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October 5, 2021 HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that Beijing has no timetable to extend an anti-sanctions law to the global financial hub, where financial institutions are concerned over the impact it could have on their operations. Lam, speaking at her weekly news briefing, said Beijing would take […]

October 5, 2021 CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) -Venezuela will reopen its border with Colombia on Tuesday, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said in a state television address on Monday, after a nearly three-year closure due to political tensions. Venezuela closed the border in February 2019 as the Venezuelan opposition, backed by Bogota and Washington, attempted […]

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October 5, 2021 Newly crowned U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu would face two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep if both win their opening matches at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. Raducanu, an 18-year-old from Great Britain, stunned the tennis world while emerging from relative obscurity to win the major in New York […]

October 5, 2021 By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s trade surplus unexpectedly grew to a record in August as strength in liquefied natural gas and coal exports more than offset a pullback in iron ore prices, a windfall to mining profits and tax receipts. Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics out on Tuesday […]

October 5, 2021 By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar drifted below a one-year high versus major peers on Tuesday as traders waited on key U.S. payrolls data at the end of the week for clues on the timing of a tapering of Federal Reserve stimulus and the start of interest rate hikes. […]

October 5, 2021 TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices eased on Tuesday after climbing to their highest levels in years in the previous session on the decision by OPEC and allied major oil producers to maintain restraint on supply. Brent crude was down by 3 cents at $81.83 a barrel by 0054 GMT, having rising 2.5% […]

October 5, 2021 (Restores headline) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio affirmed the strength of the U.S.-Japan alliance in a phone call on Monday, the White House said in a statement. “The leaders affirmed the strength of the U.S.-Japan Alliance, which is the cornerstone of peace, security, and […]

October 5, 2021 By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) – Dominic Perrottet, a social conservative and economic reformer, was on Tuesday elected as the new state premier of New South Wales, which will within weeks exit a months-long COVID-19 lockdown that has battered its economy. Gladys Berejiklian last week resigned as premier of Australia’s most populous […]

October 5, 2021 TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan needs to be on alert for China’s “over the top” military activities, Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Tuesday, after 56 Chinese aircraft flew into Taiwan’s air defence zone on Monday. The world has also seen that China is violating regional peace and pressuring Taiwan, Su told reporters. (Reporting […]

October 5, 2021 SYDNEY (Reuters) – A return to court for Ash Barty this season looked less likely on Tuesday after the world number one was omitted from Australia’s team for next month’s Billie Jean King Cup finals in Prague. The Wimbledon champion, who returned to Australia after a third-round exit at the U.S. Open […]

October 4, 2021 By Helena Soderpalm STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc and SSW Partners have reached a definite agreement to buy automotive technology group Veoneer for $4.5 billion, the Swedish company said on Monday. Veoneer’s expertise in making advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) had made it an attractive takeover target for both Qualcomm and Canada’s […]

October 5, 2021 TOKYO (Reuters) – New Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday that he received a “strong” message from U.S. President Joe Biden about the United States’ commitment to defending the disputed East China Sea islets known as the Senkaku in Japan. In phone talks on Tuesday morning that lasted roughly 20 […]

October 5, 2021 By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Sellers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are asking for credit letters from companies they deal with to guarantee they can pay as the global spike in gas prices takes them beyond their credit limits, industry sources said. Defaults have been rare in LNG, which has typically relied […]

October 5, 2021 By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday said the Justice Department is “seriously and urgently investigating” how states are changing voting procedures or redistricting to ensure they are not violating federal voting rights. “We are seriously and urgently investigating and examining other changes in procedures […]

October 5, 2021 By Jamie Freed SYDNEY (Reuters) – Qantas Airways Ltd expects to order more than 100 narrowbody and regional planes next year as well as widebodies capable of the world’s longest commercial flights from Sydney to London, its chief executive said. Qantas plans to select the preferred supplier to replace its ageing fleet […]

October 5, 2021 (Corrects to delete extraneous word in paragraph 2) By Alex Lawler, Ahmad Ghaddar and Olesya Astakhova LONDON (Reuters) -OPEC+ said on Monday it would stick to an existing pact for a gradual increase in oil output, sending crude prices to three-year highs and adding to inflationary pressures that consuming nations fear will […]

October 4, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – A foundation set up by seven-times Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton announced its first initiative on Tuesday, seeking to recruit 150 Black school teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. Hamilton’s Mission 44 and the educational charity Teach First will work together over the next two years […]

October 4, 2021 By Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) – The South Korean battery giants powering many of the world’s electric vehicles face a skills shortage that could drag on the global race towards zero-emissions transport. The country’s three major players, which command a third of the global electric vehicle (EV) battery market, told Reuters they […]

October 4, 2021 By Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) – The global auto industry’s shift to electric vehicles (EVs) has spurred an expansion race among battery makers, and caused a growing a skills shortage. See main story: Global sales of EVs, estimated at 2.5 million vehicles in 2020, is forecast to grow more than 12-fold to […]