By Tom Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Monday it had driven Russian forces out of an eighth village in its two-week-old counteroffensive and a defence official vowed Kyiv’s “biggest blow” lay ahead despite tough resistance from Moscow’s troops. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said Ukrainian forces had retaken Piatykhatky, a settlement…
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -One of Honduras’ leading anti-corruption advocates on Monday said she had left the Central American nation because of threats, weeks after accusing President Xiomara Castro’s government of nepotism. Gabriela Castellanos, executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Council (CNA), which has investigated public corruption in Honduras for nearly a decade, left the country on…
By Kate Abnett LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) -European Union countries failed on Monday to agree on planned new rules for the bloc’s power market, having clashed over a proposal to extend subsidies for coal plants under the reform, and a push to expand state aid for other power plants. EU energy ministers meeting in Luxembourg ended talks…
LONDON (Reuters) – British lawmakers on Monday voted to approve a report that recommended sanctioning former prime minister Boris Johnson for deliberately misleading parliament over rule-breaking parties held during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lawmakers in the House of Commons voted by 354 to 7 to endorse the privileges committee’s report, which concluded that the former leader…
By Karolina Tagaris MALAKASA, Greece (Reuters) -The suspected smugglers of scores of migrants who drowned in a Mediterranean Sea shipwreck last week are expected to face manslaughter charges in a Greek court this week, while Pakistan detained a dozen suspects over the disaster. Greece recovered three more bodies on Monday, bringing the confirmed toll to…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers will urge the CEOs of Ford Motor and General Motors to shrink reliance on China auto parts, particularly electric vehicle batteries, sources told Reuters on Monday. Four lawmakers who are part of the House of Representatives China Select Committee will travel to Detroit Tuesday…
(Reuters) -One of Russia’s top spymasters said on Monday he hoped that the U.N. nuclear watchdog and the European Union would look into Ukrainian nuclear activity that he said might signal Kyiv was working on a “dirty bomb”. Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service, did not provide documentary evidence to back…
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – U.S. climate envoy John Kerry met Pope Francis on Monday, the first official to have a private audience with him since his discharge from hospital, and told Reuters that he found the pontiff “in great spirits and in great form”. Francis, 86, left Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Friday, nine days after…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s armed forces only have around 20,000 high explosive artillery shells left, magazine Der Spiegel wrote on Monday citing confidential defence ministry papers prepared to convince the budget committee of the need for urgent purchases. Countries like Germany have rushed to send supplies of 155m artillery rounds used by howitzers to Ukraine…
By John Irish and Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) – France has banned an upcoming Iranian opposition rally over the risk of an attack, according to a letter sent to the organisers and seen by Reuters, after the release of an Iranian diplomat convicted of masterminding a plot to bomb the group in 2018. The ban…
