Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Rich nations should step-up support for poorer countries to go green, Japan says
By Katya Golubkova and Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Rich nations should boost financial and technical support to poorer countries to help them tackle climate change and achieve similar decarbonisat...
May 17, 2023
German economy ministry official leaves post amid nepotism scandal – Spiegel
BERLIN (Reuters) - A senior official in the German economy ministry is leaving his post after a nepotism scandal prompted scrutiny of his relationship with Economy Minister Robert Habeck, the Spiegel ...
May 17, 2023
Finnish embassy bank accounts frozen in Russia, foreign ministry says
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Bank accounts of Finland's embassies in Russia have been frozen, the Finnish foreign ministry said on Wednesday. A ministry spokesperson told Reuters the bank accounts of both Fin...
May 17, 2023
Ukraine denies Russia destroyed Patriot missile defence system
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine denied on Wednesday that a Russian hypersonic missile had destroyed a U.S.-made Patriot missile defence system during an air strike on Kyiv. Russia's defence ministry made the...
May 17, 2023
Out of vetoes, Portugal president enacts law allowing euthanasia
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's conservative President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has signed a bill decriminialising euthanasia into law in the Catholic-majority country after parliament on Friday overturn...
May 17, 2023
India’s top court gives market watchdog 3 more months to finish Adani probe
By Jayshree P Upadhyay and Arpan Chaturvedi MUMBAI (Reuters) -India's Supreme Court on Wednesday granted the country's market regulator additional time till August 14 to complete its investigation int...
May 17, 2023
Analysis-Australia’s push for faster EV uptake will be slow to charge
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians are starting to buy electric vehicles in large numbers, and the government is trying to accelerate the adoption of cleaner cars, but industry executives...
May 17, 2023
Turkey opposition says irregularities at thousands of ballot boxes
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's main opposition party determined there were irregularities at 2,269 ballot boxes for the presidential election and at 4,825 boxes for the parliamentary election that took p...
May 17, 2023
Indonesia communications minister arrested for graft
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities on Wednesday arrested a senior cabinet minister on corruption charges in a case they said caused more than half a billion dollars in state losses. Johnny G. ...
May 17, 2023
Neglected Igbo-Ukwu Bronzes get new life at Nigerian museum
By Angela Ukomadu LAGOS (Reuters) - At the National Museum in Lagos, workers carefully remove rust and patina from Igbo-Ukwu Bronze artefacts, part of restoration work on some of Nigeria's oldest but ...
May 17, 2023
