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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 […]

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

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

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

Published by Reuters UK (Reuters) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that there was no movement in peace talks with Ukraine, and that Kyiv was showing a total unwillingness to continue them. “Negotiations are not progressing and we note the complete unwillingness of Ukrainian negotiators to continue this process”, Peskov said. On Tuesday

Newscraving Desk: Srinagar: Anti-corruption branch of the CBI Srinagar has registered a case in the alleged embezzlement of public money at J&K Grameen Bank, Mirgund branch Quoting an official, news agency KNO reported that Ishtiyaq Ahmad Parray, then the branch head of the bank had sanctioned number of car loans worth crores in favour of

Newscraving Desk Srinagar, May 18 : A day after senior National Conference leader and former MLA Javed Rana dubbed Sajad Lone as a “former militant”, Peoples Conference on Wednesday said that NC president and former CM Dr. Farooq Abdullah’s “partnership” with Ikhwan and what he got them to do under the table would put a third

Published by Reuters By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Investigators looking into the crash of a China Eastern Airlines jet are examining whether it was due to intentional action on the flight deck, with no evidence found of a technical malfunction, two people briefed on the matter said. The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that

Published by Reuters By Edward McAllister and Cooper Inveen DAKAR/ACCRA (Reuters) – It’s noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside, an area reserved for COVID-19 shots is empty. A health worker leans back in his chair and scrolls on a

Published by Reuters By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The biggest factor that led to the collapse of the Afghan military in August last year was the U.S. decision to withdraw forces and contractors from Afghanistan through an agreement with the Taliban signed by the Trump administration and executed by the Biden administration, a U.S.