MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the scenic Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, cleaning squads patrol forest and mountain trails on the lookout for litter left behind by tourists,
TOKYO – Japan‘s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday he would compile measures to help the fishing industry hit by China‘s ban on Japanese seafood, after visiting Tokyo’s biggest fish market. The government will tap additional
The US expanded the restriction of exports of sophisticated Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices artificial-intelligence chips beyond China to other regions including some countries in the Middle East. Nvidia said in a
WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden‘s administration has approved a military transfer to Taiwan under the Foreign Military Financing, or FMF, program normally used for sovereign states, according to a notification sent to Congress. The notification, which was seen
SINGAPORE — An unusually dry August has taken a toll on cereal and oilseed crops in Asia as El Niño intensified, and
SAO PAULO/MONTREAL — Russia has informed Brazil’s aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet
OTTAWA — Canada has detected its first case of coronavirus infection from the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant of Omicron in a person
A US JUDGE has rejected Burger King’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it cheated hungry customers by making its Whopper
JOHANNESBURG — Climate change is likely to worsen conflicts in fragile and war-torn states, resulting in higher death rates and greatly reduced
A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Unilever Plc on Tuesday that claimed the company misled United States investors by not immediately disclosing
