By Lidia Kelly and Andrew Osborn (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said his country has started taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons, some of which he said were three times more powerful than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The deployment is Moscow’s first move of…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Most G20 member nations are of the view that banking systems and regulations in their countries are steady, India’s chief economic advisor said on Wednesday. “Most country members who spoke expressed the view or the hope that their individual country regulations and banking systems were sound, and they don’t anticipate any…
By Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Climate activists on Wednesday targeted two of the globe’s biggest banks – Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan – for their fossil fuel investment policies with separate protests in Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt. Greenpeace activists scaled Deutsche Bank’s headquarters shortly after dawn and strung up a large yellow banner to protest…
By David Lawder KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) – World Bank President Ajay Banga told Reuters that he will “push” the lender’s balance sheet hard to help fight climate change and other crises, but this may only yield tens of billions of dollars in additional annual lending, not the hundreds of billions hoped for by some. Banga…
By Katherine Masters NEW YORK (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers planned to introduce a bill on Wednesday to eliminate a tariff exemption widely used by e-commerce sellers to send orders from China to U.S. shoppers, one of the sponsors said. The exception, known as the de minimis rule, exempts imports valued at…
By Tim Reid, Nathan Layne and Gram Slattery (Reuters) -For decades U.S. Republicans have proudly claimed to be the party of law and order. But the indictment of former President Donald Trump by federal prosecutors over the alleged mishandling of classified documents has led to nearly all of his Republican rivals for the party’s White…
By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – The death toll from an overloaded boat that capsized in a remote part of Nigeria’s north central region has risen to more than 100, police and officials said on Wednesday, in one of the worst such disasters in recent years. The wooden boat was ferrying people to Kwara…
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin in March announced a plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Moscow’s first move of such warheads outside Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. What is known about the deployment? WHAT DID PUTIN SAY? Putin’s nuclear deployment is a message to…
By Andrew Goudsward and Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) -Donald Trump was accompanied by two of his attorneys on Tuesday when he appeared in a Miami courtroom and pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges. But his defense team is still evolving after at least three key members left in recent weeks. Attorneys Todd Blanche and…
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German Economy Ministry said on Wednesday it expects a moderate economic recovery over the further course of year, citing easing price pressures in the global energy market and an expected rebound in the global economy, among other factors. An “economic” recession in the sense of a more sustained downturn is not…
