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☆ Gaffes, controversy overshadow S.Korea's Yoon trips to U.N., London
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Hyonhee Shin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Amr AlfikySEOUL, Sept 23 (Reuters) - A series of gaffes and controversies is overshadowing South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's first major overseas tour, sending his ratings plunging and inviting scathing criticism from some lawmakers even within his own party. This week, Yoon visited London for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth and then New York in his first U.S. trip to attend the U.N. General Assembly, before arriving in Canada on Thursday. His press secretary, Kim Eun-hye, dismissed the accusation, saying Yoon was referring to the South Korean parliament without mentioning Biden. Yoon and Biden had planned informal talks in New York, but ended up having just a 48-second chat at the Global Fund. Yoon's office said that was a "Plan B" due to changes in Biden's schedule, and said they also met in London when Yoon raised the EV subsidies issue.

☆ Turkey's Erdogan to hold meeting on Russian Mir payments, possible sanctions -sources
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Orhan Coskun | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan addresses the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 20, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky/FIle PhotoANKARA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will convene a top tier economy-focused meeting on Friday at which Russian payment system Mir and possible Western sanctions will be discussed, two sources with information on the matter told Reuters. Earlier on Thursday, the head of Russia's National Card Payments System said Mir bank cards continued to work in Turkey, despite the two banks suspending them. read moreRussia's central bank vowed last week to push ahead with expanding the number of countries that accept its Mir cards. The U.S. sanctions target people and entities accused of helping Moscow skirt financial sanctions.

"The speech of President Putin demonstrates that the war is not going according to President Putin's plans. 1/6 Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni interviews NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the Reuters office in New York City, U.S., September 21, 2022. That will mean more suffering, more loss of lives - Ukrainian lives, but also Russian lives," Stoltenberg added. "The only way to end this war is to prove that President Putin will not win on the battlefield. When he realizes that, he has to sit down and negotiate a reasonable agreement with Ukraine," said Stoltenberg, the former Norwegian prime minister.

☆ U.S. rents surge, leaving behind generation of younger workers
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Rose Horowitch | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

REUTERS/Amr AlfikySept 21 (Reuters) - The cost of renting a home in the United States is surging and young workers have felt the sharpest pain, many of them taking on additional jobs or roommates to afford housing costs. Household rents in 2021 jumped 10% from pre-pandemic levels, according to Census Bureau estimates released last week. The 23-year-old spent a year in an apartment in New York City's Queens borough with a door that wouldn’t lock. Recent college graduate Caleb Seamon, 22, started delivering for Uber Eats alongside his full-time job at a think-tank to afford housing. Even so, Seamon says he only found a New York apartment because one of his roommate's parents acted as guarantors.

☆ Turkey's Erdogan says U.S. senators gave 'positive' feedback on F-16s
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Humeyra Pamuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterTurkey's President Tayyip Erdogan arrives to address the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 20, 2022. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThat sentiment could derail the F-16 sale. "They're speaking positively," Erdogan told Reuters at the United Nations before his meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. In recent days in New York, Erdogan met with U.S. senators Lindsey Graham and Chris Coons. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Grant McCoolOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Taking swipe at Russia, Macron says fence sitters need to wake up
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( John Irish | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

France's President Emmanuel Macron addresses the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 20, 2022. In a speech to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, Macron warned that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was dividing the world and restoring the "age of colonialism." read more"It's not about choosing a camp between East and West, but the responsibility of everybody to respect the UN charter." Not those who are coming to you today with the idea of a new world order. Not those who didn't a have a vaccine that worked and offer nothing in the face of climate change," he said.

☆ Polluters must pay, says UN chief, urges taxes to help climate victims
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Michelle Nichols | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"The fossil fuel industry is feasting on hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies and windfall profits while household budgets shrink and our planet burns," he said. While Guterres again pushed developed countries to tax the fossil fuel windfall profits, this time he also used his platform to spell out where the money should be spent. He also said multilateral development banks "must step up and deliver" and that helping poor countries adapt to worsening climate shocks "must make up half of all climate finance." "Just as they did for the tobacco industry decades before, lobbyists and spin doctors have spewed harmful misinformation," Guterres said. "Fossil fuel interests need to spend less time averting a PR disaster – and more time averting a planetary one."

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