BAKU, (Reuters) – The COP29 climate summit ran into overtime yesterday, after a draft deal that proposed developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion in annual climate finance by 2035 drew criticism from all sides.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Senior White House officials met yesterday with telecommunications executives to discuss China’s “significant cyber espionage campaign targeting the sector,” the White House said.
(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Russ Vought, a key architect of “Project 2025,” the controversial conservative plan to overhaul the government, to be director of the U.S.
SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, (Reuters) – The governor of Texas ordered state agencies to stop investing in China and sell assets there as soon as possible, citing financial and security risks, a sign of rising U.S.-China
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence chief, as well as a Hamas leader, Ibrahim Al-Masri, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, the court said yesterday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – In June of 2020, a renewable energy company owned by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani won what it called the single largest solar development bid ever awarded: an agreement to supply 8 gigawatts of electricity to a state-owned power company.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s foreign minister met with the French ambassador to the nation yesterday over what the ministry branded as “unfriendly and inappropriate” comments by French President Emmanuel Macron as he left the G20 summit in Brazil.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain has barred Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos and Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash and has frozen their UK assets, the government announced on Thursday, in what it said was part of a new crackdown on ‘dirty money’.
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence chief, as well as a Hamas leader, Ibrahim Al-Masri, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, the court said today.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Russia fired an intercontinental ballistic missile during an attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro today, Kyiv’s air force said, in what would be the first use in war of a weapon designed to deliver long-distance nuclear strikes.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Gautam Adani, the billionaire chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, has been indicted in New York over his role in an alleged multibillion-dollar bribery and fraud scheme, U.S.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – The Israeli military bombed at least five crowded homes in northern Gaza last night with many casualties, health officials said, as troops deepened an incursion along the territory’s northern edge.
(Reuters) – A powerful storm clobbered Washington state yesterday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people while disrupting road travel and causing at least two deaths and two injuries.
BAKU, (Reuters) – Climate negotiators were warned yesterday that the “hardest part” was about to start in talks over how much money should be provided to developing countries to help them adapt to climate-fuelled weather disasters and transition to cleaner energy.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Gautam Adani, the billionaire chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, has been indicted in New York over his role in an alleged multibillion-dollar bribery and fraud scheme, U.S.