LONDON (Reuters) – The world has moved on from former British prime minister Boris Johnson and the governing Conservative Party and the rest of the country do not miss the drama of his period in office, energy minister Grant Shapps said on Sunday. Johnson quit parliament late on Friday in protest against an investigation by…
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s air force scrambled into action on Sunday after spotting 10 Chinese warplanes crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait, as the island’s defence ministry said four Chinese warships also carried out combat patrols. This is the second time in less than a week that Taiwan has reported renewed Chinese military…
By Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss HAMBURG (Reuters) – BioNTech will go to court on Monday to defend itself against a lawsuit from a German woman who is seeking damages for alleged side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine, the first of potentially hundreds of cases in the country. The woman, exercising her right under German…
(Reuters) – Germany’s Finance Minister Christian Lindner is refusing Intel’s demands for higher subsidies for a 17-billion-euro ($18-billion) chip plant, saying the country could not afford it, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. “There is no more money available in the budget,” the newspaper quoted Lindner as saying in an interview. “We are trying to…
By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged on Saturday that his military was engaged in “counter-offensive and defensive operations” a day after Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin said Kyiv’s long-vaunted drive to retake territory was well under way. But the Ukrainian leader disclosed no details, telling reporters to pass on to Putin that his…
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country’s south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said. The siblings were rescued by the military near the border between…
(Reuters) -Germany’s Finance Minister Christian Lindner is refusing Intel’s demands for higher subsidies for a 17-billion-euro ($18-billion) chip plant, saying the country could not afford it, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. “There is no more money available in the budget,” the newspaper quoted Lindner as saying in an interview. “We are trying to consolidate…
(Reuters) – Germany’s Finance Minister Christian Lindner refuses to meet Intel Corp’s demands for higher subsidies for its chip plant in the country, saying that there is no money in the budget, Financial Times reported on Sunday. “There is no more money available in the budget,” the newspaper quoted Lindner as saying in an interview,…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Honduras opened an embassy in China on Sunday, Chinese state media reported, after the Central American nation cut diplomatic relations with Taiwan earlier this year. The embassy in Beijing was opened by foreign ministers from the two countries, state broadcaster CCTV reported. Honduran President Xiomara Castro is in China for a state…
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) – Republicans in Michigan approved a proposal on Saturday to select more than two-thirds of their state delegates for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination via caucus meetings, a change that could help party front-runner Donald Trump. The plan, which Michigan’s Republican state committee approved during a meeting in Grand Rapids, would…
