By Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) -European shares eked out gains on Friday as data pointing to slowing U.S. job growth eased concerns about interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve but did little to change the main STOXX 600 index’s worst weekly showing in almost four months. The STOXX 600 rose 0.1% by 1615 GMT, turning…
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) – Copper miners in Peru, already battling political uncertainty and regular protests, say they have another hurdle to revving up stalled production of the red metal: too much red tape. The South American country, the world’s No. 2 copper producer, has seen output plateau in the last five years as…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO leaders will meet in Vilnius on July 11-12 to tackle a wide range of topics, from divisions over Ukraine’s membership bid and Sweden’s accession to boosting ammunitions stockpiles and reviewing the first defence plans in decades. It will be the fourth NATO summit since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the first…
By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – With war dragging on, some of Ukraine’s millions of refugees are beginning to think about settling for good in the countries they find themselves in across Europe, posing a challenge to rebuilding the economy when the guns finally fall silent. Natalka Korzh, 52, a TV director and mother-of-two, left…
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – (This July 6 story has been refiled to say that Sweden government is considering changing the law to allow police to stop Koran burnings in public, not making it illegal to burn the book in public or in private) The Swedish government is examining whether it could change the law to stop…
By Andrew Gray and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO leaders gather in Vilnius next week aiming to overcome divisions on Ukraine’s push for a path to membership and end Turkey’s block on Sweden joining the transatlantic military alliance. With the war in Ukraine still casting a dark shadow over Europe, the summit in the…
By Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) -The head of NATO said on Friday the military alliance would unite at a summit next week on how to bring Kyiv closer to joining, while Ukraine’s president drummed up support for its membership bid on a tour of several NATO states. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the Czech Republic and…
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s $1.4 trillion sovereign wealth fund has excluded Power Construction Corp of China from its portfolio and placed London-listed Petrofac under observation. The Norwegian wealth fund, set up in 1996 to save petroleum revenues for future generations, operates under ethical guidelines set by parliament and excludes investments in companies that it says…
(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited Slovakia on Friday and met his Slovak counterpart Zuzana Caputova, who urged NATO allies to give Ukraine a clearer view on its bid to become a part of the military alliance. Zelenskiy was on the third stop of a tour of several NATO states to drum up support for…
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The World Court on July 19 and 20 will hear a request by the Netherlands and Canada that it order Syria to cease all acts of torture and arbitrary detention, as part of a case alleging the country has breached a U.N. anti-torture treaty. The hearing at the Peace Palace, the…
