TOKYO, July 7 (Reuters) – Ukraine has submitted a formal request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to New Zealand, Japanese and New Zealand authorities said on Friday.…
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The publication this week of the UN nuclear watchdog’s positive assessment of Japanese plans to pump more than 1m tonnes of water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean has failed to placate opponents.…
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NATO, which originally begin as an anti-communist military pact covering the North Atlantic, has expanded its focus in recent years to include the risk to global security posed by China, including cyberattacks, weaponisation of trade and danger of conf…

Chinese Premier Li Qiang shakes hands with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday. Photograph: Mark/AFP via Getty Images
Janet Yellen has said that the US and China should not let disput…

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About the author: Susan Thornton is a retired U.S. diplomat and former acting assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs. She is currently a senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale University Law School.……

Analysis: Making sense of President Lukashenko's diverse press conference
By Moscow correspondent Diana Magnay
Alexander Lukashenko repeated his claim today that there were no heroes in the remarkably speedy resolution of Prigozhin’s mutiny, than…

Back in May, Chinese manufacturer, Honor, officially released the Honor 90 in China. This device has been doing quite well in the Asian region and the brand in an event in Paris today officially released the Honor 90 in the global markets.…
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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over its new rival Threads app just a few hours after its official launch.
Gaining over 30 million subscribers in less than 24 hours, it's no secret that the so-called Twitter killer aims to replace the popular micro…

Houston police say that the man thought to be “missing” for eight years was at home the whole time. Marjorie Taylor Greene is voted out of the House Freedom Caucus. And Britney Spears wants an apology after an incident at a Las Vegas hotel.…
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Last month, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited China in an attempt to partially smooth over the increasingly rocky relationship between the world’s two largest economies. Now it’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s turn.…
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BEIJING (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is visiting Beijing as part of efforts to revive U.S.-Chinese relations that are at their lowest level in decades due to disputes over technology, security and other irritants.…
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As well as issuing warrants for their arrest, Hong Kong authorities took the unusual step of issuing a $HK1 million ($192,000) reward for information leading to their return. The collusion offence carries a sentence of up to life in prison.…
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My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, July 5 1. The Dow , the S & P 500 and the Nasdaq are set for a lower open. Monday's shortened session saw modest gains after a strong performance in June, the second quarter, and the first half.…
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Dow Jones futures edged lower early Friday, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. The June jobs report looms large.
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The stock market rally retreated Thursday as strong economic data sent Treasury yields soaring, though indexes pared morn…

Many people in Latin America see migration as "the only option they have" after enduring successive crises of climate change, Covid and spiking food prices, the World Food Programme's head for the region told AFP.…
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Just four years ago, a joint American and Chinese effort to stem the flow of fentanyl produced in China from reaching the United States appeared set to take off. Beijing had unveiled a sweeping new law banning the synthetic opioid, leading the Trump ad…

BEIJING, July 7 (Reuters) – The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank said on Friday it had found no evidence to support or validate allegations made by its former communications chief that it is dominated by the Chinese Communist Party, in a stat…

Musk is threatening to sue Meta over its latest Threads social app, which got more than 30m sign-ups within 24 hours and ‘looks almost identical’ to Twitter.
Elon Musk was not this worried when people were flocking to Mastodon after he took charge of T…

MANILA, July 7 (Reuters) – The Philippine military on Friday reported an "alarming" increase in the number of Chinese fishing vessels in disputed waters in the South China Sea, which it said threatens the security of the oil and gas-r…

Dr Yellen has said for months she intends to visit China, but an escalation in tensions stemming from then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip last year to Taiwan – which Beijing claims as part of China – and the flight of a Chinese balloon over the US l…

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Friday to cap a packed day of talks with officials and businesses in Beijing, as Washington seeks to steady the tense relationship between the world's top two economies.&#82…