Published by Reuters UK By Max Hunder and Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces intensified their assault on the largest city held by Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region in the east on Sunday as Kyiv said it was hopeful longer-range weapons it desperately needs from Western allies could soon arrive. Slow, solid Russian gains
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Published by Reuters UK By Humeyra Pamuk, Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will not block China from growing its economy, but wants it to adhere to international rules, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday in a long-awaited speech on U.S. strategy to address China’s rise as a great
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Published by Reuters By Stella Qiu and Kevin Buckland BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares on Friday extended overnight global gains thanks to strong results from regional tech firms and U.S. retailers, while investors also took comfort from Federal Reserve minutes suggesting it could pause its rapid rate hikes later this year. The swing in sentiment
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Published by Reuters By Natalia Zinets and Jonathan Landay KYIV/SLATYNE, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian forces intensified their offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region using artillery, rocket-launchers and aircraft to damage defences around Donetsk, Ukraine’s general staff said on Friday. “The Russian enemy carried out massive artillery shelling of civilian infrastructure, including multiple rocket-launchers,” it said in
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Elon Musk thinks political attacks on him will “escalate” in the coming months. The 50-year-old billionaire – who is currently in the midst of trying to buy Twitter – has taken to the micro-blogging platform to predict that he’ll come under fire in the coming weeks and months. He wrote
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Published by Reuters UK By Lawrence White and Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) -Nationwide Building Society reported its annual profit nearly doubled on Friday, but warned rocketing inflation in Britain could dent the economy and lower house prices. The customer-owned lender reported a pretax profit for the year ended April 4 of 1.6 billion pounds ($2.00
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Published by Reuters UK By Devjyot Ghoshal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s prime minister has warned of a food shortage as the island nation battles a devastating economic crisis and vowed the government will buy enough fertiliser for the next planting season to boost harvests. A decision in April last year by
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Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, Four militants and their associate have been arrested by police in connection with a grenade blast in which an employee of a newly-opened wine shop was killed and three others were injured at Baramulla district on May 17, officials said on Thursday. SSP Baramulla Rayees Mohammad Bhat IPS said that the militant
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Published by Reuters UK By Max Hunder and Natalia Zinets KYIV/MARIUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) -Moscow said nearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Russian-held Mariupol as it shored up a key gain in the south, while the United States became the latest Western country to reopen its embassy in Kyiv. Ukraine has ordered its garrison
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Published by AFP Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – US President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Finland and Sweden on Thursday to discuss their NATO membership bids, while Ukraine said no military option was left to rescue the soldiers still inside a steel plant besieged by Russian forces. Moscow’s troops have been accused of widespread
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