TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Friday he was arranging a diplomatic tour to visit India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, South Africa, Uganda and Ethiopia from late July to early August. (Reporting by Kantaro Komiya; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Shares of Taiwan’s TSMC slumped more than 3% on Friday after the world’s largest contract chipmaker flagged a 10% drop in 2023 sales and said production due to start next year at its first plant in Arizona would be delayed. In early trade, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd’s shares underperformed a 1.65% fall …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Core inflation in Japan’s capital likely stayed above the central bank’s 2% target but slowed sharply in July, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, suggesting that easing cost pressures will moderate the pace of price gains nationwide. The Tokyo core consumer price index (CPI), which excludes volatile fresh food but includes fuel …
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By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said on Thursday deployment of U.S. aircraft carriers, bombers or missile submarines in South Korea could meet criteria for its use of nuclear weapons, state media KCNA reported, citing the country’s defence minister, Kang Sun Nam. The comments raise the stakes as each side steps up displays of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Thursday his agency has national security concerns about Chinese autonomous vehicle companies in the American market after some lawmakers called for restrictions on their operations. “Whether we are talking about hardware or software, in the same way there are concerns around telecom or TikTok, there …
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By Praveen Paramasivam and Aditya Kalra CHENNAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Q: How does the world’s biggest pizza brand respond to high inflation in the world’s most populous nation? A: With the world’s cheapest Domino’s pizza. The 49-rupee ($0.60) pizza in India, Domino’s No.1 market outside America, is the tip of the spear in its fight …
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By Francis Mascarenhas and Shilpa Jamkhandikar IRSHALWADI, India (Reuters) -The death toll from a massive landslide in western India rose to 16 late on Thursday, as rescue operations were suspended with around 100 people still feared trapped, officials said. Land gave way in the middle of the night in the remote mountain hamlet of Irshalwadi, …
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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday voiced mounting concern over Army Private Travis King, who dashed into North Korea two days ago, saying Pyongyang had a history of mistreating captured Americans. U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, in her first public comments on the case, said Washington was fully …
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By Ju-min Park and Matt Spetalnick SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea remained silent on Thursday about a U.S. soldier who split from a tour group and made a dash across the heavily fortified border two days earlier, landing Washington in a new diplomatic quandary amid an already tense military standoff. U.S. officials said Pyongyang has …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Thursday expressed regret that Henry Kissinger was able to get more of an audience in Beijing than some sitting U.S. officials, after the former top diplomat held talks in China. Kissinger — an architect of normalizing ties between Washington and Beijing in the 1970s as …
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