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By Tim Kelly, Karen Freifeld and Kentaro Sugiyama TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Japan’s imposition of export controls on chip making tools to align with a U.S. policy restricting China’s ability to produce advanced semiconductors is worrying some officials in Tokyo who believe a combative U.S. approach may hamper coordination and needlessly provoke Beijing. From this week, Japan is restricting 23 types of equipment, ranging from machines that deposit films on […]

By Lori Ewing (Reuters) – Philippines women’s soccer coach Alen Stajcic embraces the opportunity to play host New Zealand’s Football Ferns at the Women’s World Cup on Tuesday, saying the bigger crowd, the better – no matter who they are cheering for. “Traditionally, being a host nation or home team in any game of football has been an advantage,” Stajcic said on the eve of the Philippines’ game at Wellington […]

By Tim Kelly, Karen Freifeld and Kentaro Sugiyama TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Japan’s imposition of export controls on chip making tools to align with a U.S. policy restricting China’s ability to produce advanced semiconductors is worrying some officials in Tokyo who believe a combative U.S. approach may hamper coordination and needlessly provoke Beijing. From this week, Japan is restricting 23 types of equipment, ranging from machines that deposit films on […]

(Reuters) – Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kyle Anderson has obtained Chinese citizenship through naturalisation, the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) said on Monday. The 29-year-old forward from New York is the latest elite athlete to gain Chinese nationality through naturalisation and the first basketball player to do so. “(Anderson) obtained Chinese nationality this morning and met Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association,” the CBA said in a post on its […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was discharged from hospital on Monday ahead of the first ratification vote in a controversial judicial overhaul sought by his religious-nationalist coalition. A Reuters witness saw Netanyahu’s convoy depart Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, which admitted him late on Saturday and fitted him with a pacemaker after doctors said a heart monitor had detected “temporary arrhythmia”. Netanyahu’s office and Sheba said he […]

HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong court will hold sanction hearings over whether to approve embattled Chinese property developer China Evergrande Group’s offshore debt restructuring plan on Sept. 5 and Sept. 6, the court ruled on Monday. A convening hearing for Evergrande’s offshore debt restructuring plan was held in Hong Kong’s High Court on Monday. A separate hearing will also take place at a Cayman Islands court on Tuesday. […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – The leader of Germany’s centre-right Christian Democrats, Friedrich Merz, said he was open to working with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) at the local level, though not in state or national government. Founded a decade ago, the nationalist, anti-immigrant AfD recently reached a new high in an opinion poll, gaining two percentage points from the previous week to hit 22%. That still places the AfD behind […]

(Reuters) -An electric truck which was previously damaged reignited at Nikola’s Phoenix, Arizona headquarters on Sunday afternoon but there were no injuries, the electric-truck maker said in a statement. “At approximately 2 pm today at Nikola HQ, one of the trucks that was previously damaged reignited. No one was injured and the fire was quickly contained,” the company said. The damaged trucks were kept at the company’s Phoenix site for […]

By Tom Westbrook SYDNEY (Reuters) – The dollar and euro made firm starts on Monday to a week full of central bank meetings, while the yen was struggling on investor expectation the Bank of Japan will be the odd one out as policymakers hike rates in Europe and the United States. The Federal Reserve concludes a meeting on Wednesday, followed by the European Central Bank (ECB) a day later and […]