Tag: Reuters

Russia says Zircon hypersonic missile hit target in latest test (Reuters)

Russia said on Monday it had carried out another successful test launch of its Zircon hypersonic cruise missile, hailed by President Vladimir Putin as...

EU plans media act, industry chief Breton says, amid curbs on freedom (Foo Yun Chee, Reuters)

The European Commission plans to introduce rules next year to prevent a few large media groups from acquiring smaller rivals and to thwart government...

Lebanese protesters block roads over economic meltdown (Reuters)

Demonstrators, some of them burning tyres, blocked roads across parts of Lebanon on Monday in protest at the country's economic meltdown, days after the...

Hong Kong seeks arrest of two activists accused of inciting blank votes at election (Reuters)

Hong Kong authorities issued arrest warrants on Monday for two activists living abroad for inciting people not to vote or to cast blank votes...

India’s parliament passes bill to repeal controversial farm laws (Nigam Prusty, Reuters)

India's parliament on Monday passed a bill to repeal three laws aiming at deregulating agricultural markets, bowing to pressure from farmers who have protested...

Russia says Twitter mobile slowdown to remain until all banned content is removed (Gleb Stolyarov, Reuters)

Russia will continue slowing down the speed of Twitter (TWTR.N) on mobile devices until all content deemed illegal is deleted, state communications regulator Roskomnadzor told Reuters,...

Australia looks set for May 2022 election as budget brought forward (Reuters)

Australia's ruling coalition, trailing in the opinion polls, brought forward its annual budget by two months, according to a parliamentary timetable published on Monday,...

Botswana appeals court upholds ruling that decriminalised gay sex (Reuters)

Botswana's Court of Appeal on Monday upheld a 2019 ruling that decriminalised gay sex, a decision hailed by gay community as establishing the southern...

Opposition Leftist Races to Big Lead in Honduras Election Vote Count (Reuters, VoA)

Leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro raced to an early lead in the Honduran presidential election on Sunday, partial election results showed, putting her in...

Moscow tells 13 mostly U.S. tech firms they must set up in Russia by 2022 (Alexander Marrow and Gleb Stolyarov, Reuters)

Russia has demanded that 13 foreign and mostly U.S. technology companies be officially represented on Russian soil by the end of 2021 or face...

German parties agree on 2030 coal phase-out in coalition talks -sources (Markus Wacket, Reuters)

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Free Democrats, who are negotiating to form a new government, have agreed to commit to a coal phase-out...

Britain’s Drax eyes ’emissions negative’ U.S. biomass plant (Susanna Twidale, Reuters)

Britain's Drax (DRX.L) is considering building a biomass plant in the United States whose power generation it says will absorb more emissions than it...

Giant pipeline in U.S. Midwest tests future of carbon capture (Leah Douglas, Reuters)

Dan Tronchetti received a letter in August that alarmed him: Summit Carbon Solutions, a company he'd never heard of, wanted his permission to conduct...

Big climate change job awaits WTO – if it can step up (Mark John, Reuters)

From laying down the law on fossil fuel subsidies to promoting low-carbon supply chains, there is no shortage of ways in which the World...

‘Living hand to mouth’: Europe’s gas crunch shows little sign of easing (Susanna Twidale, Nora Buli, Reuters)

Consumers in the European Union and Britain face further gas price spikes this winter as flows of Russian gas via major transit routes are...

Portugal’s power production goes coal-free long before deadline (Reuters)

Portugal shut down its last remaining coal plant over the weekend, ending the use of the polluting material for electricity generation and becoming the...