BAMAKO (Reuters) - West African presidents plan to fly to Mali as regional powers escalate efforts to block a coup-driven regime change, two sources said, after an opposition coalition there joined the junta in rejecting foreign interference.

Leaders of the 15-nation

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will take “all necessary measures” to protect its firms’ legitimate interests, the Commerce Ministry said on Thursday, in response to the U.S. move this week to further tighten restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co.

The Trump administration on Monday expanded restrictions announced in May aimed at preventing

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Central European nations should unite to preserve their Christian roots as western Europe experiments with same-sex families, immigration and atheism, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday.

Orban, a nationalist who has been

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in named Lee Seung-heon on Thursday as the new senior deputy governor at the central bank and voting board member on its monetary policy committee.

Lee, a veteran central banker with almost three decades of experience at the Bank of Korea, replaces retiring senior deputy governor Yoon Myun-shik whose three-year term ends on Thursday.

Lee’s appointment to the second highest post at the BOK completes the leadership shake-up at the BOK for this

HANOI (Reuters) - The presence of Chinese bombers on the disputed Paracel islands in the South China Sea “jeopardises peace”, Vietnam’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, in another sign of disapproval in the region of Beijing’s increased defence activities.

China, which has for years been locked in maritime disputes with other coastal states in the South China Sea, has in recent months boosted its presence and exercises in disputed parts of the strategic waterway, at a time when other claimants are battling coronavirus outbreaks.

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Youth unemployment in Sweden hit its highest level this century in July due to the widespread economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic and measures to halt its spread, figures from the Statistics

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has drawn criticism from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives with his proposal to suspend the constitutionally enshrined debt brake in 2021 after abandoning it this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Scholz asked parliament in June to suspend the debt brake and allow record new borrowing of

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported 2,266 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, bringing the total number of cases in the Southeast Asian country to 147,211.

Data from the health ministry showed an additional 72 deaths,

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - As the U.S.-China “tech war” widens, investors are betting on China’s efforts to replace U.S. technologies with indigenous applications to run networks in the state sector.

In recent months, local governments and state firms such