By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause – perhaps some unknown factor involving the mysterious cosmic components dark energy and dark matter. Two years of data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have now validated the […]
US announces Ukraine weapons package worth $725 million
By Patricia Zengerle (Reuters) – The United States will provide Ukraine with a $725 million weapons package, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, as President Joe Biden’s outgoing administration seeks to bolster the government in Kyiv in its war with Russian invaders before leaving office in January. The assistance will include Stinger missiles, […]
US most wanted terrorist since 2009 arrested in the UK
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – An alleged animal-rights extremist on the U.S. most-wanted terrorist list since 2009 in connection with the bombing of a California biotechnology firm has been arrested in the United Kingdom, the FBI said on Tuesday. The suspect, Daniel Andreas San Diego, was arrested in Wales on Monday in an operation carried […]
Uranium prices jump after Russia restricts exports to US
By Seher Dareen (Reuters) -Uranium prices gained on Friday after Russia imposed temporary restrictions on the export of enriched uranium to the United States. The move by Russia, the world’s largest supplier of enriched uranium, was a symbolic tit-for-tat move after the U.S. banned Russian uranium imports, adding that companies authorized by the export control […]
Exclusive-Biden administration buys last oil for emergency reserve as fund taps out
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration said on Friday it has bought its last batch of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after selling a record amount from the facility in 2022 to counter fuel prices that had risen after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Department of Energy said it had bought […]
Putin says China is Russia’s ally, backs its stance on Taiwan
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday described China as Russia’s ally and threw his weight behind Beijing’s claims over Taiwan, while stating that no countries had anything to fear from deepening Sino-Russian cooperation. The two countries have not declared a formal military alliance, but Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed […]
Factbox-Trump’s US election win may bring NATO members’ defense spending back into focus
(Reuters) – NATO-member defense spending may come back into focus as former U.S. President Donald Trump returns to office. Republican Trump, 78, was elected president on Wednesday, defeating Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. He previously served as U.S. president from 2017 to 2021. In congratulating Trump on his election, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that […]
Trump unlikely to undo Biden’s IRA climate legislation, TotalEnergies executive says
By America Hernandez PARIS (Reuters) – French oil major TotalEnergies does not anticipate that Donald Trump would pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement on climate change or undo Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) legislation if he became U.S. president again, the company’s strategy director said on Monday. Aurelien Hamelle made the comments while presenting […]
China vows ‘countermeasures’ after $2 billion US arms sale to Taiwan
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will take “countermeasures” to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity, the government said, lambasting a $2 billion arms sale package by the United States to Taiwan. The United States is bound by law to provide Chinese-claimed Taiwan with the means to defend itself despite the lack of formal diplomatic ties, to […]
Exclusive-BRICS is for the fairies until China and India get serious, ‘Mr BRICS’ says
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – The idea of the BRICS group ever challenging the U.S. dollar is for the fairies as long as China and India remain so divided and refuse to cooperate on trade, the former Goldman Sachs economist who came up with the BRIC acronym told Reuters. Russian President Vladimir Putin is […]