By Arpan Chaturvedi, Aditi Shah and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Go Airlines (India) Ltd was granted bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, bolstering the country’s fourth-largest carrier chances of getting back on its feet, but lessors are expected to mount legal challenges to repossess planes. The low-cost carrier, recently rebranded as Go First, was plunged…
(Reuters) -Britain is set to formally classify Russian mercenary force Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation as a way of increasing pressure on Russia, The Times newspaper reported on Tuesday. Wagner mercenaries have spearheaded Russia’s months-long assault on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. The Home Office has been building a case for two months and…
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The man who shot eight people to death at a Dallas-area shopping mall over the weekend harbored neo-Nazi sympathies but appeared to have targeted his victims at random, without regard for race, age or sex, Texas law enforcement officials said on Tuesday. Authorities also disclosed new details about the gunman’s background….
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – It was a rare day at the Vatican on Wednesday as two popes shared the limelight in St Peter’s Square – Pope Francis and His Holiness Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Tawadros, dressed in black robes, was the guest of honour at Francis’ general audience…
KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces are planning to evacuate more than 3,000 workers from the town that serves the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, resulting in a “catastrophic lack” of personnel, Ukraine’s state-owned Energoatom company said on Wednesday. Last week, the head of the U.N.’s nuclear power watchdog, Rafael Grossi, said the situation around the…
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s legislature passed a legal amendment on Wednesday to prevent foreign lawyers working on national security cases, a restriction critics say will undermine fair trials and the right of defendants to choose their lawyers. The amendment enshrines in law a ruling from China’s top lawmaking body last…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Leaders of seven of the world’s richest nations meet next week at the G7 summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima to discuss geopolitical, economic and climate issues as the war in Ukraine drags on and tensions rise between China and the United States. WHAT IS THE G7 SUMMIT? The G7 is…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Pratt & Whitney plans to oppose Go Airlines (India) Ltd’s push to enforce an arbitration ruling against the U.S. company for the supply of spare engines, a Delaware court filing showed. The airline, widely known as Go First, approached the Delaware court after it won an arbitration order in Singapore against…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is encouraging the World Health Organization to invite Taiwan as an observer at its annual meeting in Geneva from May 21 to 30, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday, in remarks that provoked criticism from China. China, which considers Taiwan to be one of its provinces, began blocking…
(Reuters) – Myanmar’s shadow government welcomes efforts by ASEAN chair Indonesia to kickstart peace talks in the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation but is deeply distrustful of the junta that took power in a 2021 coup, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) holding a summit in Indonesia have…
