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BANGKOK (AP) — Shares retreated Thursday in Asia after stocks on Wall Street slumped as oil prices spiked at more than $110 a barrel. U.S. stocks also sagged due to a report that said inflation was primed to worsen even before the war with Iran sent oil and gas prices spiking. That, and comments from …
(Fixes typo in paragraph 1.) BEIJING, March 19 (Reuters) – Several countries will send representatives to attend the Boao Forum, an international summit sometimes referred to as Asia’s answer to the World Economic Forum’s meetings in Davos, Switzerland, the organisers said on Thursday. The summit is usually also addressed by a top Chinese government official. …
BANGKOK, March 19 (Reuters) – Thailand’s Anutin Charnvirakul was nominated on Thursday to contest a parliamentary vote on a prime minister, as he seeks a mandate to form a new government after his Bhumjaithai Party’s election win last month. (Reporting by Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat; Writing by Martin Petty) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
NORTH SHORE, Calif. (AP) — A tiny desert community in Southern California reached 108 degrees on Wednesday, tying the highest March temperature ever recorded in the U.S. The record — first reached by Rio Grande City, Texas in 1954 and now shared by North Shore, California — could be broken in a number of cities …
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said late on Wednesday the attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field was carried out by Israel, and the U.S. and Qatar were not involved in it. Trump also said Israel would not make any more attacks on Iranian facilities in South Pars unless Iran attacked …
A group of House Democrats walked out of a closed-door briefing with Attorney General Pam Bondi on the Jeffrey Epstein probe late Wednesday, as tensions over the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein case continue to simmer. The faceoff took place one day after the chair of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Rep. James Comer …
March 18 (Reuters) – U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above an army base in Washington where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth live, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing three people briefed on the situation. (Reporting by Angela Christy in Bengaluru; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – A statue of Caesar Rodney, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and an enslaver, that was taken down in Delaware in 2020 amid racial justice protests will be displayed by President Donald Trump’s administration this year in Washington. The National Park Service plans to install the bronze statue of the …
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — On shelves crammed with cuddly toy native animals in an Australian airport gift shop, one fluffy possum stood out: Its big brown eyes were moving. A browsing passenger first spotted a living Australian brushtail possum peering out from among the kangaroos on the display shelf at the departure terminal shop at …
BRUSSELS, March 19 (Reuters) – European Union leaders are expected to put heavy pressure on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday to lift his blockade on a vital 90-billion-euro ($103 billion) EU loan to Ukraine to keep up its fight against Russia’s invasion. EU leaders agreed to the loan in December but Orban – …