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Uber-rival Bolt enters European food delivery business

TARMO VIRKI

Estonia's Bolt, a popular ride-sharing service in Eastern Europe and Africa, on Wednesday launched food delivery service in its home town of Tallinn, the nation's capital, and said it plans to roll out Bolt Food this year in South Africa, Latvia and Lithuania as well.

State Department approves possible $8 billion fighter jet sale to Taiwan: Pentagon

REUTERS EDITORIAL

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $8 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said on Tuesday in an official notification to Congress.

South Korea to increase radiation testing of Japanese food

REUTERS EDITORIAL

South Korea said on Wednesday it will double the radiation testing of some Japanese food exports due to potential contamination from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.

China parliament rules out allowing same-sex marriage

REUTERS EDITORIAL

Limiting marriage to between a man and a woman will remain China's legal position, a parliament spokesman said on Wednesday, ruling out following neighboring Taiwan in allowing same-sex marriage, despite pressure from activists.

Alibaba postpones up to $15 billion Hong Kong listing amid protests: sources

JULIE ZHU

China's biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has delayed its up to $15 billion listing in Hong Kong amid growing political unrest in the Asian financial hub, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

What a wedding massacre says about Trump's plan to leave Afghanistan

The marriage contract had just been signed, and the festivities were in full swing. But just as close relatives of the newlyweds were emerging from an upstairs room to join hundreds of friends and family members at a Kabul wedding hall, an uninvited guest walked forward. What should have been a moment of celebration turned into a scene of unimaginable carnage, as an ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the band playing in the men's section of the venue.

Former CIA director: We are not protected from ISIS

Former CIA Director Leon Panetta warns the possible risk if President Trump does not take the threat of ISIS's growing power seriously.

A sudden cascade of events is challenging Trump's boasts of an unprecedented American winning streak

A sudden cascade of events is challenging President Donald Trump's boasts of an unprecedented American winning streak that is a critical component of his reelection salesmanship.

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Two dead in Kashmir gunbattle, the first since revocation of status

REUTERS EDITORIAL

Indian security forces killed a suspected militant in a gunbattle in Kashmir on Wednesday, police said, the first clash since the federal government removed the special status of the territory this month, fuelling anger.

Trump or Europe? UK's Johnson to sample post-Brexit reality at G7 summit

WILLIAM JAMES

Boris Johnson is about to feel the pinch of Brexit Britain's new global status: squeezed on one side by Europeans in no mood to yield, and on the other by a United States driving a hard bargain for its economic support.

Japan, U.S. ministers meet for trade talks as hopes for early deal fade

YOSHIFUMI TAKEMOTO

Japan and the United States will seek to narrow gaps on trade when their top negotiators meet this week, but hopes for a deal in September are fading as both sides fail to make concessions on agriculture and automobiles, sources say.

Exclusive: Philips, under investigation in U.S. and Brazil, fired whistleblower who warned of graft

BRAD BROOKS

Healthcare giant Philips was warned of suspicious sales of its medical equipment to the Brazilian government, and failed to halt them, nearly a decade before an alleged bribery racket was exposed in the company's Brazil operations last year, Reuters has learned.

Fearing tobacco's fate, palm oil industry fights back

A. ANANTHALAKSHMI

On the morning of Feb. 26, executives from a Washington consultancy presented a strategy paper to some of the most powerful officials in the Malaysian palm oil industry.

Florida officials are investigating why panthers are stumbling and falling down

There have been two confirmed cases of neurological damage in a panther and bobcat in Florida as of this month, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).