Nikki Haley’s rise makes her a target at the US Republican debate, Greece and Turkey seek to restart relations with meetings in Athens, and China’s exports grow for the first time in six months.
An Israeli tank crew killed Reuters visuals journalist Issam Abdallah and wounded six reporters in Lebanon on October 13 by firing two shells in quick succession from Israel while the journalists were filming cross-border shelling, a Reuters investigation has found.
A Thai farm laborer’s first person account of Hamas captivity offers a glimpse into what many hostages endured – and some continue to endure. Anucha Angkaew describes sleeping on a sandy floor and beatings by Hamas captors.
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Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley was the subject of repeated attacks during last night’s Republican presidential debate, as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sought to blunt her momentum just weeks before the party’s first nominating contest in Iowa. They were vying to emerge as the chief alternative to Donald Trump.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Greece for meetings that both countries hope can turn a new page in relations. The two neighbors have been at odds for decades over issues including where their continental shelves start and end, energy resources, overflights of the Aegean Sea, and ethnically-split Cyprus.
China’s exports grew for the first time in six months in November, suggesting factories in the world’s second-largest economy are attracting buyers through discount pricing to get over a prolonged slump in demand. Exports grew 0.5% from a year earlier, while imports fell 0.6%.
Investment banks and asset managers have wildly varying stock market and currency calls for 2024, reflecting deep division over whether the US economy will enter a long-heralded recession and drag the world with it. The lack of consensus among forecasters is a stark contrast to a year ago.
Most Germans do not want their government to loosen its strict borrowing rules to fix a budget mess – but many in a nation that prides itself on thrift are building up their own debts as a cost of living crisis deepens. The number of indebted individuals has risen for the first time since 2019.
European Union lawmakers and governments were still wrangling over several key issues on landmark rules governing artificial intelligence, two sources familiar with the matter said, as talks extended through the night into a second day.
2023 in photos: Living with war in Ukraine
Anastasia, 10, holds loaves of bread given to her by a volunteer, near Kherson, in Ukraine. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
As the war in Ukraine passed its first anniversary and approaches its second, Ukrainians have had to learn to live amid a constant drumbeat of death and destruction. Reuters photographers were on the ground in the country throughout 2023 to show the world how Ukrainians experience the war.
“The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks” runs in London from December 6 to April 21, 2024. Justin Sutcliffe/Lightroom/Handout via REUTERS
Archive footage of space rockets taking off beams across giant walls in an immersive show in London, as Tom Hanks narrates the story of human voyages to the moon. “This show is about the wonder of the moon and the amazing creatures that have made it possible for members of their race to walk upon it,” Hanks told Reuters.
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