By Reuters Staff KYIV (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of Hungary and Ukraine were expected to meet in Kyiv on Wednesday for talks on repairing badly strained relations but Budapest said its diplomatic missions in the ex-Soviet republic had received threats of “bloodletting” violence. The two countries are at loggerheads over the right of some 150,000 […]
Anthony Zurcher North America reporter Impeachment of Donald Trump Donald Trump left Washington DC almost a week ago, but he continues to cast a long shadow over the Republican Party in Congress. In the first on-the-record test of support for conviction on impeachment charges that Trump incited his supporters to mount an insurrection at the […]
By Alasdair Pal, Saurabh Sharma NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Hundreds of police guarded the historic Red Fort in the heart of the Indian capital on Wednesday following violent clashes between farmers and authorities in which one person was killed and at least 80 injured. Tens of thousands of farmers, protesting against reforms of the agriculture sector […]
Coronavirus pandemic The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply. Pascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working “24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine”. He said production was “basically two months […]
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By Reuters Staff FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about administration plans to strengthen American manufacturing during a brief appearance in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for the first […]
Woman kicked by Russian policeman becomes protest symbol, seeks justice
By Reuters Staff MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian woman who has become a symbol of the heavy-handed way the authorities cracked down on anti-Kremlin protesters at the weekend after being kicked to the floor by a baton-wielding policeman says she wants justice. Slideshow ( 2 images ) Margarita Yudina, 54, was among tens of thousands of people […]
By Anthony Deutsch 3 MIN READ AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Netherlands braced on Tuesday for a fourth consecutive night of coronavirus anti-lockdown riots, with some shops boarding their windows and sending staff home early for safety. riots broke out across the country Dutch police detained more than 180 people on Monday night, when roaming groups […]
INDIA JANUARY 26, 20215:29 PMUPDATED 2 HOURS AGO By Devjyot Ghoshal, Adnan Abidi 4 MIN READ NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Thousands of Indian farmers protesting against agricultural reforms on Tuesday overwhelmed police and stormed into the historic Red Fort complex in New Delhi after tearing down barricades and driving tractors through roadblocks. A man holds a flag […]
By Costas Pitas 3 MIN READ LONDON (Reuters) – The death toll in Britain from the coronavirus pandemic passed 100,000 people on Tuesday as the government battled to speed up vaccination delivery and keep variants of the virus at bay. the U.K. than World War Two Many more deaths would follow before a vaccination programme […]