By Trevor Hunnicutt and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump will follow up his summit with Xi Jinping by taking the Chinese leader on Friday to the US National Archives, where they are expected to stress views about the history…
By Rachel More and Christina Amann BERLIN, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume may have got the green light from stakeholders for his turnaround plan, but he faces tough talks in Germany over job cuts and plant closures as well as fundamental questions…
By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) – From his high-profile address to the UN General Assembly to his high-stakes White House summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump this week was looking to reassert himself on the world stage. But Trump’s…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu Treasuries are meant to be markets’ quiet backwater. When they start dominating headlines and trading like a retail-driven Korean stock market, something has clearly gone awry. In just two sessions, the…
MOSCOW, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Eight people, including a child, were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Ulyanovsk region on Friday morning, Governor Alexei Russkikh said. Russkikh said on Telegram that industrial and civilian infrastructure in the region had been damaged in the…
MANILA, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Friday he had granted a pardon to Mary Jane Veloso, who is serving a prison sentence in the Philippines after receiving a last-minute reprieve from execution by firing squad for drug trafficking in…
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Jailed former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has asked a court to suspend a 15-year prison sentence imposed on him for his involvement in a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal, his lawyer said on Friday, a week after he received a…
By Francesco Guarascio and Phuong Nguyen HANOI, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) is in advanced talks to increase its stake in Vietnamese private lender VPBank, four people familiar with the negotiations said. SMBC, the banking arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial…
By Francesco Guarascio, Alessandro Parodi, Phuong Nguyen and Farah Master HANOI/HONG KONG, Sept 25 (Reuters) – In July, a ton of cotton shirts was unloaded at the port of Los Angeles after a trip from southern Vietnam. The apparel had come from a garment manufacturer…
Sept 25 (Reuters) – Pakistan has thwarted an attempted Afghan attack in its border area of Gulistan, killing several members of the Afghan Taliban, Pakistani security sources said on Friday, without detailing the planned attack. The incident comes as tensions have resurfaced between the allies-turned-foes…
