By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian share markets turned hesitant on Monday as investors fretted about the economic fallout from fresh COVID-19 restrictions in China, while bonds and the dollar braced for more updates on U.S. monetary policy. Beijin…
Ukraine says Russians pounding frontline positions with artillery
(Reuters) – Russian forces are pounding Ukrainian positions with artillery fire and in the eastern region alone launched almost 400 strikes on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address. Russia withdrew its forces from the southern c…
G7 calls for ‘significant’ U.N. response to North Korea missile launches
ROME (Reuters) -The United Nations’ Security Council needs to take “significant measures” in response to the latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch by North Korea, foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialised nations said…
COP27 delivers climate fund breakthrough at cost of progress on emissions
(This Nov. 20 story has been refiled to fix spelling error in paragraph 10) By Valerie Volcovici, Dominic Evans and William James SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – Countries closed this year’s U.N. climate summit on Sunday with a hard-fought deal to c…
Soccer-Kane in a hurry to surpass Rooney’s England scoring record
By Martyn Herman DOHA (Reuters) – Harry Kane said he hopes to break Wayne Rooney’s England scoring record “as soon as possible” as the striker prepares to lead his country into their World Cup Group B opener with Iran on Monday. Kane, who won the Golde…
COP27 summit agrees climate deal
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – The COP27 summit on Sunday agreed an overarching climate deal at a closing plenary session in Sharm el-Sheikh. COP27 president Sameh Shoukry brought the gavel down to signify the document representing the political ag…
Ukraine power supplies are under control, no need to panic -ministry
(Reuters) -Ukrainian electricity supplies are under control despite a series of Russian attacks on power-generating infrastructure and there is no need to panic, the energy ministry said on Saturday. Separately, the head of DTEK, the country’s largest …
Musk’s Twitter poll showing narrow majority want Trump reinstated
By Sheila Dang and Helen Coster (Reuters) – Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favor of reinstating the former U.S. President, who was banned from the social media service for incit…
COP27 nears breakthrough on climate finance in scramble for final deal
By Kate Abnett, Shadia Nasralla and Gloria Dickie SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -Negotiators at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt neared a breakthrough deal on Saturday for a fund to help poor countries being ravaged by the impacts of global warming…
COP27 climate summit considers new proposal for ‘loss and damage’ fund
By Kate Abnett and Shadia Nasralla SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -The United Nations climate agency on Saturday published a draft proposal for a deal to tackle the issue of “loss and damage” that said the COP27 summit would agree to launch a new fun…