KYIV (Reuters) – Russia is targeting Ukrainian rail lines with airstrikes to disrupt the delivery of desperately needed U.S. weapons to the front and complicate military logistics, a Kyiv intelligence source said on Friday. The United States approved a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine this week and said the first deliveries should arrive in … Read more
ZURICH (Reuters) – A Swiss parliamentary committee late on Thursday voted to back a 5 billion Swiss franc ($5.5 billion) aid contribution for Ukraine as part of a broader package aimed at improving neutral Switzerland’s defense capabilities. Supported by lawmakers from centre-left and centre-right parties, the security committee of the upper house of parliament approved … Read more
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Several thousand Indigenous demonstrators marched chanting to drum beats on Thursday to the seat of power in Brazil’s capital to protest against the government’s failure to protect their ancestral lands. The annual event this year focused Indigenous anger over plans to build a railway to transport grain from farm states to Amazon … Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday the outright seizure of Russian assets is justifiable but is only one possibility, with assets instead able to serve as collateral for borrowing in the market to help Ukraine. “That’s an option that’s been discussed. The leaders have asked us to give them a … Read more
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s government submitted proposed rules to Congress on Wednesday to carry out a historic tax overhaul approved last year, a key element of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s strategy to foster growth in Latin America’s largest economy. The Finance Ministry said in a statement the bill contains most of the regulations … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, April. 23 (Xinhua) — Top U.S. electric automaker Tesla Inc. on Tuesday reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2024 with total revenue down 9 percent year over year to 21.3 billion U.S. dollars. The electric vehicle company reported total gross profit of 3.70 billion dollars in the quarter, a year-over-year … Read more
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Tuesday rejected the latest in a series of appeals by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich against his pre-trial detention on charges of espionage. Gershkovich, 32, became the first U.S. journalist arrested on spying charges in Russia since the Cold War when he was detained by the Federal … Read more
SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian court has ordered X to hide some posts commenting on the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney, deepening a war of words between the social media platform’s owner Elon Musk and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Australia’s federal court late on Monday granted the country’s cyber regulator, the eSafety commissioner, … Read more
BAKU (Reuters) – A prominent Azerbaijani economist and opposition politician who has been imprisoned since last July while awaiting trial was moved to house arrest on Monday. Gubad Ibadoghlu, head of the small Democracy and Welfare Party and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics at the time of his arrest, was detained … Read more
ADDIS ABABA, April 21 (Xinhua) — The African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat on Saturday evening offered his condolences over a boat disaster in the Central African Republic (CAR). “All of our solidarity is with the government and people of the CAR following the sinking of a boat on the Mpoko river which … Read more
