by Reuters | Aug 9, 2022 | Asia, Economy, Politics, Top News
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) – Monesa Mubarez is not going to give up the rights she and other Afghan women won during 20 years of Western-backed rule easily. Before the hardline Islamist Taliban movement swept back to power a year ago, the...
by Reuters | Aug 5, 2022 | Asia, Economy, Politics, Top News, US
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Friday that the United States had nothing to rectify regarding U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, following demands from Beijing that Washington fix its “mistakes.” White House...
by Reuters | Aug 4, 2022 | Asia, Middle East, Top News
By Maya Gebeily and Layla Bassam (Reuters) – Lebanese mother Liliane Cheaito, stuck in the hospital since the Beirut blast two years ago, saw her son for the first time on Thursday following a court ruling in a protracted family dispute with her husband. Cheaito...
by Reuters | Aug 4, 2022 | Asia, Europe, Politics, Technology, Top News, US
By Sarah Wu and Eduardo Baptista TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) – As U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a brief visit to Taiwan this week that enraged Beijing, the welcome she received from government officials and the public was in sharp contrast...
by Reuters | Aug 3, 2022 | Asia, Business, Technology, US
By Josh Ye, Julie Zhu and Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) -Unity Software Inc, the U.S. developer best known for software used to design video games, is in talks to spin off its China unit to help it expand in the world’s biggest games market, four people with...
by Reuters | Jul 29, 2022 | Asia, Politics, Top News, US
By David Brunnstrom and Kiyoshi Takenaka WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi sounded the alarm about China’s behavior in the Indo-Pacific during a visit to Washington on Friday, saying the “logic of brute force” was...