BAMBOLIM, India, (Reuters) – The Group of 20 (G20) major economies meeting in India failed yesterday to reach consensus on phasing down fossil fuels following objections by some producer nations.
ACCRA, (Reuters) – Ghana’s sanitation minister resigned yesterday over reports staff found and stole stashes of local and foreign money from her home, she said in a letter to the president in which she denied any wrongdoing.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia’s government halted a music festival in the capital Kuala Lumpur yesterday, a day after the frontman of British pop rock band The 1975 kissed a male bandmate onstage and criticised the country’s anti-LGBT laws.
BAMBOLIM, India, (Reuters) – The Group of 20 (G20) major economies meeting in India failed today to reach consensus on phasing down fossil fuels following objections by some producer nations.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Women in India’s northeastern state of Manipur attacked the house of the main suspect in a sexual assault case that has enraged the nation, state police said yesterday.
(Reuters) – British foreign minister James Cleverly postponed a planned trip to Beijing this month after China’s foreign minister’s near-month-long absence from public view, Bloomberg News reported yesterday.
BATAGAI, Russia, (Reuters) – Stunning drone footage has revealed details of the Batagaika crater, a one kilometre long gash in Russia’s Far East that forms the world’s biggest permafrost crater.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian investigators yesterday detained prominent Russian nationalist Igor Girkin, who had publicly accused President Vladimir Putin and the army top brass of not prosecuting the war in Ukraine harshly or effectively enough.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Women in India’s northeastern state of Manipur attacked the house of the main suspect in a sexual assault case that has enraged the nation, police said today.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India yesterday ordered a halt to its largest rice export category in a move that will roughly halve shipments by the world’s largest exporter of the grain, triggering fears of further inflation on global food markets.
BISSAU, (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s government has ordered the suspension of teachers’ salaries to weed out fraudulent claims on the payroll from fictitious workers, according to a statement released yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he is willing to take a hard line with airlines when necessary as the Biden administration vows a sweeping upgrade in passenger consumer protections.
MYKOLAIV/NEAR KUPIANSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia jolted world grain markets with an escalation in the Black Sea, mounting a third straight night of air strikes on Ukrainian ports and issuing a threat against Ukraine-bound vessels to which Kyiv responded in kind.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Beijing-linked hackers accessed U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns’ email account in an espionage operation thought to have compromised at least hundreds of thousands of individual U.S.
BAGHDAD/STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador yesterday in protest at a planned burning of the Koran in Stockholm that had prompted hundreds of protesters to storm and set alight the Swedish embassy in Baghdad.
MYKOLAIV/NEAR KUPIANSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia destroyed homes and damaged the Chinese consulate in Odesa today in a third straight night of air strikes on Ukrainian ports, and issued a threat against Ukraine-bound vessels in the Black Sea.
BEIJING/JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Days before a conference of foreign ministers this month, China told host Indonesia it was switching its representative due to “unexpected circumstances”, prompting a scramble in Jakarta to resize the traditional gift of a shirt for attendees.
BAGHDAD/STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in central Baghdad in the early hours of today, scaling its walls and setting it on fire in protest against the expected burning of a Koran in Sweden.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – In the 1991 film “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” a malevolent time-traveling and shape-shifting android called T-1000 that was made of liquid metal demonstrated a unique quality.
ROME/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Italy put 23 cities on red alert as temperatures could reach 46 Celsius (114 Fahrenheit) today, one of the global hotspots as a wave of extreme heat, wildfires and flooding wreak havoc from the United States to China.
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