Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Fire at Russian electric equipment plant kills three
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three people died and two were injured in a fire that broke out at an electrical equipment plant in the Russian city of Voronezh on Monday, the emergencies ministry said. The cause ...
Apr 22, 2024
Russia says West is teetering on brink of conflict between nuclear powers
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that the support of the United States, Britain and France for Ukraine was stoking serious strategic risks that had raised the r...
Apr 22, 2024
Return of colonial-era statue to Congo fuels environmental revival
By Benoit Nyemba LUSANGA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Joyful singing and cheers echoed around the hills surrounding a small village in western Democratic Republic of Congo as a procession emerged f...
Apr 22, 2024
Prices of EVs, plug-in hybrids fall in Chinese city of Shenzhen, state planner says
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Prices of electric cars and plug-in hybrids in China's Southern Shenzhen city, a metropolis with high EV adoption, have fallen 5% to 10% this year, the country's state planner sai...
Apr 22, 2024
Indonesian court rejects first of two petitions seeking election re-run
By Ananda Teresia and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian court on Monday rejected in full a challenge from losing candidate Anies Baswedan seeking a re-run of February's presidential e...
Apr 22, 2024
North Koreans may have helped create Western cartoons, report says
By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korean animators may have helped create popular television cartoons for big Western firms, including Amazon and HBO Max, despite international sanction...
Apr 22, 2024
Mongolia signs landmark climate finance deal for its grasslands
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Mongolia's government and a coalition of partners have signed a nature finance agreement aimed at protecting 35.6 million acres (144,000 square km) of the country's la...
Apr 22, 2024
UK's Thames Water proposes spending more on environmental projects
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Thames Water, which is fighting for survival, said it proposed spending an additional 1.1 billion pounds ($1.36 billion) on environmental projects over the next five years,...
Apr 22, 2024
Exclusive-ECB governors fear Fed-style 'dot plot' would invite political pressure, sources say
By Francesco Canepa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - European Central Bank governors fear publishing their interest rate forecasts would invite pressure from governments trying to gauge if their central banker ...
Apr 22, 2024
Germany's BDI warns industrial production to slump further in 2024
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's BDI flagged on Monday that industrial production is likely to decline again this year and exports will stagnate, as the industry lobby flanked by other groups painted an u...
Apr 22, 2024
