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EU has frozen 13.8 billion euros of Russian assets over Ukraine war, official says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has so far frozen 13.8 billion euros ($13.83 billion) worth of assets held by Russian oligarchs, other individuals and entities sanctioned for Moscow's war agai...
Jul 12, 2022
Ukraine receives $1.7 billion in new financial assistance – PM
KYIV (Reuters) - Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal thanked the United States on Tuesday for its "incredible support" after Ukraine received a further $1.7-billion in international financial assistance. Shm...
Jul 12, 2022
China’s Henan bank customers face harassment, job loss over protests
By Engen Tham and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A woman who was injured on Sunday when a protest by roughly 1,000 bank customers in central China was violently broken up by security personn...
Jul 12, 2022
Death toll from collapsed Donbas apartment block rises to 35 -emergency services
KYIV (Reuters) - The death toll under a collapsed apartment block in the Donetsk region town of Chasiv Yar climbed to 35 on Tuesday, with rescue work still not over four days after the building was hi...
Jul 12, 2022
UK leadership candidate Sunak: we can’t promise lower taxes and more spending
LONDON (Reuters) - Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday it was not credible to promise both lower taxes and higher public spending, speaking at a launch event for his campaign t...
Jul 12, 2022
London’s Heathrow airport caps departing passengers at 100,000 a day
LONDON (Reuters) -London's Heathrow said it would cap the number of departing passengers at 100,000 a day this summer to try to limit traveller disruption as it struggles to cope with a rebound in dem...
Jul 12, 2022
Thailand on verge of using voluntary chemical castration for sex offenders
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is close to introducing chemical castration as a means of tackling sex crime after lawmakers approved a bill that will give some offenders the right to choose the procedur...
Jul 12, 2022
Poland tables legislation to boost gas security as energy crisis flares
WARSAW (Reuters) - The Polish cabinet is discussing loosening gas trading rules, extending tariff protection for consumers, and contingency planning for grid operators to allow for a swift reaction if...
Jul 12, 2022
UK’s Rishi Sunak endorsed by deputy PM Raab and rival Shapps
LONDON (Reuters) - Rishi Sunak's campaign to be Britain's next prime minister was endorsed on Tuesday by Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab and transport minister Grant Shapps, who ditched his own lea...
Jul 12, 2022
Chinese scientists develop robot fish that gobble up microplastics
BEIJING (Reuters) - Robot fish that "eat" microplastics may one day help to clean up the world's polluted oceans, says a team of Chinese scientists from Sichuan University in southwest China. Soft to ...
Jul 12, 2022
