LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s parliament was embroiled in a growing sleaze scandal tpday as allegations of lawmakers being paid for external work which may have breached parliamentary rules dominated the headlines.
GLASGOW, (Reuters) – Six major automakers will today commit to phasing out the production of fossil-fuel vehicles around the world by 2040, as part of global efforts to cut carbon emissions, the British government said in a statement.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. congressional committee probing the deadly Jan.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A virtual meeting planned between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will be held as soon as next week, a person briefed on the matter told Reuters.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States will continue a Trump-era ban on U.S.
HANOI, (Reuters) – Facebook’s parent company said yesterday it had unblocked the hashtag for celebrity chef Nusret Gokce’s nickname ‘#saltbae’, having found the tag had been blocked globally days after a video was posted online of Gokce feeding a gold-encrusted steak to a senior Viet-namese Communist Party official in London.
GLASGOW, Scotland, (Reuters) – The president of the U.N. climate talks said yesterday there was still a mountain to climb towards a goal of capping the global temperature rise at 1.5 Celsius, as a re-search group said existing pledges would allow the Earth to warm far beyond that.
BELGRADE, (Reuters) – A few hundred meters from the huge furnaces of the Chinese-owned Smedrevo steel mill in central Serbia, the village of Radinac is covered in thick red dust.
BELGRADE, (Reuters) – A few hundred meters from the huge furnaces of the Chinese-owned Smedrevo steel mill in central Serbia, the village of Radinac is covered in thick red dust.
HANOI, (Reuters) – Facebook’s parent company said on Tuesday it had unblocked the hashtag for celebrity chef Nusret Gokce’s nickname ‘#saltbae’, having found the tag had been blocked globally days after a video was posted online of Gokce feeding a gold-encrusted steak to a senior Vietnamese Communist Party official in London.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The British government apologised yesterday for its botched attempt to protect a ruling party lawmaker by changing rules designed to prevent corruption in parliament, a debacle in which Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s integrity has been questioned.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States plans to invest in five to 10 large infrastructure projects around the world in January as part of a broader Group of Seven initiative to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a senior U.S.
LISBON, (Reuters) – Portuguese police have clamped down on a crime ring that allegedly involved the country’s U.N.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Houston’s police chief said yesterday he met briefly with hip-hop star Travis Scott to voice his “public safety concerns” before the rapper took the stage for a weekend performance that ended with eight people killed and dozens more injured in a stampede.
NIAMEY, (Reuters) – At least 25 primary school children were killed when their thatched-roof classrooms caught fire in southern Niger on Monday, the council of ministers said in a statement.
GLASGOW, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Small island nations such as Jamaica and Dominica, like many others in the Caribbean, are battered regularly by tropical storms that are getting fiercer as the ocean warms, threatening to wreck homes, energy grids, hospitals, roads and ports.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Daniel Ortega easily secured a fourth consecutive term as Nicaragua’s president, early results showed today, after the former guerrilla fighter suppressed political rivals in a vote critics said was rigged but which won Russian recognition.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s military has built mockups in the shape of a U.S.
KABUL, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations children’s agency kicked off a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan today, the first nationwide campaign to fight the disease in three years.
GLASGOW, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Negotiations on rules for global carbon markets at the COP26 U.N.
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