Pentagon: No info to support missile strike theory for Prigozhin crash (www.reuters.com)
Fukushima wastewater released into the ocean, China bans all Japanese seafood (www.reuters.com)
Japan exported about $600 million worth of aquatic products to China in 2022, making it the biggest market for Japanese exports, with Hong Kong second. Sales to China and Hong Kong accounted for 42% of all Japanese aquatic exports in 2022, according to government data.
Putin breaks silence on Wagner boss Prigozhin’s death (www.reuters.com)
Putin breaks silence on Wagner boss Prigozhin’s death (www.reuters.com)
Chandrayaan-3 rover rolls onto moon's surface as ecstatic India celebrates (www.reuters.com)
The moon rover of India’s Chandrayaan-3 exited the spacecraft on Thursday to begin exploring the surface of the lunar south pole and conducting experiments, and was braced for new challenges, the space agency chief said....
BRICS invites Saudi, Iran and others to join developing world bloc (www.reuters.com)
BRICS invites six countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran to be new members (www.reuters.com)
Fukushima wastewater released into the ocean, China bans all Japanese seafood (www.reuters.com)
Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, a polarising move that prompted China to announce an immediate blanket ban on all aquatic products from Japan....
China quietly recruits overseas chip talent as US tightens curbs (www.reuters.com)
For a decade until 2018, China sought to recruit elite foreign-trained scientists under a lavishly funded program that Washington viewed as a threat to U.S. interests and technological supremacy....
BRICS invites six countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran to be new members (www.reuters.com)
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The BRICS group of nations has decided to invite six countries - Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - to become new members of the bloc, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday....
Argentina to use IMF money to pay back part of a currency swap with China, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Giuliani surrenders in Trump election subversion case, $150,000 bond set (www.reuters.com)
Exclusive: Argentina to use IMF money to pay back part of a currency swap with China -sources (www.reuters.com)
LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Argentina plans to tap a $7.5 billion disbursement from the International Monetary Fund to repay China part of the money it borrowed through a currency swap line, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday....
Scorched Europe battles deadly fires, Turkey shuts shipping lane (www.reuters.com)
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Russia may annex Georgian breakaway regions -Medvedev (www.reuters.com)
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Russia may annex Georgian breakaway regions -Medvedev (www.reuters.com)
US imposes visa curbs on Chinese officials over boarding schools for Tibetans (www.reuters.com)
Two tankers collide in Suez Canal - MarineTraffic citing eyewitnesses (www.reuters.com)
Russia may annex Georgian breakaway regions -Medvedev (www.reuters.com)
UK says a supersonic Russian bomber likely to have been destroyed in drone attack (www.reuters.com)
Aug 22 (Reuters) - British military intelligence said on Tuesday that a weekend drone attack on an airfield deep inside Russia which Moscow blamed on Ukraine is highly likely to have destroyed a nuclear-capable TU-22M3 supersonic long-range bomber....
Germany set to miss net zero by 2045 target as climate efforts falter (www.reuters.com)
Europe's heatwave turns deadly as 18 burned bodies found in Greek fires (www.reuters.com)
Children trapped in Pakistan cable car after line snaps over ravine (www.reuters.com)
The students have been stuck in the cable car since 7 a.m. (0200 GMT) when they were travelling to school in a remote mountainous area in Battagram, about 200 km (125 miles) north of Islamabad, officials said....