MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancelled part of a high-speed rail project today, ending weeks of uncertainty and provoking anger in his Conservative Party as he sought to reinvent his premiership as one of tough decisions and action.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of clusters of atoms known as quantum dots, now used to create colour in flat screens, light emitting diode (LED) lamps and devices that help surgeons see blood vessels in tumours.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A handful of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday ousted Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy, as party infighting plunged Congress into further chaos just days after it narrowly averted a government shutdown.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Switzerland and the United States have donated $8.4 million to Brazil’s Amazon Fund to help stop deforestation and preserve the world’s largest tropical rainforest, the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) that manages the fund said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The failure of Congress to reauthorize the main U.S.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial yesterday imposed a gag order – promising sanctions for any violations – on the former U.S.
(Reuters) – India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by Oct.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan yesterday ordered all illegal immigrants to leave the country or face expulsion after revealing that 14 of 24 suicide bombings in the South Asian nation this year were carried out by Afghans.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India has invited French oil major TotalEnergies TTEF.PA
DAKAR, (Reuters) – Islamist militants in Mali began a blockade of Timbuktu by cutting road access in August and then shut off river and air routes in an offensive that has put the city once again on the frontline of a jihadist insurgency.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating ultra-short pulses of light that can give a snapshot of changes within atoms, potentially leading to better detection of disease.
(Reuters) – India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by Oct.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council yesterday authorized a foreign security mission to Haiti, a year after the Caribbean country asked for help to fight violent gangs that have largely overrun its capital Port-au-Prince.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A defiant Donald Trump attacked New York’s attorney general and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial as it began yesterday, with a state lawyer accusing the former president of generating more than $100 million by lying about his real estate empire.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A former Nigerian oil minister appeared in court in London yesterday charged with receiving bribes in the form of cash, luxury goods, flights on private jets and the use of high-end properties in Britain in return for awarding oil contracts.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Donald Trump sat in a Manhattan courtroom today and listened to a New York state lawyer accuse him of generating more than $1 billion by lying about his real estate empire, claims the former president called a “scam.”
ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber said today that more than 20 oil and gas companies were rallying around his calls to curb carbon emissions ahead of a United Nations summit on climate change.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman from Hungary and the United States respectively won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries enabling the development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, the award-giving body said on Monday.
MANCHESTER (Reuters) – There are no immediate plans to deploy military instructors to Ukraine, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday, rowing back from comments by his defence minister who had suggested troops could carry out training in the country.
TORONTO (Reuters) – Two people were found dead in a grizzly bear attack in Alberta’s Banff National Park, Parks Canada said in a statement.
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