HONG KONG, March 27 (Reuters) – China is willing to strengthen economic and trade cooperation with the United States, its Commerce Minister Wang Wentao said during a meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, China’s Commerce Ministry said in a statement. The discussion occurred during a World Trade Organization meeting in Cameroon on Thursday, the …
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday extended her order requiring that federal authorities give immigrants detained in Minnesota access to attorneys immediately after they are arrested and before they are transferred out of state. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel issued a preliminary injunction requiring that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement must ensure that …
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in temporarily blocking the Pentagon from labeling the company as a supply chain risk. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin on Thursday said she was also blocking enforcement of President Donald Trump’s social media directive ordering all federal agencies to …
March 27 (Reuters) – A Thai-flagged cargo ship that was hit by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month has run aground off Iran’s Qeshm Island, Iran’s Tasnim news agency said on Friday. Thailand said 20 crew members were rescued by the Omani navy, while three were missing after an explosion in …
March 26 (Reuters) – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has asked oligarchs to donate to the country’s budget in a bid to stabilise the country’s finances as he presses on with his invasion of Ukraine, The Bell online media outlet reported late on Thursday, citing unnamed sources. It said Putin met top Russia’s businessmen behind closed …
March 27 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates has told the U.S. and other Western allies it would participate in a multinational maritime taskforce to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The UAE is trying to push dozens of countries to create a “Hormuz …
BEIGAN, Taiwan, March 27 (Reuters) – One day a year, pilgrims make their way to a small temple on a remote Taiwanese island near the Chinese coast to do one simple thing: Sleep. Wrapped in blankets, the faithful spend the night on the floor at the Wuwei Ling Temple on Beigan island, hoping the deities …
Nine people, including children, have been sickened in an expanding outbreak of E. coli food poisoning tied to raw milk and cheddar cheese made with it from Raw Farm, a Fresno, California, producer, health officials said. Two cases in California were added Thursday to the outbreak first announced March 15, bringing the total number of …
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has been weighing whether to use ground forces to seize Iran’s strategic oil hub of Kharg Island, an operation analysts say could be achieved quickly, but leave U.S. troops in great peril and prolong rather than shorten the war. WHERE IS KHARG ISLAND AND WHY IS IT …
Israel’s military said early Friday it had conducted a wave of strikes “in the heart of Tehran” while smoke was seen billowing in the Beirut skyline after U.S. President Donald Trump delayed his threat to obliterate Iran’s energy plants over its effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Israel has moved thousands of troops across …