By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -A gaping hole punched in Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam that unleashed a wall of floodwater means that the canal which has traditionally met most of Crimea’s water needs is receiving drastically less water, the Kremlin warned on Tuesday. Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the breach at the Russian-controlled…
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union countries are expected this week to agree on how to share out the responsibility of hosting refugees and migrants, a top EU official said on Tuesday of what would mark a breakthrough after years of bitter feuds within the bloc. The EU’s migration chief spoke ahead of talks…
(Reuters) – Flooding from torrential rains in Haiti has left at least 42 people dead over the past couple days and dozens more missing and injured, officials said on Monday. Over 13,600 homes are also listed as flooded. The civil protection agency said on Twitter on Monday the death toll had risen since Sunday night…
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Neither President Joe Biden’s Democrats nor Republicans in Congress emerged as a clear winner in the battle to raise the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The survey, conducted after Congress passed a bipartisan deal to raise the borrowing limit, found that 50% of Americans…
By Abhirup Roy, Hyunjoo Jin and Isla Binnie SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co’s decision to allow customers to use Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging network has sent ripples through the industry, raising questions about a national U.S. charging standard as well as the fate of charging startups that are struggling. The deal, announced last month,…
By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – United Nations climate talks in Germany kicked off on Monday without an agreed final agenda for technical discussions, a senior negotiator said, clouding optimism that the 10-day meeting would result in a clear programme for the COP28 conference in Dubai. The Bonn Climate Change Conference, designed to prepare decisions…
LONDON (Reuters) – Weak growth across Britain’s construction sector picked up modestly in May, despite an increasingly severe downturn in house-building activity prompted by rising interest rates, a survey showed on Tuesday. The S&P Global/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 51.6 from 51.1 in April. A Reuters poll of economists had pointed…
By Laurie Chen and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – Meetings between senior U.S. and Chinese officials in China this week struck an upbeat chord, with both sides agreeing to maintain communication lines, even as Beijing remains leery of more “provocative” U.S. moves and open clashes are still a risk. Statements from Washington and Beijing on…
By Andrea Shalal and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday recent dangerous encounters between U.S. and Chinese forces in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea reflect a growing aggressiveness by Beijing’s military that raises the risk of an error in which “somebody gets hurt.” Washington’s sharply worded warning followed…
By Valentyn Origenko KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched a new wave of overnight air strikes on Kyiv, with officials at the Ukrainian capital saying that air defence systems downed more than 20 cruise missiles on their approach. “All were shot down, there were no hits,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said on the…
