MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Flaring by the energy sector in Mexico hit record levels last year while the number of sites where gas is burnt off also rose despite government pledges to reduce such activity, research by a leading team of scientists showed.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada’s ruling Liberal Party and opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) have reached a surprise agreement that aims to keep the minority government in power until 2025, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka posted soldiers at hundreds of state-run gas stations yesterday to help distribute fuel after a sudden rise in prices of key commodities and accompanying shortages forced tens of thousands of people to queue for hours.
(Reuters) – A large tornado swept into New Orleans yesterday, shearing off roofs and trapping people, local media reported, a day after twisters destroyed homes and injured people elsewhere in the deep South.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Flaring by the energy sector in Mexico hit record levels last year while the number of sites where gas is burnt off also rose despite government pledges to reduce such activity, research by a leading team of scientists showed.
LVIV/KYIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia is pounding the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol into the “ashes of a dead land”, its local council said today, describing two more huge bombs that fell on the city that has been sealed off for weeks.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden has said only India among the Quad group of countries was “somewhat shaky” in acting against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, as India tries to balance its ties with Russia and the West.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka posted soldiers at hundreds of state-run gas stations today to help distribute fuel after a sudden rise in prices of key commodities and accompanying shortages forced tens of thousands of people to queue for hours.
MARIUPOL/LVIV/KYIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine said yesterday it would not obey ultimatums from Russia after Moscow demanded it stop defending besieged Mariupol, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are suffering through Russian bombardments laying waste to their city.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Russia’s false accusations that Kyiv has biological and chemical weapons illustrate that Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering using them himself in his war against Ukraine, U.S.
(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday that it would not be possible to negotiate an end to the war in his country without meeting Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.
GUANGZHOU, China, (Reuters) – A China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China yesterday after a sudden plunge from cruising altitude at about the time when it would normally start to descend ahead of its landing.
GIBRALTAR, (Reuters) – A luxurious super-yacht linked to the owner of Russia’s largest steel pipe maker, who is currently under British and European Union sanctions, docked in Gibraltar today and was then detained by the authorities.
MARIUPOL/LVIV/KYIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine said it would not accept ultimatums from Russia after Moscow demanded it stop defending besieged Mariupol, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are suffering through Russian bombardments laying waste to their city.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Shelling hit a Kyiv shopping centre late yesterday, killing at least eight people, wrecking nearby buildings and leaving smoking piles of rubble and the twisted wreckage of burned-out cars spread over several hundred metres.
LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine yesterday rejected Russian calls to surrender the port city of Mariupol, where residents are besieged with little food, water and power in a humanitarian crisis that is increasing pressure on European leaders to toughen sanctions on Moscow.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Biden administration has formally determined that violence committed against the Rohingya minority by Myanmar’s military amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity, U.S.