ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Rich countries agreed yesterday to try to cap the global price of Russian oil, while Russia delayed the re-opening of its main gas pipeline to Germany, as both sides raised the stakes in an energy war between Moscow and the West over Ukraine.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $1.1 billion sale of military equipment to Taiwan, including 60 anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles, with China threatening to take counter measures.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned India’s first home-built aircraft carrier yesterday, underlining his government’s efforts to boost domestic production to supply a military deployed on two contentious borders.
TAIPEI, (Reuters) – The shooting down of a drone off the Chinese coast that buzzed a Taiwanese-controlled island was the most “appropriate” thing to do after repeated warnings, and China should exercise restraint, Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Friday.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned India’s first home-built aircraft carrier today, underlining his government’s efforts to boost domestic production to supply a military deployed on two contentious borders.
PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden charged Republican allies of Donald Trump with undermining the country’s democracy and urged voters yesterday to reject extremism ahead of November’s midterm elections.
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – United Nations nuclear experts who crossed into Russian-held territory in Ukraine to assess the safety of Europe’s biggest atomic energy plant were seeking today to assess physical damage to the facility, where both sides warn of possible disaster.
JACKSON, Miss., (Reuters) – Seven new distribution sites opened in Mississippi’s state capital yesterday to dispense bottled water to people who have been without clean tap water since the city’s long-troubled treatment plant failed four days ago.
EAST LONDON, South Africa, (Reuters) – Twenty one young people who died in a tavern tragedy in June were suffocated, five parents said on Thursday, relaying to reporters what health department officials told them was the conclusion of an official probe.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – A Malaysian court today sentenced Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, to a decade in prison for seeking and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts, just days after her husband was jailed for corruption.
(Reuters) – China’s “arbitrary and discriminatory detention” of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the country’s Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing U.N.
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – United Nations inspectors in Ukraine were due today to visit a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, where nearby shelling has prompted bitter recriminations and global fears of disaster.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba, mired in an energy crisis that has brought frequent blackouts, is negotiating with a Turkish company to have it double the megawatts it currently produces for the country from shipboard generators just offshore, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest surged in August to the highest for the month since 2010, government data showed on Wednesday, surpassing the blazes in August 2019 that drew global attention soon after President Jair Bolsonaro took office.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s aides are reaching out to Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to form a united front of countries with the most tropical rainforest at this year’s U.N.
KYIV, (Reuters) – U.N. nuclear inspectors set off in convoy for Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant today after weeks of shelling nearby sparked fears of a Chornobyl-style radiation disaster, with tensions rising between Kyiv and Moscow over the visit.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba, mired in an energy crisis that has brought frequent blackouts, is negotiating with a Turkish company to have it double the megawatts it currently produces for the country from shipboard generators just offshore, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.