By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Aides to U.S. President Donald Trump met at the White House on Thursday with envoys from Denmark and Greenland, a Danish government official said as Trump pushes to bring the island territory under U.S. control. Denmark’s Ambassador Jesper Moller Sorensen and Jacob Isbosethsen, Greenland’s chief representative to…
KYIV, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday the text of a bilateral security guarantee between Kyiv and Washington was “essentially ready” to be finalised with U.S. President Donald Trump. As a cornerstone of any post-war settlement, Ukraine has sought strong guarantees which commit the U.S. and other Western allies to…
WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said “it’s up to” Chinese President Xi Jinping what China does on Taiwan, but that he would be “very unhappy” with a change in the status quo, according to an interview the New York Times published on Thursday. “He (Xi) considers it to be a part…
By Kanishka Singh and Akanksha Khushi WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said the U.S. will maintain oversight of Venezuela “much longer” than a year and his own judgment is the only limit to his global power, according to a New York Times interview published on Thursday. When asked by the Times if…
By Marianna Parraga and Erin Banco HOUSTON/WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Caracas and Washington have reached a deal to export up to $2 billion worth of Venezuelan crude to the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, a flagship negotiation that would divert supplies from China while helping Venezuela avoid deeper oil production…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Gregor Stuart Hunter A dramatic weekend of events that saw the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces has roiled the oil market as the first full trading week of the year commences, even though global stocks appear to have looked…
NAIROBI, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Kenya’s economy grew by 4.9% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2025, from 4.2% in the same quarter the previous year, statistics office data showed on Tuesday. The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said in a report the growth mainly came from the agriculture sector and the construction industry, which…
BUDAPEST, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Hungary has not managed to secure the type of financial assistance it had originally sought from Washington ahead of a 2026 election, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday, adding that talks on a possible backstop were ongoing. In power since 2010, eurosceptic Orban has struggled to revive Hungary’s economy…
(Corrects paragraph 2 to add dropped word “influence”) By Maria Tsvetkova NEW YORK, Jan 1 (Reuters) – Democrat Zohran Mamdani became New York City’s mayor on Thursday, vowing during a public swearing-in ceremony on the steps of City Hall to enact an aggressive agenda aimed at making the nation’s largest city more affordable for working…
By Jana Winter WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday ordered that the man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington the night before the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack should remain behind bars while his case moves forward. U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Sharbaugh ordered Brian Cole, 30, to be…
