By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi The decade-long relationship of a politician couple in the Indian state of West Bengal has hit rock bottom – and the headlines – after the wife switched to a rival party and the husband publicly threatened to divorce her. On Tuesday, Saumitra Khan, an MP from Prime Minister Narendra […]
US President Donald Trump has pardoned his former campaign manager Paul Manafort, ex-adviser Roger Stone and the father of Mr Trump’s son-in-law. Mr Manafort was convicted in 2018 in an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. Mr Trump had previously commuted the prison sentence of Mr Stone, who was convicted of […]
Coronavirus pandemic A Mexican nurse has become the first person in Latin America to receive a coronavirus jab when her country began its vaccination programme on Thursday. Mexico received an initial shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines the previous day. A short time later, Chile began administering the same vaccine, with Costa Rica to follow later on […]
By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co has halted production at one of its two car manufacturing plants in India, the carmaker said on Wednesday, a country where sales of its vehicles have been under pressure from competitors. The Japanese automaker has stopped producing cars at its plant in Greater Noida close […]
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Supreme Court on Wednesday started hearing petitions challenging Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s sudden dissolution of parliament and call for fresh elections, a move denounced by his opponents as unconstitutional. Oli’s decision, the culmination of months of political turmoil in the Himalayan country situated between China and India, has […]
By Aditi Shah, Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Cairn Energy has won an international arbitration case against the Indian government over a tax dispute, ending one of the country’s highest-profile disputes, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Cairn took the case to arbitration in 2015 to fight against a demand in […]
By Chen Lin, Aradhana Aravindan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – As Singapore prepares to roll out COVID-19 vaccinations its striking success in controlling the virus is making some question whether they should take the jabs. In a city-state where compliance with the authorities is generally high, some Singaporeans fear potential side effects – even if minimal – are not […]
By Susan Heavey, Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Americans were warned again on Tuesday not to travel for Christmas as the latest COVID-19 surge left hospitals struggling to find beds for the sick and political leaders imposed restrictions to try to curb new infections, making for a grim holiday season. A new, even more contagious variant of […]
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump granted a full pardon on Tuesday to George Papadopoulos, a former campaign aide who pleaded guilty as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Trump also pardoned Alex van der Zwaan, 36, the Dutch son-in-law of Russian billionaire German Khan. Van der […]
By Philip Blenkinsop, Guy Faulconbridge BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – France will reopen its borders to passengers from England on Wednesday, ending a blockade intended to stop the spread of a new coronavirus variant, but which has held up thousands of lorries before Christmas. Much of the world shut its borders to Britain after a significantly more transmissible mutated […]
