(Reuters) -The death toll from an unexplained blast last week at a factory in Russia’s Ryazan region has risen to at least 25, with a total 158 people injured so far, Russia’s ministry for emergency services said on social media on Tuesday. (Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
By Ju-min Park and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country needed to rapidly expand its nuclear armament and called U.S.-South Korea military exercises an “obvious expression of their will to provoke war,” state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. South Korea and its ally the United States kicked off …
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(Reuters) -Following are key quotes from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s press conference after meeting U.S. President Donald Trump and European leaders in Washington on Monday. Translation by Reuters. ON MEETING WITH TRUMP AND EUROPEAN LEADERS: “I would like to thank President Trump for this meeting. It was the best of our meetings – and that …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s foreign tourist arrivals from January 1 to August 17 fell 7.04% from the same period a year earlier, the Tourism Ministry said on Tuesday. There were about 20.81 million foreign visitors during the period, it said in a statement. China was the largest source market, with 2.93 million visitors. On Monday, the …
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HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank plans to launch an initial public offering of its securities unit, VPBank Securities, in November, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. The bank, known as VPBank, plans to offer 10% of the unit’s shares to investors, one of the sources said. The unit, VPBankS, …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday they spoke about missing children due to conflict as Trump hosted European and NATO leaders in Washington to discuss Russia’s war in Ukraine. Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, raised the plight of children in Ukraine and …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Monday NATO membership for Ukraine was not under discussion but that there was a discussion on “Article 5” type security guarantees for the country that Russia invaded in February 2022. KEY QUOTES “The situation is this – that the U.S. and some other …
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(Corrects Aug 18 story to specify one cargo in paragraph 11, not both cargoes) By Naveen Thukral and Ella Cao SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese state-run trading firm COFCO has booked a cargo of about 50,000 metric tons of new-crop Australian canola, two traders told Reuters, just days after Beijing imposed temporary levies on top supplier Canada. …
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By Yuliia Dysa and Lidia Kelly KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday after his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and European leaders that security guarantees for Kyiv will likely be worked out within 10 days. “Security guarantees will probably be ‘unpacked’ by our partners, and more and more details will emerge. …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Tesla Inc started accepting orders for its new Model Y L in China on Tuesday with a starting price of 339,000 yuan ($47,184), its website showed, as it refreshes its line-up in the world’s largest auto market to battle growing competition. Tesla first launched the Model Y in 2020 and it became the …
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