South Korea hints at compensating victims of Japan’s colonial forced labour

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -The South Korean government unveiled a plan on Thursday to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime forced labour through its own public foundation – instead of using funds from Japanese companies – prompting backlash from victims and their families. South Korea’s Supreme Court in 2018 ordered Japanese firms to pay reparations …

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Alcaldesa Ciudad de México anuncia despliegue Guardia Nacional en el metro tras accidentes “atípicos”

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 12 ene (Reuters) – La alcaldesa de Ciudad de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, anunció el jueves el despliegue de más de 6,000 elementos de la Guardia Nacional en estaciones y “otras instalaciones” del metro de la capital, luego de una serie de incidentes que calificó como fuera de lo normal. Sheinbaum, una de …

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Russia releases U.S. Navy veteran into Poland, says former Governor Richardson

By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia on Thursday released a U.S. citizen who had crossed into its Kaliningrad exclave in the first weeks of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February, former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, who met the man at the border in Poland, said in a statement. U.S. Navy veteran Taylor …

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Special counsel named to probe Biden’s handling of documents

By Sarah N. Lynch and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden’s handling of sensitive government documents – an inquiry that could cast a shadow over the Democrat’s expected run for re-election in 2024. The top U.S. law enforcement …

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Italy’s Meloni renews criticism of euro zone bailout fund

ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday renewed her criticism of the euro zone bailout fund, a 500-billion-euro ($541.55 billion) facility held back by Rome’s reluctance to ratify its recently-adopted reform. Meloni aired her concerns about the so-called European Stability Mechanism (ESM) in a meeting in Rome with the fund’s top managers, Director …

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Germany says its borrowing rose in 2022 due to pandemic, Ukraine war

BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government’s net borrowing rose to 115.4 billion euros ($124.5 billion) in 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, but was lower than originally expected, the country’s finance ministry said on Thursday. Last year, government borrowing was at its third-highest level in the history of Germany, following …

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Biden slams House Republicans’ plans on taxes, says they will make inflation worse

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Biden criticized House Republicans who have taken control of Congress for backing tax measures that he said would benefit the wealthy at the expense of middle class taxpayers, and make inflation worse. The Republican-controlled House passed a bill Monday night that would slash tens of billions of funding …

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