DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland intends to increase core public expenditure by 6.1% next year in an overall budget package of 6.4 billion euros ($6.98 billion), according to its Summer Economic Statement. Two years ago, the government said it would try to anchor expenditure growth to the growth rate of the economy, at around 5% per…
By Huw Jones and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – British banks should have to serve a customer even if they disagree with his or her lawful political views, and should apply anti-money laundering checks proportionately, financial services minister Andrew Griffith said on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday Nigel Farage, the former Brexit Party leader, said British…
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian officials said at least 38 people, including 12 children, were wounded in a Russian missile strike on Tuesday which an officer said targeted a military funeral in the northeastern Kharkiv region. Television footage from the small town of Pervomaiskyi showed a tall residential building with smashed windows and black smoke pouring…
ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis’ peace envoy for Ukraine, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, said on Tuesday he is working on a “mechanism” that could ensure the return of children who according to Kyiv have been abducted to Russia. “We’ll see how we can start the mechanism for the children (and) help as we have said on…
By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -A campaign to raise money for the family of the policeman who shot dead French teenager Nahel M. topped 1.47 million euros($1.6 million) on Tuesday, far outstripping donations to Nahel’s family and causing shame and anger among many French people. The fallout from the shooting, and from the wave of…
By Krishn Kaushik and YP Rajesh NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Tuesday sought to forge closer ties and boost cooperation within the expanding Eurasian bloc but stressed the group is not directed against any other states. A joint declaration by the leaders at the end of an online summit…
By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) – The Church of England’s governing body will deliberate on how priests could carry out blessings for same-sex couples when it gathers in the cathedral city of York for a five-day meeting on Friday. The assembly of bishops, clergy and laity – called the General Synod – is also due…
By Amruta Khandekar and Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) -European shares were steady in thin trading on Tuesday, with a lack of fresh economic data from the region and uncertainty around the direction of global interest rates keeping investors cautious. The pan-European STOXX 600 index inched 0.1% higher at the close, trading within a two-point range for…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – RusKhimAlyans, a subsidiary of Russian gas giant Gazprom, has filed lawsuits seeking a total of 31 billion roubles ($348 million) from Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, Russian court documents show. RusKhimAlyans, in which Gazprom has a 50% stake, is seeking more than 22 billion roubles from Deutsche Bank and over 8 billion roubles…
By Joanna Plucinska and Tim Hepher FILTON, England (Reuters) – Airbus is stepping up testing of radical new wing technology as the planemaker lays the foundation for a future successor to its best-selling A320 series, but faces a battle to bring down costs. British Industry Minister Nusrat Ghani inaugurated a wing technology plant in southwest…
