(Reuters) – Russia will not inform the U.S. about the number of nuclear warheads it is stationing in Belarus or tests of its nuclear-capable Poseidon torpedo, the Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Friday. Moscow and Minsk say Belarus has already begun receiving the Russian tactical, or short-range, nuclear…
KYIV (Reuters) – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will provide a 50-million-euro ($54 million) loan to one of Ukraine’s biggest banks, state-owned Ukreximbank, under an agreement signed on Friday. Matteo Patrone, EBRD’s Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, said in a statement that the funding would help keep finance flowing to…
By John Irish and Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) -Multilateral development banks like the World Bank are expected to find $200 billion in extra firepower for low-income economies by taking on more risk, a move that may require wealthy nations to inject more cash, world leaders said on Friday. The leaders, gathered at a summit in…
MADRID (Reuters) – Shop assistants at Swedish fashion retailer H&M in Spain extended a three-day strike planned in late June to demand pay raises into two more days in early July, unions said on Friday. The strikes, called by the CCOO and UGT trade unions, were scheduled for June 20, 22 and 26 and workers…
By Allison Lampert and Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) – Jean Blondin usually attends the world’s largest air show to find new contracts. This year, he has made the journey from Canada to look for something equally precious – workers. Labour shortages are an urgent topic at this week’s Paris Airshow, with gaps in the workforce…
(Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday said the European Union’s latest proposal for a trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur made reaching an agreement impossible as it included a “threat” to Brazil. The Brazilian leader was referring to the EU’s addendum to the deal attaching sustainability and climate change commitments…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Just as world stock prices raced ahead this month, broader business activity appeared to be stalling again. Surprisingly soft readings from flash business surveys for June show that in the euro zone at least overall factory and service sector growth almost…
By Napat Wesshasartar BANGKOK (Reuters) – Climate change might have stimulated a plankton bloom that caused thousands of dead fish to wash up along a 3- to 4-kilometre stretch of beach in Thailand’s southern Chumphon province, an expert said. Thon Thamrongnawasawat, deputy dean of the Faculty of Fisheries at Kasetsart University, attributed the fish deaths…
(Reuters) -Former U.S. Representative Will Hurd on Thursday announced he would run for president, joining a growing list of Republicans seeking to unseat Democratic President Joe Biden in the November 2024 election. Here are some of the candidates in both the Democratic and Republican parties. REPUBLICAN PARTY DONALD TRUMP Trump, 77, announced his election campaign…
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s armed forces have halted a Russian offensive towards the cities of Kupiansk and Lyman in the east of the country, and are advancing in the south, a senior Ukrainian defence official said on Friday. “We had very fierce battles in the Kupiansk and Lyman directions, but our soldiers stopped the enemy…
