MOSCOW, Oct 28 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin told African leaders on Wednesday that Russia was their best partner, accusing what he cast as a colonial West of still trying to exploit the continent’s resources and using debt to hold back development. Putin was speaking at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, a two-day event…
By Fedja Grulovic , Alex Fraser , Bart Biesemans and Fatos Bytyci BELGRADE/MILAN/BRUSSELS/TIRANA, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Maya Gourdel, a 19-year-old student in Brussels, sits at a desk writing slogans against those running her country: “If we burn, you burn with us!” The slogan, taken from the 2012 film “The Hunger Games” that has been…
Oct 24 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump is expected to announce on Saturday that Volkswagen’s premium subsidiary Audi plans to build a new assembly plant in Georgia that will produce 200,000 SUVs annually, a government official told Reuters. Trump, who has urged automakers to build more vehicles in the United States and imposed significant…
BEIJING, Oct 21 (Reuters) – China’s government said on Wednesday that its coast guard was “safeguarding order” around a tiny and strategically located Taiwan-controlled atoll at the top end of the South China Sea where Taipei fears Beijing is trying to enforce jurisdiction. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, said last…
PRAGUE, Oct 24 (Reuters) – In a rare overnight vote, the Czech ruling coalition pushed public media funding changes through a first parliamentary hurdle despite criticism that they could weaken broadcaster independence. The populist government of billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis, backed by the far-right SPD party, has frequently criticised public and private media coverage…
Oct 17 (Reuters) – Ukraine on Saturday rejected Russia’s claim to have captured more than 1,800 square km (695 square miles) of territory and nearly 100 settlements, including the eastern town of Dobropillia, since September 1. On Friday, the chief of Russia’s General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, told President Vladimir Putin that Russian forces had captured 92…
Oct 15 (Reuters) – The editor-in-chief of Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta was taken in for questioning by investigators in Moscow on Thursday, the outlet said, after authorities searched his home. The TASS state news agency, citing law enforcement sources, said Sergei Sokolov was being questioned in a case regarding the “unlawful use of personal…
CEUTA, Spain, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Spain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia visited Ceuta’s Muslim cemetery on Tuesday where most of more than 100 migrants who died in July’s mass crossing into the North African enclave from Morocco were buried. The visit, the first by Spain’s head of state since 2007 and in Felipe’s 12-year reign,…
Oct 13 (Reuters) – Argentina’s government said on Tuesday it had filed a request for provisional measures with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea seeking to halt British-authorized hydrocarbon activity near the Falkland Islands. The request aims to prevent the United Kingdom from exploiting hydrocarbon resources on the continental shelf of the Northern…
ROME, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Pope Leo renewed his condemnation of the death penalty on Saturday, saying it violates the sanctity of human life and deprives people of the chance of redemption, days after the Pentagon said it planned to livestream an execution. The US military will livestream the upcoming firing squad execution of a gunman…