By Adnan Abidi and Gabrielle Fonseca Johnson NEW DELHI (Reuters) – People living near a river running through India’s capital began returning to their homes on Monday as floodwaters receded five days after the Yamuna overflowed into the city. The Yamuna River rose to its highest in 45 years last week following unusually heavy rainfall…
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to crack down on Monday against threatened no-shows for military reserve duty by opponents of his judicial overhaul plan, saying such actions were anti-democratic and risked emboldening the country’s foes. With the religious-nationalist coalition set to ratify a key reform before parliament goes…
(This July 16 story has been corrected to fix David Sandalow’s quote to say ‘climate diplomacy,’ not ‘diplomacy,’ in paragraph 6) By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and China will look to revive efforts to combat global warming this week, in bilateral meetings that observers hope will raise the bar on ambitions…
By Aftab Ahmed GANDHINAGAR, India (Reuters) -The United States is working with India to develop ways to lower the cost of capital and increase private investment to fast-track India’s energy transition, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Monday. After a bi-lateral meeting with India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the sidelines of a G20…
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces have taken back nearly 18 square km (7 square miles) of territory in the east and the south in the past week in their counteroffensive against Russian forces, a senior defence official said on Monday. The advances brought the territory recaptured so far during the counteroffensive to more than 210…
By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is confident it will have the best equipped army division amongst European NATO allies in 2025, Army Chief Alfons Mais told Reuters, as countries are scrambling to gear up their troops in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At the moment, Berlin does not have a single…
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Globally agreed rules leave crypto firms with no option but to introduce basic safeguards to prevent the blow-ups seen at FTX exchange and other crypto casualties, the G20’s Financial Stability Board said on Monday. The FSB published on Monday final recommendations requested by the G20 on supervising firms that…
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday blamed authorities’ failure to follow disaster response rules as the death toll from days of torrential rain rose to 40, including a dozen people found dead in a submerged underpass. Deluges have pummelled central and southern regions since Thursday as the rainy…
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Swiss watchmaker Swatch Group has filed a lawsuit against the Malaysian government for confiscating rainbow-coloured watches that celebrate LGBT rights, in an act the company says has damaged its reputation. Homosexuality is a crime in Muslim-majority Malaysia, and rights groups have warned of growing intolerance against the country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender…
By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Two senior lawmakers from Singapore’s ruling party have resigned over their “inappropriate relationship”, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday, the latest high-profile scandal in a city-state otherwise known for its political stability. Lee said the resignations of house speaker Tan Chuan-Jin and lawmaker, Cheng Li Hui, were…
