Reuters UK Top

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s military intelligence chief accused Russia on Tuesday of “mining” the cooling pond used to keep the reactors cool at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine’s south. The six-reactor complex, Europe’s biggest nuclear plant, has been under occupation since shortly after Moscow’s forces invaded in February last year. “…Most terrifying is that …

Ukraine spy chief accuses Russia of ‘mining’ cooling pond at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant Read More »

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s participation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has produced few benefits, Rome’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday, as his country faces a decision on whether to pull out of the deal. Italy in 2019 became the first and so far only G7 nation to have joined the hugely …

Italy gained little from Belt and Road deal with China – foreign minister Read More »

By Janis Laizans and Andrius Sytas TALLINN (Reuters) -Estonia’s parliament approved on Tuesday a law to legalise same-sex marriage, making it the first central European country to do so. Same-sex marriage is legal in much of western Europe but not in central European countries which were once under communist rule and members of the Moscow-led …

Estonia becomes first central European country to allow same-sex marriage Read More »

By Natasa Bansagi (Reuters) – A friend of one of the passengers on board the submersible vessel that went missing on a trip to explore the wreckage of the Titanic said that “every single minute” felt like hours as time ticked away to find them alive. Speaking from Svalbard in Norway on Tuesday, Jannicke Mikkelsen …

‘Every minute feels like hours’ says friend of man on missing Titanic sub Read More »

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has announced 218 million pounds ($279 million) to help fund research into greener air travel, its minister for industry and economic security Nusrat Ghani will announce at the Paris Airshow on Tuesday. The financial package is being provided jointly by government and industry and will help develop more carbon-efficient landing gear, …

Britain backs greener air travel with $280 million funding package Read More »

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s newly elected parliament on Tuesday voted in favour of National Coalition Party leader Petteri Orpo to become prime minister, as widely expected, ushering in a right-wing government and ending Social Democrat Sanna Marin’s rule. Orpo will lead a coalition of the conservative NCP, the nationalist Finns, the minority-language Swedish People’s Party …

Finland’s parliament backs Petteri Orpo as PM, replacing Sanna Marin Read More »