By Elizabeth Piper and Vlad Smilianets OUTSKIRTS OF KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) -Some residents left the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson in cars and buses on Friday, and others stocked up on groceries, before a weekend curfew imposed as Kyiv prepares for a counter-offensive against Russian forces. The announcement of the unusually long curfew, due to…
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish media company Prisa said on Friday its second-largest shareholder Vivendi, had obtained the Spanish government’s go-ahead to raise its stake in the publisher of the El Pais newspaper. The Spanish government has given authorisation for Vivendi to exchange the Prisa convertible bonds it acquired in February into equity, Prisa said in…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Friday that he favored taking a long-term view of inflation and that the central bank could begin cutting interest rates. He added, however, that the government could not pre-empt any decision on changing the inflation targets set by the National Monetary Council consisting of himself,…
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s main unions and representatives of employers reached a preliminary agreement on Friday to grant a 4% wage increase across the board in 2023, El Pais newspaper reported, citing unidentified sources close to the negotiation. The agreement also included wage increases of 3% in 2024 and in 2025, the newspaper as well…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Residents of Moscow reported problems using satellite navigation in cars and on mobile devices this week, as the Kremlin stepped up security for the annual Victory Day parade on Red Square on May 9. Maps from the GPSJam website showed a “high level” of Global Positioning System interference across Moscow on Wednesday…
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The drones that crashed over the Kremlin earlier this week probably evaded an extensive number of defenses in and around Moscow, suggesting they might have been launched from inside Russia, U.S.-based drones experts said. Footage of the unmanned aircraft has sent governments and open source intelligence analysts on a…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s government is set to cut its forecasts for inflation while also predicting lower unemployment for longer in 2023/24 budget next week, a mix that it hopes will generate much-needed growth in real wages. Treasurer Jim Chalmers will now forecast unemployment of 3.5% for the June quarter of this year and 4.25%…
By Felix Light, Caleb Davis and Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Russia’s Wagner Group mercenary force, said in a dramatic announcement on Friday that his forces would pull out of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut that they have been trying to capture since last summer. Prigozhin said they would withdraw on May 10…
By Denis Balibouse BURE, Switzerland (Reuters) – In a sleepy village on the French border, Swiss soldiers rode down a dusty road on a Leopard 2 tank, an armoured vehicle that has spurred debate around Switzerland’s role in European defence. Switzerland has 134 Leopard 2 tanks in service, some of which were used in training…
(Reuters) – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has proposed new gun control measures after two mass shootings in which 17 people were killed, including at least eight children. Here are some details on how Serbia and other countries have responded to such mass shootings. SERBIA Vucic proposed a moratorium on gun permits regardless of weapon type…
