CHISINAU (Reuters) -Moldova’s pro-European ruling party will nominate financier Alexandru Munteanu to be the country’s new prime minister, the head of the party, Igor Grosu, said on social media on Tuesday. Munteanu, an economist who also founded an investment firm, has not previously held political office. He has worked outside the country for some 20 …
By Maggie Michael, Feras Dalatey, Ryan McNeill and Khalil Ashawi DHUMAIR, Syria -The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away in the remote desert, a Reuters investigation has found. The conspiracy by …
CAIRO (Reuters) -Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday, marking his first visit to Russia since Moscow’s ally President Bashar al-Assad was toppled by rebels led by Sharaa last year. The two leaders will discuss regional and international developments …
Syria’s Sharaa to meet Russia’s Putin on Wednesday, Syrian state news agency reports Read More »
(Reuters) -A Russian official said on Tuesday that work would begin this week to restore external power links to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, which has been running on emergency diesel generators for three weeks. Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia plant in the first weeks of Moscow’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Each side …
By Emma Farge, Olivia Le Poidevin and Michelle Nichols GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Israel will only allow half the agreed number of aid trucks into Gaza starting Wednesday, according to a note seen by Reuters and confirmed by the United Nations, in a setback to hopes food and supplies would be quickly ramped up to ease …
Israel cuts agreed aid into Gaza over slow release of hostage bodies Read More »
By Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday revoked the citizenship of Odesa’s mayor on the grounds that he also had a Russian passport, acting to end the tenure of a divisive figure who has run the Black Sea port city for 11 years. Hennadiy Trukhanov, 60, an elected …
Zelenskiy strips Odesa mayor of Ukrainian citizenship Read More »
By Elizabeth Pineau and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu promised on Tuesday to suspend a landmark pension reform until after the 2027 election, sacrificing one of President Emmanuel Macron’s legacy achievements to ensure the government’s survival. By bowing to pressure from leftist lawmakers who revile the 2023 reform, Lecornu has managed …
French PM to suspend Macron’s flagship pension reform Read More »
By Emilio Parodi MILAN (Reuters) -Italian prosecutors sought on Tuesday an 18-1/2-year prison sentence for former Atlantia CEO Giovanni Castellucci over the deadly 2018 collapse of a motorway bridge in the northwestern port city of Genoa. Prosecutors also sought prison terms ranging from two years and four months to 15-1/2 years for 55 of the …
(Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu on Tuesday proposed suspending President Emmanuel Macron’s landmark pension reform that raised the legal retirement age by two years to 64, as he sought cross-party support for his 2026 budget. Here are the main statements from Lecornu’s speech, as well as reactions from the opposition: SEBASTIEN LECORNU, PRIME MINISTER …
Reactions to French PM Lecornu’s pension reform suspension plan Read More »
(Reuters) -Hamas has informed mediators it will begin transferring bodies of four deceased Israeli hostages to Israel at 10 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Tuesday, an official involved in the operation told Reuters. Earlier, Israeli officials said the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt would stay closed at least through Wednesday and the …
Hamas to start handing over bodies of four Israeli hostages Tuesday night, official says Read More »
