BAKU (Reuters) – Azerbaijan as host of COP29 U.N. climate talks will this month launch a set of standards agreed by more than 100 countries to guide sustainable investment, the country’s central bank governor said on Friday. Climate finance taxonomies are needed to ensure investments are effective in reducing emissions, but investors are concerned the …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China and Slovakia said on Friday they would boost trade and investment ties and spoke of the need for peace in Ukraine during a visit to Beijing by Prime Minister Robert Fico to launch a new strategic partnership. Chinese President Xi Jinping said he would encourage “powerful” Chinese enterprises to invest in Slovakia, …
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By Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy blasted what he called his allies’ “zero” response to Russia’s deployment of North Korean troops for the war in Ukraine, saying on Thursday a weak reaction would encourage Russia’s Vladimir Putin to beef up the contingent. The Ukrainian leader, in an interview with …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China will extend visa-free entry to citizens from nine additional countries, including South Korea, Norway and Finland, the foreign ministry said on Friday. Starting Nov.8, nationals from these countries, which also include Slovakia, Denmark, Iceland, Andorra, Monaco and Liechtenstein, will be allowed to enter China for business, tourism, family visits, or transit …
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By Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -North Korea will back Russia until it achieves victory in the Ukraine war, Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said on Friday at talks in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “Our traditional, historically friendly relations, which have travelled the tested path of history, today … are rising to a …
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By Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI (Reuters) -New Delhi topped global pollution charts on Friday, partly due to revellers defying a ban on firecrackers to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. India’s national capital battles pollution each winter as cold air traps dust, emissions, and smoke from farm fires in the neighbouring states of Punjab …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A French man and a German man have been arrested for unauthorised entry to the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that Russia uses for space launches, Russian state media reported on Friday. RIA news agency quoted a Kazakh prosecutor as saying the pair were detained for one day and then removed from the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, in a Moscow meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, accused the United States and South Korea of plotting a nuclear strike against her country. She did not provide evidence to back her assertion, but spoke of regular consultations between Washington and Seoul at which …
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan cleared up and offices and financial markets re-opened on Friday after the powerful Typhoon Kong-rey swept through the island causing two deaths and snarling transport, as the remnant of the storm brushed the Chinese coast. Kong-rey slammed into Taiwan’s mountainous and sparsely populated east coast on Thursday afternoon, the largest storm by …
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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – At least seven people including five school students were killed and 23 injured in a blast in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, a police official said. “The target was a police van which was going to pickup a polio (vaccination) team,” Senior Superintendent of Police Rehmatullah told Reuters. One police officer was …
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