By Felix Light and Filipp Lebedev TBILISI (Reuters) – The Wagner Group mercenaries who seized the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Saturday in a failed mutiny included at least three convicted criminals, a Reuters review of facial recognition software, court records and social media showed. Almost all of the fighters who took part in the…
By David Shepardson (Reuters) -A New York City plan to charge a daily toll on vehicles entering or remaining in the central business district got a boost on Monday from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which said the city had adequately assessed how the congestion charge would help the environment. The department’s Federal Highway Administration…
By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Solid majorities of Americans support providing weaponry to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia and believe that such aid demonstrates to China and other U.S. rivals a will to protect U.S. interests and allies, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey. The two-day poll that was concluded on Tuesday charted a…
By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is examining how the Wagner Group’s short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military establishment might affect the mercenaries’ operations in the Middle East and Africa, officials said. Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin startled the world by leading an armed revolt on Saturday that brought his fighters from the…
(Reuters) -Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin flew into exile in Belarus on Tuesday under a deal that ended a brief mutiny by his fighters, as President Vladimir Putin praised his armed forces for averting a civil war. A plane linked to Prigozhin was shown on a flight tracking service taking off from the southern Russian…
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) -Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is usually the one thanking Russia’s Vladimir Putin or asking him for a favour – be it a loan, cheap gas, help in navigating protests or tactical nuclear weapons. This time, the shoe is on the other foot. While the full extent of Lukashenko’s role in…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The lower house of the Czech parliament gave strong backing to a defence treaty with NATO ally the United States on Wednesday in an initial reading, signalling the agreement would be ratified in the coming weeks or months. The Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) sets a framework for a potential U.S. military presence…
ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland expects its budget deficit to widen to 6.7 billion Swiss francs ($7.46 billion) next year due to extraordinary spending on Ukrainian refugees and the electricity sector, the government said on Wednesday. An anticipated 2.1% rise in receipts in 2024 is unlikely to keep pace with spending growth, the government said. The…
SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) – Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said last week’s rise in interest rates reflected a resilient economy and unexpectedly persistent inflation, sticking closely to his message after the BoE raised rates to 5% from 4.5%. “The cumulative data – both particularly on the labour market and on the inflation release we…
By Guy Faulconbridge, Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) -Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he persuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin not to “wipe out” mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, in response to what the Kremlin cast as a mutiny that pushed Russia towards civil war. Putin initially vowed to crush the mutiny, comparing it to the wartime turmoil…
