YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Armenian and Azeri forces fought new clashes on Friday, defying hopes of ending nearly three weeks of fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Turkey for inflaming the situation by arming the Azeris.
YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Armenian and Azeri forces fought new clashes on Friday, defying hopes of ending nearly three weeks of fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Turkey for inflaming the situation by arming the Azeris.
WASHINGTON/OTTAWA (Reuters) - The United States’ land borders between Canada and Mexico will remain closed to all non-essential travel until Nov. 21, the U.S. Homeland Security Department said Monday.
OTTAWA, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Business sentiment in Canada has improved as COVID-19 restrictions have eased, though it remains “negative” with one-third of firms saying they do not expect sales to return to pre-pandemic levels within the next 12 months, a Bank of Canada survey showed on Monday.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will join forces with the United States and Europe to take on any market abuses by the four Big Tech companies, the new head of its antitrust watchdog said on Monday, a sign Tokyo will join global efforts to regulate digital platform operators.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twitter on Sunday removed a “misleading” tweet downplaying the efficacy of masks posted by a top coronavirus adviser to President Donald Trump, while U.S. cases surged before the Nov. 3 election.
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union will on Monday attempt to breathe life into post-Brexit trade talks that appeared all but dead last week, with each side telling the other it needed to fundamentally change course.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian markets advanced toward a recent 2-1/2-year peak on Monday powered by hopes of a U.S fiscal package and expectations of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year, though weaker-than-expected Chinese data capped gains.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is continuing to work for a Brexit accord, the head of the bloc’s executive said on Friday after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was time to prepare for a no-trade deal split at the end of the year.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police used water cannon and pushed forward with riot shields and batons on Friday to try to disperse thousands of protesters who defied a ban on protests for a second day and in spite of a warning from Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.
SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices edged down on Wednesday under pressure from growing concerns that a recovery in fuel demand will be stalled by soaring coronavirus cases around the world.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was not ready to tolerate the unacceptable way it said the European Union had treated it over the poisoning case of Alexei Navalny, and could not maintain a dialogue with the bloc by its own efforts alone.
