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Taiwan president oversees drills on warship, lauds determination for defence
By Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang SUAO, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen boarded a naval warship on Tuesday for only the second time in her six years in office, where she lauded the mili...
Jul 26, 2022
Latest Russian gas cuts ‘politically motivated’, EU energy chief says
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russian gas giant Gazprom's announcement that it will further slash deliveries to Europe this week is politically motivated, European Union energy policy chief Kadr...
Jul 26, 2022
Exclusive-Glaciers vanishing at record rate in Alps following heatwaves
By Emma Farge and Gloria Dickie MORTERATSCH GLACIER, Switzerland (Reuters) - From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would never guess he was carry...
Jul 26, 2022
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka woos foreign oil firms amid fuel shortages
(Reuters) - Crisis-hit Sri Lanka invited on Tuesday expressions of interest from oil companies in petroleum-producing nations seeking to import and sell petroleum products as the Indian Ocean island o...
Jul 26, 2022
Russian forces strike Mykolaiv port infrastructure – mayor
KYIV (Reuters) - Russian forces have struck port infrastructure in Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevich said on Tuesday. "A massive missile strike was launched on the south of...
Jul 26, 2022
Japanese Emperor Emeritus diagnosed with heart failure but recovering – media
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito, father of the current Emperor, has received a diagnosis of heart failure, media said on Tuesday, but is taking medication and the condition is impro...
Jul 26, 2022
Australia’s COVID hospital admissions, deaths rise as variant surges
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hospital admissions for COVID-19 in Australia have reached a new high for a second straight day, data showed on Tuesday, while the daily death toll rose to its second-highest as an ...
Jul 25, 2022
In Brazil, Biden’s defense chief to call on region’s militaries to respect democracy
By Phil Stewart BRASILIA (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, is expected to call on militaries to respect democracy at an Americas-wide defense gathering this week ...
Jul 25, 2022
India probes spurious liquor incident that killed 26
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Authorities in India's western state of Gujarat are investigating an incident in which at least 26 people died and more than 30 were admitted to hospital after drinking sp...
Jul 25, 2022
China’s Xi to hold talks with Indonesia’s Jokowi in rare visit
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to hold in-person talks in Beijing with his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo on Tuesday, in a rare visit to COVID-wary China by a foreign...
Jul 25, 2022
