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IMF names resident representative for Lebanon to continue reform talks
LONDON (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has picked a resident representative for Lebanon, the multilateral lender's spokesman Gerry Rice said on Thursday. Rice, who did not specify who...
Jun 09, 2022
Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Tianpeng, China – USGS
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck Tianpeng region in China on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was at a depth of 19.9 km (12.37 miles), and was centred about 2...
Jun 09, 2022
Cleanup crews trap plastic on Guatemalan river to protect ocean
By Luis Echeverria RIO LAS VACAS, Guatemala (Reuters) - Plastic bottles and mounds of trash lap onto the shores of a once pristine beach in a Honduran fishing village. It comes from neighboring Guatem...
Jun 09, 2022
Tunisian judges threaten to strike for a second week over sackings
TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisian judges will extend their strike into a second week if President Kais Saied does not cancel a decree firing dozens of them, the judges' association said on Thursday. Saied dis...
Jun 09, 2022
Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland elected to U.N. Security Council
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly elected Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday for two-year term starting on Jan. 1, ...
Jun 09, 2022
UK “deeply concerned” by sentencing of Brits by Russia-backed court, PM’s spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is deeply concerned by the death sentences passed down to two British men by a court of the Russian-backed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and will work to try to secure the...
Jun 09, 2022
Russia says West risks ‘direct military clash’ over cyber attacks
(Reuters) - Russia warned the West on Thursday that cyber attacks against its infrastructure risked leading to direct military confrontation, and that attempts to challenge Moscow in the cyber sphere ...
Jun 09, 2022
Putin says no Iron Curtain will close off Russia’s economy
LONDON (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that no Iron Curtain would fall over the Russian economy despite the sanctions imposed by the West because Moscow would not close itself of...
Jun 09, 2022
Swiss lower house backs power to independently impose sanctions
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's lower house on Thursday backed legal changes that will allow the usually neutral country to impose sanctions independently of other nations or international groups on ...
Jun 09, 2022
Death toll in Nigeria church massacre rises to 40 – governor
ABUJA (Reuters) - Forty people were killed in a massacre at a Catholic church in Nigeria's Ondo State on Sunday and 61 survivors are still being treated in hospital, the state governor said on Thursda...
Jun 09, 2022
