By Swati Bhat NEW DELHI (Reuters) – It is vital to increase quota resources for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before year-end, its chief, Kristalina Georgieva, said on Sunday, while urging members of the G20 bloc to deliver on a promise of $100 billion a year in climate funds. In a declaration at its summit …
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By Tom Balmforth and Gleb Garanich KYIV (Reuters) -Russia fired nearly three dozen drones at Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and the surrounding region for around two hours and debris falling across several city districts, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine’s air force said the military destroyed 26 out of …
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(Reuters) – Romania’s foreign ministry summoned the Russian charge d’affaires after the discovery on Romanian soil of new fragments of a drone similar to those used by the Russian military, the Agerpres website reported on Sunday. On Saturday, Romanian authorities found the second set of drone fragments to have crashed in the NATO member state …
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By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – When Mexican presidential contenders Claudia Sheinbaum and Xochitl Galvez entered politics at the start of the millennium, more than four in five senators in the country were men. Today, the majority are women. The rise of Sheinbaum, who was named on Wednesday as the ruling party’s candidate for …
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By Ivan Alvarado and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Viola remembers the terror of being naked in front of her captors, the blows to her body and the pain. Carlos recounts being barely able to breathe amid beatings that left his ribs broken. For Alejandra, some horrors she would rather not put into …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Police deployed water cannon to disperse thousands of climate activists protesting on a highway in the Netherlands on Saturday to demand an end to government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. More than 10,000 people marched along the A12 highway into The Hague, ignoring warnings from authorities not to block the …
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By Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces will continue through the onset of cold and wet weather later this year, even though it would become harder to fight, Kyiv’s intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said on Saturday. Ukraine launched a much-vaunted counteroffensive this summer that has retaken more than …
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(Reuters) – Russian air defence shot down three Ukrainian drones over Crimea, one in the northwest and two in the west of the peninsula, Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed head of the local administration, said on a post on Telegram on Saturday. Separately, Russia’s TASS news agency said the country’s defence ministry told reporters air defences …
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By Marek Strzelecki WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s biggest opposition grouping plans to kick-start the country’s lagging transition from coal if it wins next month’s tightly contested election, the party’s energy expert said. The country’s coal-dominated electricity mix translates into Europe’s highest power prices, while a heavy carbon footprint could in the longer run hamper its potential …
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By David Stanway and Riham Alkousaa (Reuters) -The world is not on target to curb global warming and more action is needed on all fronts, the United Nations warned on Friday, in the run-up to crucial international talks aimed at stemming the climate crisis. The Global Stocktake report, the latest warning from the U.N. about …
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