(Reuters) – Russia struck the Pechenihy dam on the Siverskyi Donets River in northeast Ukraine this week using short-range ballistic missiles or similar weapons, the British military said on Saturday. The attack on Sept. 21 and 22 followed an earlier o…
Ireland hikes surplus forecast ahead of budget
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland on Saturday almost doubled its budget surplus forecast for 2022 to 0.9% of gross domestic product thanks to booming corporate tax revenues, giving it extra resources to help consumers with inflationary pressures. The forecast…
King Charles pictured with official red box in new photo
LONDON (Reuters) – King Charles has been pictured with his official red box in which the British monarch receives government documents, in a photograph released by Buckingham Palace on Friday as the new king takes up his official duties. The locked red…
Euro, sterling plunge on soft business activity data, UK budget woes
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – The euro and sterling plummeted to fresh 20-year and 37-year lows against a surging U.S. dollar on Friday after surveys showed the downturn in business activity across the euro zone and Britain accelerat…
In poor, rural Buryatia, Russia’s partial mobilisation hits hard
By Felix Light LONDON (Reuters) – A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilisation to boost the armies fighting in Ukraine, officials arrived at Alexander Bezdorozhny’s house with draft papers ordering him to present himself …
UK police arrest 17-year-old on suspicion of hacking
LONDON (Reuters) -British police have arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking, as part of an investigation supported by the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), City of London Police said on Twitter on Friday. The male was arrested o…
Stocks tumble, dollar soars and bonds plunge as recession fears grow
By Herbert Lash, Amanda Cooper and Tommy Wilkes NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. and European stocks tumbled on Friday, the dollar scaled a 22-year high and bonds sold off again as fears grew that a central bank prescription of raising interest rates t…
Italy’s election campaign ends, tensions between EU and right flares
By Crispian Balmer and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s leaders held their final rallies on Friday ahead of a parliamentary election at the weekend that is expected to be won by a rightist alliance, putting Rome on possible collision course with …
Exclusive-Ukraine will never forgive Russia – Russian Nobel laureate
(Reuters) – Ukraine will never forgive Russia for a shameful conflict which has thrown back Russia’s development by half a century to Soviet times predating Mikhail Gorbachev, journalist and Nobel Peace laureate Dmitry Muratov told Reuters. Russia’s mi…
EU’s green shift depends on mammoth investment in energy grid – draft
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Investments of more than half a trillion euros will be needed to modernise Europe’s energy grid this decade, if countries are to succeed in ramping up wind and solar power to break free from Russian gas, a draft EU d…