharply different market from the one they left in 2021 when the industry gathered for a limited event under strict COVID-19 controls. The biggest change: China-made brands now […]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and more than 40 other countries said in a joint statement on Monday that they are deeply concerned over Russia’s detainment of a Wall Street Journal reporter and protested Moscow’s “efforts to limit and intimidate the media.” They also said in the statement due to be read at the United Nations later on Monday by U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “We urge Russian Federation […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s auto market, the world’s largest, is accelerating toward an electric future – leaving established global brands stuck in the slow lane. When auto executives convene in Shanghai for the auto show starting Tuesday, they will return to a sharply different market from the one they left in 2021 when the industry gathered for a limited event under strict COVID-19 controls. The biggest change: China-made brands now […]

ERBIL (Reuters) – Ukraine’s foreign minister visited Iraq on Monday for the first time since Russia’s invasion, seeking diplomatic support from the Middle East where Moscow has been cultivating friends. “We definitely see Iraq as a country that is capable of building bridges,” Dmitro Kuleba said at a press conference alongside Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein. “We welcome every effort to restore peace in Ukraine. There is one key cornerstone […]

By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California’s bustling seaports, dominated by massive container vessels and soaring cranes, may seem an unlikely setting for investors seeking to capitalize on the “green” revolution. But thanks to the state’s plan to phase out by 2035 heavy-duty diesel trucks that haul containers to ships and warehouses, the ports have become ground zero for forward-looking investors who are lining up to build charging stations for […]

By Seun Sanni LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian aviation employees on Monday blocked roads to the domestic terminal of Lagos airport, slowing traffic and threatening to delay flights as they began a two-day strike in protest over working conditions and wages. The strike is likely to add to problems in a sector that regularly faces jet fuel shortages, which often ground local flights and where international carriers struggle to repatriate revenue […]

KYIV (Reuters) – Kyiv said on Monday a U.N.-brokered initiative allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain was in danger of “shutdown” after Russia blocked inspections of participating ships in Turkish waters. Ukrainian Black Sea ports were blockaded after Russia’s invasion last year, but access to three of them was cleared last July under a deal between Moscow and Kyiv that was brokered by the United Nations and […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s army chief on Monday branded the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces a rebellious group and ordered it be dissolved, as the faction battled the army in deadly violence that derailed a shift to civilian rule and prompted U.S. calls for a ceasefire. Both sides claimed they made gains on Monday, in a violent, nationwide power struggle the Central Committee of Sudanese […]

By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong’s top Catholic cleric is due to arrive in Beijing on Monday on the first visit to the Chinese capital by a bishop of the former British colony in nearly 30 years, despite signs of new Sino-Vatican tension. The visit by Bishop Stephen Chow and several of his senior priests at the invitation of Bishop of Beijing Joseph Li Shan comes weeks after […]