BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s disparate opposition, independent and main Christian parties said on Sunday they had nominated IMF official Jihad Azour for the presidency in a challenge to Hezbollah-backed candidate Suleiman Franjieh. A meeting of the parties endorsed the nomination of Azour, currently director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International…
By Tim Hepher, Aditi Shah and Joanna Plucinska ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Airbus is closing towards a potentially record deal to sell 500 narrow-body A320-family jets to India’s largest carrier IndiGo, industry sources said on Sunday. The European planemaker has emerged as front-runner for an order eclipsing Air India’s historic provisional purchase of 470 jets in…
By Xinghui Kok, Raju Gopalakrishnan and Greg Torode SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Senior officials from about two dozen of the world’s major intelligence agencies held a secret meeting on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore this weekend, five people told Reuters. Such meetings are organised by the Singapore government and have been…
LONDON (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will make new voluntary cuts as part of an OPEC+ deal, an OPEC+ source told Reuters on Sunday. Two other OPEC+ sources said the group is likely to agree a policy roll over until 2023 and make additional cuts in 2024 if new production baselines for members are agreed. (Reporting…
By Jatindra Dash and YP Rajesh BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) -Indian rescue workers completed operations on Sunday after the country’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of an accident that killed at least 275 people. The death toll from Friday’s crash was revised down from 288…
CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry and the United States called on Sudan’s warring factions to agree to a new ceasefire and make efforts to implement it effectively, the Saudi ministry and the U.S. said on Sunday. Saudi Arabia and the United States are keen to continue talks with the two Sudanese negotiating delegations,…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will send two warships to the Indo-Pacific in 2024, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Sunday, amid rising tensions between China and Taiwan and over the disputed South China Sea. Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s most important security conference, Pistorius said countries needed to stand up for the…
By Chen Lin and Kanupriya Kapoor SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu told Asia’s top security summit on Sunday that conflict with the United States would be an “unbearable disaster” but that his country sought dialogue over confrontation. Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Li said the world was big enough for…
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea denounced on Sunday the U.N. Security Council for discussing its recent satellite launch in response to a “gangster-like U.S. request”, and it vowed to reject sanctions and take action to defend itself. The U.S. called for a UNSC meeting last week to discuss North Korea’s attempt to put…
By Chen Lin and Greg Torode SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The United States should ease off military deployments close to China in an act of “good faith” if high-level defence talks between the two superpowers are to resume, a retired veteran Chinese diplomat said in Singapore on Sunday. Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of the…
