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JAKARTA, Dec 13 (Reuters) – South Korea, Japan and the United States will coordinate sanctions and close loopholes in the international sanctions regime against North Korea, Seoul’s Korea envoy said on Tuesday. North. Kim Gunn, South Korea’s special representative for peace and security affairs on the Korean peninsula, said in a meeting with his American … Read more

Pedestrians cross a road in front of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), operated by Japan Exchange Group Inc. (JPX), in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg via Getty Images Asia-Pacific stocks opened in positive territory as investors anticipate a much-anticipated Federal Reserve meeting and US CPI data. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng … Read more

Keystone’s restart timeline is unclear; traders worry about supply crude inventories fell last week, commodities likely up Dec 13 (Reuters) – Oil prices rose for the second day on Tuesday as a key pipeline supplying the United States, the world’s biggest consumer of crude, remained closed and expectations eased COVID restrictions in China, the world’s … Read more

Dec 12 (Reuters) – The United States has been talking to partners, including Japan and the Netherlands, to tighten chip exports to China, House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday. White. Bloomberg News reported that the two countries had agreed in principle to join the US-led technology export controls. The Biden administration aims … Read more

Comment this story Comment Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday after US prosecutors filed an indictment against him. “Bahamian authorities have arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the U.S. government,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. “We expect to unseal the indictment … Read more

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – The White House on Monday condemned the rhetoric of Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said recently that if she had been in charge of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, she would would have succeeded and the assailants would have been armed. “It is contrary … Read more

DEARBORN, MI — Today, U.S. Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm hosted a roundtable with federal and local government, industry, and labor leaders to officially launch the United States Workforce Initiative. the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Battery – an effort designed to lay the foundation to develop a modern U.S. workforce needed to support the growth … Read more

MEXICO CITY — Today marks the bicentennial of bilateral relations between the United States and Mexico. In honor of the ties that have united us for two centuries, the President’s Special Advisor for the Americas, Christopher Dodd, and the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, signed a Bicentennial Declaration of Friendship at the Secretaria … Read more

NEW YORK, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Hate crime incidents in the United States fell in 2021 from a two-decade high in 2020, FBI data showed on Monday, but the agency acknowledged that figures exclude the totals of more than a third of the country’s law enforcement agencies. Overall, more than 7,200 hate crimes were reported … Read more

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – The fuel efficiency of the U.S. new-vehicle fleet held steady in the 2021 model year as automakers sold more sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks than cars, while the Detroit Three lagged behind their overseas competitors. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday the actual fleetwide average was 25.4 miles … Read more