WARSAW (Reuters) – A group of a hundred soldiers from the Russian Wagner group have moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday. Poland, a former Warsaw Pact member which has been a full member of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance since 1999,…
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -China hopes France can “stabilise the tone” of EU-China relations, vice-premier He Lifeng told a senior French minister in Beijing on Saturday, as European leaders debate how to “de-risk” but also cooperate with the world’s second-largest economy. He also told Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire that China is willing to…
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited Ukrainian troops near the eastern Bakhmut front line on Saturday. Photos published by Zelenskiy on Twitter showed him meeting troops and looking at maps in a dimly lit, windowless concrete-walled room. He praised Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces. “The performance of tasks for the sake of Ukraine by…
By Moussa Aksar and Boureima Balima NIAMEY (Reuters) -Leaders of a coup in Niger declared General Abdourahamane Tiani as the new head of state on Friday days after saying they had ousted President Mohamed Bazoum in the seventh military takeover in West and Central Africa in less than three years. African countries, Western powers and…
SYDNEY (Reuters) -The U.S. will help Australia produce guided multiple-launch rocket systems by 2025, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday, after the two nations’ top officials pledged to engage with China but also oppose it if needed. Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are in Queensland state for the annual Australia-U.S. Ministerial (AUSMIN)…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday called on Russia to abide by the laws of the sky and cease “irresponsible behaviour” when asked about Russian attacks on U.S. drones in Syria. The U.S. military said a MQ-9 drone over Syria was “severely” damaged when it was hit with a flare…
By Tim Reid and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) – Republican presidential rivals Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis appeared at the same event in the 2024 White House race for the first time on Friday, but even a day after Trump faced fresh criminal charges, it was the former president talking down DeSantis rather than the other…
By David Lawder and Jorgelina do Rosario WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it has reached a staff-level agreement with Argentina to unlock about $7.5 billion and complete the fifth and sixth reviews of the struggling country’s $44 billion loan program. The agreement, which still needs IMF Executive Board approval, eases some…
(Corrects spelling of ‘conservative’ in paragraph 8) By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysia may not go through with a plan to take legal action against Facebook parent Meta Platforms following “positive” engagement with the firm on tackling harmful content on the social media platform, communications minister Fahmi Fadzil said in an interview on Friday….
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile’s state miner, Codelco, on Friday cut its copper output forecast for 2023 and said it expects more halts in production during the second half of the year, following months of declines. The miner expects to have a yearly production of between 1.31 million-1.35 million metric tons from 1.35 million-1.45 million tons previously…
