By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) – French insect-based ingredients maker Ynsect will refocus its strategy on high-margin markets like pet food, shut a production plant and cut jobs after raising 160 million euros ($177 million) from investors, its chief executive said. The company, which is in talks for additional funding, will use the…
By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The standoff over raising the U.S. federal government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling illustrates the stakes of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s lengthy absence from Washington, fellow Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar said on Sunday. Feinstein, 89, faced calls from some fellow Democrats last week to resign her seat after being sidelined…
WARSAW (Reuters) -Unilateral action on trade by European Union member states is unacceptable, the bloc’s executive said on Sunday, after Poland and Hungary announced bans on grain and other food imports from Ukraine to protect their local agricultural sectors. After Russia’s invasion blocked some Black Sea ports, large quantities of Ukrainian grain, which is cheaper…
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday rejected as offensive and unfounded what he called insinuations by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who went missing 40 years ago about one of his predecessors as pontiff, Saint John Paul II. Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican usher, failed to return…
By David Ljunggren (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin met Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu in Moscow on Sunday and both men hailed military cooperation between the two nations, which have declared a “no limits” partnership. Chinese President Xi Jinping met Putin in Moscow last month. Russia and China have moved to further strengthen their economic,…
By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A fundraising group supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s potential run for U.S. president on Sunday launched its first attacks on leading rival Donald Trump, questioning the former president’s allegiance to his fellow Republicans. “Trump should fight Democrats, not lie about Governor DeSantis,” the ad stated. “What happened to Donald…
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday again proposed establishing a group of countries not involved with the Russia-Ukraine war to broker peace, saying he had discussed the matter with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping earlier this week. “I think we need to sit on a table and say, ‘that’s…
By Humeyra Pamuk and Sakura Murakami KARUIZAWA, Japan (Reuters) -The relationship between China and Europe will be determined by Beijing’s behaviour, including what happens with Taiwan, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Sunday. The comments from EU High Representative Josep Borrell, in a remote address at the start of the meeting of the…
By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) -A former lawmaker in India’s parliament, convicted of kidnapping, was shot dead along with his brother while police were escorting them for a medical check-up in a slaying caught on live television on Saturday. The dramatic footage of the men being killed was shared across broadcast channels and social…
(Reuters) -Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez apologised in an interview published on Sunday to victims of sexual abuse over a sexual violence law that included a loophole enabling at least 978 imprisoned offenders to get their sentences reduced or ended early. The “Only Yes Is Yes” law, which arose partly as a result of public…
