- 18 November, 2024
Foreign Affairs, Geopolitics & National SecurityUpdated
Bill to help Taiwan regain WHO status passes Congress, sent to Biden for signature
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation on Wednesday calling on the State Department to submit a plan to help Taiwan regain its observer…
Stop relying on Russia, Ukraine warns Europe after gas shutoff
By Marek Strzelecki, Tsvetelia Tsolova and Pavel Polityuk WARSAW/SOFIA/KYIV (Reuters) - Europe should stop depending on Russia for trade after Moscow halted gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland for not…
Europe decries ‘blackmail’ as Russia cuts gas to Poland, Bulgaria
By Tsvetelia Tsolova and Anna Koper SOFIA/WARSAW (Reuters) - Russia's Gazprom cut Poland and Bulgaria off from its gas on Wednesday for refusing to pay in roubles, and threatened to…
UN tourism body suspends Russia’s membership, Moscow says it quits
MADRID (Reuters) -The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) voted to suspend Russia's membership over its invasion of Ukraine with immediate effect on Wednesday in a largely symbolic move, shortly…
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi handed five-year jail term for graft
(Reuters) -A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on Wednesday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption…
Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
(Reuters) - Russia halted gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland for rejecting its demand for payment in roubles, taking direct aim at European economies in its toughest retaliation so far…
Ukraine president says Indonesian leader invited him to G20 summit
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday on Twitter that his Indonesian counterpart had invited him to attend the summit of Group of 20 (G20) major economies…
Blinken to detail U.S. national strategy for China in coming weeks
By Patricia Zengerle and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday he will address in the coming weeks a long-awaited national security strategy to…
Kyiv pulls down Soviet-era monument symbolising Russian-Ukrainian friendship
By Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday dismantled a huge Soviet-era monument in the centre of Kyiv meant to symbolise friendship between Russia and Ukraine, a response to…
Solomon Islands Pact with China Impacts Australian Elections
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - For the first time in decades, the actions of a foreign state have taken centre stage in an Australian election campaign, analysts said, as…
By PTI and Chanakya Forum
Beijing to test 20 million for COVID in bid to avert Shanghai lockdown misery
By Eduardo Baptista and Brenda Goh BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Three-quarters of Beijing's 22 million people lined up for COVID-19 tests on Tuesday as authorities in the Chinese capital raced to…
Female suicide bomber kills three Chinese teachers and Pakistani at Karachi university
By Akhtar Soomro and Asif Shahzad KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -A suspected female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers in Karachi on Tuesday, police and officials said, drawing strong condemnation from…
